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Hatchlings
Hatchlings is our blog dedicated to inspirational client stories and big ideas in ministry innovation. From astrophysics to farming to the church down the street, we believe that God-breathed, wild ideas can come from anywhere.
Blowing on Sails
I, like everyone, have spent much of the last couple of weeks talking about Alysa Liu. Alysa Liu is an American figure skater who recently won gold at the Winter Olympics in Milan. But it wasn’t her win that made her the only thing we all could talk about, it was how...
Solvitur Ambulando
Today (at writing, maybe not at reading) is Ash Wednesday. It is the beginning of the season of the liturgical year that is most antagonistic towards the type of energetic, innovative, optimistic, forward-driving work that we do best at Ministry Incubators. Our work...
Stinky Pete
My children recently “borrowed” (stole) a copy of a storybook version of Toy Story 2 from a friend. They are obsessed. I was reading it to them for the 30th time, when a thought caught me so off guard that I nearly teared up. If you aren’t familiar, the basic story...
Climbing the Roof
On Sunday, my husband sat next to me in church as our pastor gave a sermon on Luke 5:17-26, the story of the paralytic man being lowered through the roof to see Jesus. He leaned over and whispered, “I wonder if there were some other group of friends in the next town...
Epiphany
This year, I had the joy of spending the holidays at home with my twin 3 year olds, and the funny thing about 3 year olds is that their sense of time is a bit…wobbly. Tomorrow, and next month, and never are all kind of the same. Yesterday and last year blur together....
Scratching the Surface
In 2003, two boys emerged from the woods into the general store of a small town called Vernon, in British Columbia. The boys, both teenagers, and one severely emaciated, claimed to have been raised in the wilderness (“the bush”) outside the town, with no access to...