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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.
The Hatch-a-thon Experience: Rev. Laura Bratton
Guest post by the Rev. Laura Bratton, senior pastor of Laurens Road United Methodist Church in Greenville, South Carolina and Executive Director of Ubi Global. What in the world is a Hatchathon? I asked myself the same question when I learned about the Hatchathon...
Meet a Missional Entrepreneur
I sure wish this were the church doing this. But props to Chad Hauser, the visionary chef behind Cafe Momentum in Dallas: Café Momentum, a Dallas-based restaurant and culinary training facility, transforms young people’s lives by providing a positive environment in...
People Who Inspire Us #4
Marlon Hall: Storyteller, filmmaker, cultural architect, and founder of The Awakenings Movement, a grassroots community of social visionaries and culture shapers in Houston, Detroit, and Nairobi. Hall serves on the faculty of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity...
Is a Hatch-a-thon Right for You?
We get that question all the time. Here’s how to tell: You have a sense that “the angels are stirring the waters” (John 5:1-9)—maybe in your church, in your life, in your community, or just in your stomach--and you wonder if God might be nudging you to jump...
What In the World Is a Hatch-a-thon?
Okay… so I might have made that word up. But it seemed apt. You’ve probably heard about business incubators and student entrepreneur clubs that sponsor “hackathons”—those super-intense 24 hour periods where tech-savvy young entrepreneurs gather, and with “their powers...
People Who Inspire Us #3
PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE US – We think they’ll maximize your creativity, because they sure do a number on ours To help inspire you, we are posting a list of a few of the people who inspire us. This is where we really need a massive Google doc, because you have your...