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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. 

Kenda & Kat on the Podcast!

Kenda & Kat on the Podcast!

This week, we at Ministry Incubators continued our conversation with Ministry Architects. On a follow-up episode after Kerwin introduced our friends at Ministry Architects to what makes a good idea (and what to do with one), Ministry Incubators co-founder Kenda Dean,...

Smelling God

Smelling God

Our senses of smell are much better than we think they are. Humans can smell an odor-producing compound that exists at a level of 2 parts per billion of the air around them. Humans can actually smell at lower densities than dogs can.1 We just don’t know it.  I was...

Proximity Matters

Proximity Matters

I was leading an on-site recently, where we were talking about nurturing the lives of children in congregations, when a participant reflected that “We often make these broad statements about wanting to bring up young people and then never get to know them; proximity...

Ministry Incubators on the Ministry Architects Podcast

Ministry Incubators on the Ministry Architects Podcast

Ministry Incubators is on the Ministry Architects Podcast! Ministry Architects is a group of coaches, consultants, and experts in church health, systems, and staffing. Ministry Incubators and Ministry Architects have long shared staff, resources, leadership (even a...

This One Cool Trick

This One Cool Trick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBiXQ-jjCcs Who hasn’t been seduced by a container store? Or put their hopes in a planner? Who hasn’t hoped that maybe it would be this supplement, this productivity tool, this online class that would provide the change we’re looking...

Growing Into

Growing Into

When I was in middle school, I remember thinking I didn’t feel like I thought “like a teenager,” but instead that I thought like a child some percent of the time, and an adult some percent of the time, and what people were reading as adolescence was just the average...