by Kat Bair | Jul 9, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
Earlier this week, I spoke to a close friend of mine, Heather, who serves in jurisdictional youth ministry. She’s leading a youth mission trip this week. Since it’s a jurisdictional trip, the teenagers on the trip are from a diverse swath of congregations and...
by Kat Bair | Jul 1, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
A few months ago, I was invited to be on the Ministry Architects Podcast. I’ve gotten to chat with them before, and Renee and I have been on projects together so this wasn’t a huge surprise, but the topic was. They wanted to talk about this blog. In particular, the...
by Kat Bair | Jun 25, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
Ahead of the Trinity Test, the first test of a nuclear weapon, there was serious (and not unfounded) concern among scientists that the bomb would ignite the nitrogen in the atmosphere, which would set off a chain reaction that would ignite all of the air on earth....
by Kat Bair | Jun 15, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
A lot of words have been said about parent’s love for their children, and the way that love changes them. All of that is true. What I’ve been thinking about this past week is about whether it is our love for them that changes us, or their love for us. When my...
by Kat Bair | Jun 10, 2026 | Big Ideas, Client Stories, Blog
Always Weres and Always Will Bes These past two weeks, we have been talking about Not Anymores, people who were raised in or around the church, who were likely baptized, confirmed, who may have a lot of positive memories of church, but who just… don’t go anymore. The...
by Kat Bair | Jun 3, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas
The Empty Restaurant When people talk about church growth, they tend to imagine their role is to spread the Gospel to people who haven’t heard it yet. Their goal is to practice Evangelism in the most literal of senses, spreading the Good News as news. Where I live, we...
