by Kat Bair | Jun 10, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
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 | May 27, 2026 | Client Stories, Blog, Big Ideas
When I was in my late 20’s, a bunch of my college friends were getting married, and a strange thing kept happening at the weddings. I was working as a youth pastor at the time. For a lot of my friends, who hand flown from our alma mater in Ohio landed in impossibly...
by Kat Bair | Apr 23, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
Last week, I sat in a meeting with a group of leaders at Brite Divinity School. and we discussed strategy for a new initiative focused, in part, on helping students clarify what they hoped to get from seminary, and prepare them for what they would do after. Dr. Callid...
by Kat Bair | Feb 27, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
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...
by Kat Bair | Nov 13, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
Ministry Incubators is part of the larger Ministry Architects umbrella. While we both have some unique DNA (we like to think of Incubators as the quirky little sister of eldest daughter Ministry Architects), there are enough shared values and understanding that we can...
by Kat Bair | Sep 4, 2025 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
I was talking to a client from a small denominational tradition the other day about how to best support congregations struggling to keep up with their needed fundraising. She mentioned, in particular, that these congregations were sometimes extremely burdened by their...
