by Kat Bair | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog, Client Stories
“The trick is take being unserious very seriously” 1 Let me tell you a little about Kelly’s Mermaid Institute for Not Being Too Cool. Kelly is a middle school girl, who, on a trip with her family, wound up having some downtime in the hotel where they were staying. Her...
by Kat Bair | May 19, 2025 | Client Stories, Blog
One of my toddlers insists on coming to church with me. The church my family attends has a nursery that’s open throughout the service, but, increasingly often, one of my toddlers clings to me and says she wants to go to “big church.” I’m lucky enough to be home with...
by Kat Bair | Feb 12, 2025 | Client Stories, Blog, Big Ideas
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...
by Kat Bair | Nov 25, 2024 | Blog, Big Ideas, Client Stories
This week, we’re continuing our Havruta series on how to most faithfully engage with and learn from those who push back on, doubt, and detract from your ideas. These can be volunteers, lay leaders, parents of young people you work with, investors, etc. Anyone who has...
by Kat Bair | Nov 6, 2024 | Blog, Client Stories
When I met Mike and Jeannie Norris, they were the lay leader and finance chair, respectively, of a rural, small town church. It was a healthy, happy church with Sunday morning services with live music and preaching, board meetings, coffee and donuts after, a monthly...
by Kat Bair | Jun 5, 2024 | Blog, Client Stories
This past weekend, some of my colleagues at Ministry Incubators and I had the pleasure of kicking off a series of on-site gatherings for the Compelling Preaching program in the Mountain Sky Conference of the United Methodist Church. As we got to a section of the...
