by Shari Oosting | Feb 26, 2019 | Blog
This is Part 2 of a 2 part series by Ministry Incubators’ own Shari Oosting. You can find Part 1 here. Claudio Oliver, a Brazilian pastor and farmer, reflects on poverty and the nature of short-term mission trips. In reflecting on years spent working with homeless...
by Shari Oosting | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog
This is Part 1 of a 2 part series by Ministry Incubators’ own Shari Oosting. One of the great things about missional enterprise is how it provides an approach to wicked problems. By that, I simply refer to problems that are complex in nature, enduring over time,...
by Antonin Ficatier | Nov 7, 2018 | Blog
A cultural tsunami is currently storming through the church—and for the best! The name is Missional Entrepreneurship or Missional Innovation: a fancy name to describe what the church has been doing for centuries (think of the monks in European monastery who were...
by Kenda Creasy Dean | Sep 4, 2018 | Blog
I spent so long groping for the right words to describe “missional innovation” (I still don’t like the phrase) that it’s easy to feel like no one else in the church “speaks” this language. It goes by many handles: Christian social innovation, faith-based...
by Kenda Creasy Dean | Aug 29, 2018 | Blog
Christian social innovation, redemptive entrepreneurship, missional innovation, spiritual entrepreneurship – pick your handle – is no longer niche. It’s a full-blown, interfaith movement—and if you’re a Christian social innovator who is curious about...
by Ministry Incubators | Mar 13, 2018 | Blog
Need to kickstart a meeting, get a team into a creative frame of mind, or simply encourage your organization to think about what it takes to dramatically increase innovation? Invest 45 minutes to run a marshmallow challenge! We’ve just added this great resource...