Are You Leaving Youth Ministry?

Anna (not her real name) is a fellow lifer in youth ministry. We’ve been friends for more than two decades. Last summer over ice cream, I was telling her about Ministry Incubators. I couldn’t tell if I heard a twinge of betrayal in her voice when she said: “I just...

January 16, 2016

The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is hosting a conversation for church leaders (lay and clergy) ready to strategize new ways to do church. There is little question these are challenging days for the church. Programs that always seemed to work...

The Try Pie Factor

Congratulations to Aquayla, one of the five original Try Pie teens, on her high school graduation this Spring and for her full-time work at a care facility in our community! When asked what job skills she gained in Try Pie that she has taken into her new job, Aquayla...

The Princeton Farminary in the Press

Ministry Incubator’s affiliate Dr. Nate Stucky and the Princeton Farminary has been featured in TakePart, an online news & lifestyle magazine and social action platform. Nate, the director of the Princeton Farminary and an early Hatchaton participant, has...

February 25-27, 2016

Join us for a Hatch-a-thon on February 25-27, 2016 at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. Join others who are nursing an entrepreneurial idea for youth ministry or the church in general, and who want to “test drive” the idea...