The Hatch-a-thon Experience: Rev. Laura Bratton

Guest post by the Rev. Laura Bratton, senior pastor of Laurens Road United Methodist Church in Greenville, South Carolina and Executive Director of Ubi Global. What in the world is a Hatchathon? I asked myself the same question when I learned about the Hatchathon...

Meet a Missional Entrepreneur

I sure wish this were the church doing this. But props to Chad Hauser, the visionary chef behind Cafe Momentum in Dallas: Café Momentum, a Dallas-based restaurant and culinary training facility, transforms young people’s lives by providing a positive environment in...

People Who Inspire Us #4

Marlon Hall: Storyteller, filmmaker, cultural architect, and founder of The Awakenings Movement, a grassroots community of social visionaries and culture shapers in Houston, Detroit, and Nairobi. Hall serves on the faculty of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity...
Is a Hatch-a-thon Right for You?

Is a Hatch-a-thon Right for You?

  We get that question all the time. Here’s how to tell: You have a sense that “the angels are stirring the waters” (John 5:1-9)—maybe in your church, in your life, in your community, or just in your stomach–and you wonder if God might be nudging you to...
Is a Hatch-a-thon Right for You?

What In the World Is a Hatch-a-thon?

Okay… so I might have made that word up. But it seemed apt. You’ve probably heard about business incubators and student entrepreneur clubs that sponsor “hackathons”—those super-intense 24 hour periods where tech-savvy young entrepreneurs gather, and with “their powers...