by Kenda Creasy Dean | Sep 29, 2015 | Blog
Thanks to entrepreneurial youth minister Matt Overton, for digging up this prayer – it says better than I can what I hope God will do with Ministry Incubators. And with me. (To join the entrepreneurial youth ministry conversation, go here). The Drake Prayer Disturb...
by Kenda Creasy Dean | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog
It’s a pendulum swing: the self-sustaining fellowship of believers, and the practice of begging—two time-worn ways we have learned to support ministry. Whenever we get seduced by the risks of one, somebody shoves the pendulum in the opposite direction. A quick...
by Ministry Incubators | Aug 17, 2015 | Blog, Partners
Ministry Incubators’ affiliate Nate Stuckey and the Farminary at Princeton Seminary just released a video about this exciting new project. Check out the video below and learn more about the Farminary here. The Farminary at Princeton Seminary from Jordan Brady...
by Kenda Creasy Dean | Aug 14, 2015 | Blog
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...
by Ministry Incubators | Aug 2, 2015 | Blog
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...