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  • Under the Microscope: Are Your Advent Traditions Still Meaningful?

    by Meghan Hatcher At the United Methodist church where I grew up, the season of Advent can’t happen without the annual live nativity. Every year the same wooden frame, with last year’s hay still clinging to it, is set up ...

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    5 Questions to Ask When Determining Goals

    Stephen Ingram Stephen is a 25+ year youth ministry veteran. His books include Hollow Faith: How Andy Griffith, Facebook, and the American Dream Neutered the Gospel, ExtraOrdinary Time: 365 Ordinary Moments with an Anything But Ordinary God; and Organic Student ...

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    Ready, Set, Goals…

    Rev. Robert Sturdivant Robert is the Minister of Students at Trinity United Methodist Church in Birmingham, AL. Robert has been working with middle school and high school students for over 14 years, 13 of which at Trinity UMC. Robert grew ...

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    Understanding Your Context

    Kat Bair Kat Bair is a coach with Ministry Incubators and newsletter editor as well as a full-time youth pastor. She is a graduate of Austin Seminary through the Center for Youth Ministry Training and began her innovation work as ...

    2 months ago
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    Under the Microscope: Starting Small

    by: Meghan Hatcher The kickoff of a new academic year represents a programmatic re-set in most churches. As kids return to school and fall activities ramp up, each September brings immense shifts in the dynamics, participants, and feel of a ...

    2 months ago
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    Innovation Resources

    Don’t Launch a New Ministry This Fall, Prototype It

    by Meghan Hatcher Meghan is the director of the Innovation Laboratory at CYMT. She holds degrees in journalism; sustainable development and applied sociology; and a Master of Divinity. Meghan has served diverse faith communities through pastoral leadership, youth ministry, new ...

    3 months ago
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    Under the Microscope: What Trees Teach Us About Listening

    by: Lindsey Johnson In kindergarten, you learn about trees. My six-year-old son just wrapped up his first year of school and, on the last day, his backpack came home full of school projects that accumulated in his cubby over the ...

    4 months ago
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    Under the Microscope: Innovation + Frustration They don’t have to go hand in hand.

    by Meghan Hatcher I've been where you are. One of the reasons I’m so compelled by the work we’re doing at the Innovation Lab is because I’ve personally sat where many of our Lab participants sit. When I was in ...

    4 months ago
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    Under the Microscope: Your Assumptions Might be an Innovation Roadblock

    By Meghan Hatcher When I talk with ministry leaders who are applying to participate in the Lab’s cohorts, they often tell me about their innovative ministry ideas. I love hearing what they’re dreaming about, but I’m quick to tell leaders ...

    5 months ago
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    Under the Microscope: Measuring Faithfulness, Not Success

    By Meghan Hatcher Meghan is the director of the Innovation Laboratory at CYMT. She holds degrees in journalism; sustainable development and applied sociology; and a Master of Divinity. Meghan has served diverse faith communities through pastoral leadership, youth ministry, new ...

    6 months ago
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    Creating a Culture of Prototyping

    by Andrew Mochrie Andrew is the leader of the Theology Together Program at CYMT as well as a former Innovation Lab Cohort Participant. For more information on our Innovation Lab Cohort Program (which is registering new cohorts now) CLICK HERE. ...

    7 months ago
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    Innovation Tips From The Trenches

    by Rev. Stephanie Dodge Steph is a United Methodist Senior Pastor as well as a former Innovation Lab Cohort Participant. For more information on our Innovation Lab Cohort Program (which is registering new cohorts now) CLICK HERE. In 2016, Glendale ...

    7 months ago
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    A Response to Andy Root’s “The Church After Innovation”

    by Dr. Andrew Zirschky Starting in the 1990s, a focus on innovation and particularly disruptive innovation began to take hold in business schools and large companies worldwide. In the past decade, that interest has spread to the Church and to ...

    8 months ago
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    Our Obsession with Problem-Solving is a Problem for Ministry

    By Meghan Hatcher The first step in product thinking, as Nikkel Blaase writes in an article for the Interaction Design Foundation, is to “determine the problem that your users are looking to solve.” When done well, determining a user’s problem ...

    8 months ago
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    Innovations that Transform: 3 Strategies for Creating More Adaptable Ministries

    Innovation enacted with intention can transform people’s lives. Consider an example from the medical field: In the early 1990s laparoscopic surgery became commonplace and today accounts for the majority of abdominal surgeries, generally resulting in shorter recovery times, reduced pain, ...

    2 years ago
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    Innovation Resources

    Innovating Programs for Today's Teens – Where to start?

    The Need for Innovation At some point in this history of the modern church, the terms “youth group” and “youth ministry” became indistinguishable from one another. Although we’ve all seen a variety of programs and models for ministering to young ...

    4 years ago
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    Practical Youth Ministry

    CYMT Partners with Texas Methodist Foundation to Expand Innovation Labs in Youth Ministry

    The Center for Youth Ministry Training awarded $220,000 grant from the Texas Methodist Foundation for the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry The Center for Youth Ministry Training (CYMT) has been awarded a $220,00 grant from the Texas Methodist Foundation for ...

    5 years ago
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    CYMT Innovation Lab Announces 10 Lead Innovators and Partner Congregations

    CYMT Innovation Laboratory Announces 10 Partner Congregations The Center for Youth Ministry Training’s Innovation Laboratory, made possible with funding from the Lilly Endowment, has selected 10 partner churches to participate in the Innovation Lab. Each of these churches and their ...

    5 years ago
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    CYMT is Awarded $1.1 Million Grant from the Lilly Endowment for the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry

    The Center for Youth Ministry Training is excited to announce receiving a $1.1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment for the Innovation Laboratory for Youth Ministry. This grant will empower CYMT to create a research-based incubator for innovation in youth ...

    6 years ago
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