6 Greatest Great Ideas – 2021-2022

As a welcome gift to ConNext Summit 2022, The Ministry Lab is happy to share our picks of the Greatest Great Ideas from the past 12 months. We chose these particular Great Ideas based on the sub-themes of this year's Summit. You can find…

Six New Things – Week of September 19, 2022

Sorry this is a day late! (My spouse's minor medical emergency threw off the last three days; he's finally on the mend!) We kick-off LatinX Heritage Month with some book lists and reorient relationships with neighbors, society, enemies, creation,…

Bridging Division with Art

Thanks to Glenda Schnirring of St Philip's Lutheran Church, Hastings, MN and the St Paul Area Synod for sharing this Great Idea! In January 2022, St Philip's received grant funds from the St Paul Area Synod's Gleaning from the Harvest grant…

Six New Things – Week of September 12, 2022

Jeremiah's call to repentance (RCL for this past Sunday) and 9/11 remembrances, have inspired resources that ground us in Divine Love and renewed commitments to (re-)turn to right relationships with God, creation, one another, and 'things'. ONE Start…

Addressing the Environment’s ‘Voter Turnout Problem’

Thanks to Andrew Hartley at the United Methodist Church's Creation Justice Movement for generating this Great Idea! Andrew Hartley writes, "Even though we adopt environmentally responsible [personal] habits, America and the world need to…

Six New Things – Week of September 05, 2022

With so much happening at The Ministry Lab and so many great resources just emerging, we can't resist sending out a post this week. Especially as so many resources resonate with our Belonging: Welcome Wellbeing series. We hope you'll join…

HALLOWEEN COSTUME DRIVE

Thanks to Jennifer Enriquez for sharing this Great Idea via Building Faith. Jennifer Enriquez outlines how a long-standing relationships with a shelter for women and children escaping domestic abuse put them in an ideal position to provide…

‘Play Church’ + Sensory Space = Worship & Wonder

Thanks to Cindy Merten at Children's Ministry network and Hope Hutchison at Richfield United Methodist Church for sharing these two worship-space related Great Ideas! Cindy Merten cites the CRC article Grant Makes Way for Sacred Play as inspiration…