HOLY SPIRIT INCUBATOR

I have a very insightful man in my church at Landisville, Pete Payne, who more than a year ago became a part of our strategic planning process. At the time we were suffering greatly from mission drift, and too many of our people were not involved in a significant way in carrying out the vision. Pete, a retired marketing exec from Armstrong World Industries, was a firm advocate in strengthening internal communication and fostering internal dialogue between church members and leaders. He suggested I start an in-house blog for those purposes. Being a passionate and prolific blogger, it was a no-brainer for me. We launched in the spring of 2009, Thinking Out Loud About Landisville.

Recently we changed the blog to add a dimension of leadership training, as well as leadership dialogue. And to reinforce the idea that the Holy Spirit leads the Church of God of Landisville (not Pastor Steve or the Elders or a Council), we added the dimension of ideas God was using within our core leadership to help identify "what it is God is doing" so we, as a church, "can go do it with Him."

Thus, we started a successor blog called Holy Spirit Incubator. If you would like to observe (and maybe even contribute) to how one church goes about being an outward-focused church, I would invite you to check out this blog. A link is on OUTWARD FOCUSED's home page or you can click on to INCUBATOR.