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Fresh Expression Incubators

Monthly workshops that spark imagination and equip you to design and launch Fresh Expressions of Church uniquely shaped for your community

Discover. Design. Do

Have an idea for the kind of Fresh Expression of Church that you'd like to explore, but aren't sure how to begin?

Maybe you've wondered what church could look like on a sports field, in a neighborhood café, around the arts, outdoors, or another everyday space where people already gather. There's something powerful about dreaming alongside others who share your passion while learning from practitioners who have already blazed a trail. Together you'll sharpen your vision, ask good questions, and begin shaping a mission that fits your unique community.

Our 2.5-hour Fresh Expressions Incubators are practical, hands-on, theme specific workshops designed to help you move from "What if?" to "Let's begin."

During the Incubator you'll:

Discover
Discern the people and places God is already inviting you toward. Learn how to identify your ripe opportunities, listen well to your community, and recognize where relationships are already taking root.

Design
Shape a missional initiative that fits your unique context. Explore proven principles, hear stories from leaders who are already doing this work, and develop an approach that feels authentic, not copied from someone else's ministry.

Do
Leave with clear next steps. Together we'll identify your first experiments, anticipate common challenges, and build a simple action plan you can begin putting into practice right away.

Each Incubator focuses on a specific kind of mission initiative—such as cafés, college campuses, the arts, recovery, recreation, the outdoors, senior living, and more—so you'll receive practical guidance from people who have actually started Fresh Expressions in that space.

Bring your curiosity, your questions, or even just the spark of an idea. You'll leave with greater clarity, practical tools, encouragement, and the confidence to take your first faithful step.

Next Meeting: Special Needs Fresh Expressions, Wednesday, October 14, 12-2:30pm ET

Upcoming Streams:

Special Needs

Fresh Expressions with the Disability Community is an incubator for those who feel called to cultivate accessible, relationship-centered spiritual communities with people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, caregivers, siblings, and families.

Together, we will explore how to listen before launching, recognize and remove barriers to belonging, build partnerships and shared leadership, and discern faithful next steps. This incubator moves beyond asking, “How can we include people in what we already do?” and instead asks, “How might God be inviting us to become a community where every person is known, welcomed, needed, able to contribute, and able to grow in faith?”



God is already at work in the lives of people who have too often been overlooked, underestimated, or asked to adapt themselves to spaces not designed with them in mind. The invitation is to join God there—and to discover that the church is more fully the church when every member is welcomed, needed, and able to share their gifts.