Sabbatical Sit Down: Bryan Mincks

I traveled south into the exotic land of “Iowa” to meet with Bryan Mincks. Bryan is pastor of Iron Ridge Church in the small town of Waukon, IA. He helped to plant the church with his father Marlan, a national church planting leader. Bryan highlighted a journey of a lot of ups and downs forContinue reading “Sabbatical Sit Down: Bryan Mincks”

Sabbatical Sit Down: Mark Bjorlo

When we think about church (or most other subjects), we tend to think about what we are familiar with, what we experience regularly, what we know. It isn’t often that we expand our perspective to see a bigger picture-there are others out there, in similar settings like ours, but they have a very different wayContinue reading “Sabbatical Sit Down: Mark Bjorlo”

Be More Musk-y

My church is currently going through a vision-casting process. The church has been growing steadily for 3 years and has been near-capacity on Sunday mornings for around a year, and the youth and children’s programs have begun to fill the spaces available to them. Some solution needs to be found in order to continue toContinue reading “Be More Musk-y”