Date: August 26, 2021
This week, we are looking at the new programs TryTank is launching to decentralize our efforts to make our church more innovative. Yesterday we looked at our experiment managers. Today, let’s explore our new effort to create Innovation Hubs.
If there’s one thing I have learned in my time doing this work, it is that innovation is very much alive and well in our Church. It’s just hidden from sight! Unfortunately, this means that for others who may want to try new things, it becomes a lonely road.
To help with this, TryTank will be partnering with congregations that want to be an Innovation Hub for their area. In a very practical way, this means that these congregations can be gathering points and conversation partners for others. We will support them with training and knowledge sharing to facilitate the efforts. We hope to have dozens of these innovation hubs that can help normalize the act of trying new things. And, since failing is a normal part of trying, to fail along the way.
To me, what’s super exciting about this is that we might open the floodgates to new ideas that we might otherwise not have found. And that we’ll be creating a small army of innovators and “try-ers” in the church. If you know of a congregation who might be interested, please send them my way.
The Rev. Lorenzo Lebrija
Director, TryTank