In the wake of the last few years of social justice work characterized by the rise of Black Lives Matter and the #metoo movement, the term "intersectionality" has risen in prominence. If this term is ...  Read More

What does making a safe space for young adults in the church look like? This is an interesting question for churches to consider. When this project started, the churches that applied and were accepted...  Read More

As our churches move into Pentecost and to the end of this project in innovation with Pivot NW, it is a good time to return to the most basic of questions: what, then, is the nature of the Church?  So...  Read More

One phenomenon that Pivot NW has been watching closely across the last few years is 20-somethings joining the church council.Out of the 20-or-so churches that we've worked with, the number of 20-somet...  Read More

One of the early defining questions of this project was whether to use the term Millenial or young adult when referring to our target demographic of 23 to 29-year-olds. We even floated 20-somethings a...  Read More

Thumbnail and main image: Sermon on the Mount by Carl Bloch (1877), Public Domain One of the first things we did when we started this project was to dream up an application that would be short enough ...  Read More

If you're anything like me, you might find the word "ideation" intimidating. What is it anyway? And "ideation lab?" I know most of us haven't had to set foot in a lab since high school or maybe colleg...  Read More

Attached below is the statement from Pivot NW concerning the George Floyd protests. Along with the many congregations we work with we pray for our communities and especially with and for our brothers ...  Read More

Early on in the life of this grant we found ourselves giving general advice as to how to spend some of the considerable fund we had to give out. We had told our tier one churches that we were going to...  Read More

In the Fall of 2019 Pivot NW attempted to host a dinner and panel discussion concerning Young Adult Hospitality. Our goal was simply to hear from voices in church and in the hospitality industry that ...  Read More

***As of 10/29/19 we have cancelled this event due to a lower than anticipated interest. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We’d love to hear what of this idea was interesting t...  Read More

Click below to hear about research and innovation with the Pivot NW team this fall.http://archive.benchmarkemail.com/Pivot-Northwest/newsletter/Fall-2019-Digest ......  Read More