President’s Corner

Dear friends, Welcome to the first edition of our new digital newsletter, “On Q”! Our title is a play on words with the idiom “on cue” which means, “an indication that the time has come.” In the performing arts, actors are expected to pay attention to the cues so that they can deliver their lines “on cue,” at just the right time. At Q Place we believe that the time has come for a new paradigm shift in evangelism, so that all Christians can partner with God in what he’s doing in the world to redeem it. As a ministry we...Read more …

Get Pumped: Spiritual Fitness at the YMCA

Deanna had a question. As she filled out the paperwork needed to volunteer at her local YMCA, she wondered about the first part of the Y’s mission statement: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all Clearly, the YMCA does well with physical fitness, and its after-school programs help build minds. But Deanna’s question was this: What does the YMCA do to help people build spiritual fitness? In many local YMCAs, the answer is, unfortunately, not much. Deanna’s question pointed her to an opportunity. As she watched people coming through...Read more …
Q Place Goes to Michigan

Q Place Goes to Michigan

Detroit area workshop yields a record-breaking response. When Jeff Klein, Midwest regional leader, stood up at the front of the Highland Park Baptist Church meeting room, he was amazed to see table after table of people packed in, eager to hear about the Arts of Spiritual Conversations. More than 200 people had turned out for the workshop, most of them pastors and leaders representing thirty-five churches in the Detroit area. Over the course of the previous week, sign-ups kept rolling in, and so many people came on the day of the workshop that they had to move the walls and...Read more …
Kodak Lesson

Kodak Lesson

An important message for the church We don’t hear much about the Kodak company any more. For well over 100 years, Kodak dominated the film scene and owned 89% of the market share in their industry. Indeed, its name was synonymous with pictures, photography, and film. Everyone wanted to have a Kodak moment. But over the last twenty years, the Kodak story has changed dramatically, a giant casualty in the wake of digital photography. Ironically, it was a Kodak employee who invented the first digital camera. In 1975 when Steve Sasson brought his innovative new idea to his superiors, they...Read more …