About

StoryConnect works to Unleash the Latent Time, Talent, and Treasure (the Latent Love) that's inside each of us wherever we live, work, play, and for whom our hearts break.

The framework is networks.

Again, "the main actor on the stage of lasting cultural change is the dense network".

We catalyze, densify and interconnect network leaders for scalable movement-like social change.

And it all starts with you, transforming through healing love and Unleashing it, living out your highest and best roles.

We have at our disposal more resources than any civilization has had in the history of the world. We don't have a resource problem. We have a Connection problem.

"We Need More Connectors Connecting"

- Ben O'Dell, Associate Director of Partnership Center for US Department of Health and Human Services

Let's Connect. Let's Do This.

The Story

You were born looking for someone looking for you. That continues to this day.

We live in the Greatest Love Story in the midst of the Fiercest War. Over our lifespan we've collected and embodied corrosive lies and liberating truths. The lies you believe hurt you and hurt others. The truths you believe free you and heal others.

Here's a truth. You are Good.

When we exist-in and co-create habitats that reinforce goodness, souls heal and thrive. Love. Peace.

In habitats that reinforce the opposite, souls whither and contort. War. Pain.

The Story of Life Frees Us. You are Loved, BeLoved, and Loveable. You are Good. And Your Goodness is needed.

We help co-create habitats that help souls heal so that our liberation liberates others. It's not easy. We've heard it said from generals that "infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars". For the Greatest Love Story to win, our logistics, strategy, tactics, and execution have to increase in excellence. And all at the speed of trust. We must believe it's possible, do our part, and do it together. For freedom. For Love. Until the World Knows.

Meet the Team

Founder/Chief Connector

Paul Hemminger

My story is one of 'curious connector' focused on social good. I work hard at being grounded, present, and relaxed as Beloved son, with most important roles as husband and father to 3. Then I seek to overflow and leverage my experience to bring love and healing into the world. Icons below expose different aspects of my life and design.

Barn-Lifters/Rope-Holders

Partners and Teammates

Click here to learn about StoryConnect's barn-lifting and rope-holding partners and teammates. Without them we can't build bridges, fill gaps, connect resources, build collective impact, increase capacity, Unleash Latent Love, alleviate suffering, none of it. These generous folks make it happen. Click here to explore partnering.

Explore here

Maybe You?

If you are drawn to this work, let's explore. You may care about a certain cause, your community, or the interdependent healing and flourishing of a whole region. You may want to take a tiny-step up a low-grade on-ramp, or you may want to drop your nets, jump into the deep end, and climb the high-grade. Maybe you are being invited. Let's figure it out.

The Board

President

Teddy Brown, BA

Teddy is a soulful urban renewalist, committed to the long, slow, and authentic transformation of suffering spaces through real relationships. Ideas, longing, and tension whittle his life to lead as a truth-telling comrade.

Secretary

Sarah Linhardt, MSW/LSW

Sarah is a kind, smart, and resilient champion for the lowly and lonely. Highly attuned to effective care at all levels, Sarah brings a Daytonian purview to alleviating suffering. She is an open-handed skeptic who curates questions and community for healing.

Treasurer

Tom Porto, CPA

Tom is a steady, reliable, and experienced organizational and financial leader . Tom brings a deep conviction for connection-based reformation of the Body through a historical lens. Tom longs for all to experience enchanted reality.

Other teammates

These teammates fuel connection.

Spiritual Groundedness

TBD

Monthly Check-In

Focuses on Belovedness and Stewarding

Tech Operations and Opportunities

TBD

Weekly Check-In

Project-based

Communications

TBD

Bi-weekly Check-In

Challenges

Join the Team

Missional Volunteer:

What do you want to do, are good at, and want to accomplish? Let's explore. Fill out this form or email me.

Fill a Need Volunteer: Fill Out This Form

Organizing and Administrative:
- Events, back-end systems, gatherings, you name it.
Regional Mobilizers, and Facilitators: Churches, Causes, and Communities
Tech: top-notch systems, workflows, liaison with big tech, and troubleshooting
Storytelling and Art: Design, Video, Animation, Podcast, Writing, Copy Editing, etc.
Speaking and Facilitation: Presentations, Groups, etc.

Part/Full-Time Worker: Net-Dropper

Friend, if you're called, you're called. I was called to drop my nets and I've rarely looked back. I was designed for this work and you might be too. The invitation can only come from God, and often is facilitated by people. Imagine if Simon and Andrew said no and missed out on literally the grandest adventure anyone could ask for? Connect with me or fill out this form to explore what this all means. God is abundant.

Team-Mate: Fill Out This Form

Connect with me to explore our overlapping missions. We'll solidify a rhythm of value-added connections and explore working together.

Partner:

Do you want to fuel this work through partnership? Click here or connect with me to explore partnership options.

Logo Explanation

Your dot is the culmination of your story. Moment-by-moment, size represents levels of freedom, capacity to love, peace, etc. Color represents however you define it. We seek to understand, accept and grow our dot until we have nothing to hide, prove, or fear.

Lines are connections between dots. Dot composition has everything to do with how we perceive the line-moments with others, past and present.

Dots are healed as we "Gain God's Perspective" of dots and lines, stories and connections. We can help each other analyze and find truth. We can speak Love and perspective over those experiences. We can help some lines fade away and some lines thicken. We can help find new dots to connect with to help dots grow. We can build teams of dots and design gatherings to thicken lines. We can connect a team of teams to help life-giving relationship flow fast through an inter-connected network. We can help conflict lines smoothen and thicken. As our dots grow, we have capacity to help other dots grow.

Hurt people, hurt people. Healing people, heal people.

Let's Do This.

Until the World Knows,

I often signature email with this phrase or just "Until,".

Imagine it's evening at your home. A hellish intruder, pure evil, broke in and vowed "I will torture and kill your loved ones in front of you in the most gruesome ways imaginable... and then I'll do it to you." As evil chases down your family, pure Love peacefully walks in the door and says, "sir, no, do it to me." You and your whole family watch. Evil walks out.

Three hours later Pure Love walks back in.

I am not certain, but am convinced that The Christ willingly suffered and sacrificed his life to bust open the bottom of Hell... for you. Just like the above narrative.

When the people of this world Love each other with such abandon, the World Will Know that pure Love, in the man of Jesus the Christ is who he says he is. God Loves You. Fiercely. Eternally. Forever. And with a perpetual Tender Gaze.

"The world will know I have come when they LOVE EACH OTHER." This effort, at it's core, is to help us Love ourselves, each other, and a hurting world to the same degree.

Friend, connection with that Love is a question away. "Are you real? You must know everything about me. Do you really Love me?" If you've never asked, give it a try.

Until the World Knows. "Until,"