by Michael Bayne | Feb 12, 2014 | family ministry, leadership, Orange, volunteers
You will always need more staff. The problem comes in funding staff! Some of you right now have a list of people you want to pay but you just can’t find money in the budget to make the move. Early on I learned that I had to find ways to build a staff before I...
by Michael Bayne | Oct 18, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry, leadership
It was such a honor to be here at the D6 Conference and get to hear so many great leaders talk about how the church can better partner with parents. If you want to check out ideas that were shared today at the conference check out the hash-tag #D62013! One of my...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 7, 2011 | leadership, youth ministry
Head to any conference, listen to conversations around you, and you will soon discover that tons of senior pastors and student pastors have chaotic relationships. Sure they love each other and need each other but they often find themselves butting heads....
by Michael Bayne | Jan 12, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
You never know where you are going to be inspired. This week inspiration came from my daughters and their friends in our neighborhood. We didn’t quite get the amount of snow we wanted but what did the girls do…they made the most of what they had. They...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 28, 2010 | family ministry, Orange week 2.0, youth ministry
ORANGE WEEK is here and for the first few days I am going to talk about the RED (family) side of the the Orange Strategy. When a ministry decides they are going orange they make the choice to not only to create amazing environments in their church for kids and teens,...