by Michael Bayne | May 21, 2012 | children's ministry, family ministry, youth ministry
It’s impossible to create a ministry that will connect with everyone. I know it’s true because I have spend years trying to reach every teen through the ministry I lead. Year after year the hard reality is that no matter what, where, or how we do what we...
by Michael Bayne | May 17, 2012 | children's ministry, leadership, youth ministry
I was reminded today of the power of simply being in the right place at the right time. I had the chance to go hang out with the family and be at my 3rd grader’s award ceremony today. As I was walking out I got the chance to connect with a parent from our church...
by Michael Bayne | May 9, 2012 | children's ministry, family ministry, production
For my first two years serving as family pastor here at Grace Community Church I made very excuse I could as to why we did not need a large group experience for our preschool environment. Let me try and list a few excuses that you may have embraced like I did. We...
by Michael Bayne | May 8, 2012 | children's ministry, family ministry, leadership, staff development, youth ministry
Hang out with a group of children’s, student, or college pastors for a while and at some point someone will bring up the topic of their senior pastor. What’s discouraging is that most of the time when the issue is brought up feelings of frustration are...
by Michael Bayne | May 3, 2012 | children's ministry, community, family ministry, volunteers, youth ministry
One of my favorite things about leading our family ministry team here at Grace Community Church is getting to connect with our small group leaders at every level. Every week, in every environment, with every age group we have leaders who invest in others as small...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 25, 2012 | children's ministry, family ministry, multi-site, Orange, orange 12
At Grace Community Church we are a portable church. We rent 2 schools for our Sunday environments and we rent a local church on Wednesday nights for our student ministry. We live the portable idea every week. Sometimes we love it and sometimes we hate it. One thing we...
