by Michael Bayne | Jan 16, 2014 | children's ministry, family ministry, Parenting
Parenting is a difficult journey. It’s always been hard and it always has been an adventure! A few years ago many of us came to terms with the truth that the church would never be able to duplicate the spiritual influence that parents carry. We began to partner...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 8, 2014 | children's ministry, family ministry, Parenting
It’s always fun to hang around and connect with parents as they pick up their kids from our children’s ministry on Sunday mornings. I enjoy connecting with the parents and I love watching the interaction of our small group leaders and parents. If you...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 12, 2013 | children's ministry, leadership, youth ministry
Our church is located in the south and we don’t have snow often. When we do have snow…it’s chaos! This past weekend our kids ministry team at our church had an amazing event planned for families. The team had invested hours and hours into every...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 5, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry
I spent 10 days in November working with local church plants in Katihar, India. One of the visits we made to a church I was asked to be a part of a child dedication and the picture above is the dedication prayer time with the baby and parents. It was an amazing moment...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 2, 2013 | children's ministry, youth ministry
Happy Cyber Monday! It’s great to be back blogging. I spend most of November in India on a mission trip and then the Thanksgiving Holiday hit so I have been missing for a few weeks! To celebrate being back online I wanted to give anyone who follow this blog an...
by Michael Bayne | Oct 29, 2013 | children's ministry, leadership, youth ministry
This week Chelsea, my wife, was leading a webinar for ParentMinistry.Net and she had a great question come up. What do you do as a children’s or student pastor when you feel like you’re leading on an island and your senior leadership does not support you?...
