by Michael Bayne | Jul 8, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry
After 2 weeks away from the blog I am back and ready to go! Excited today to be able to officially announce that Chelsea and I have joined the ParentMinistry.Net team. A few months ago we wrote a new version of this tool to focus on families with kids in Kindergarten...
by Michael Bayne | Jun 20, 2013 | children's ministry, Top 5, youth ministry
We have all heard this when a staff member leaves our team…”God is calling me away.”. I have no doubt that is true because God has moved my family several times over the course of 14 years of ministry. God calls people away, but there are factors...
by Michael Bayne | May 31, 2013 | children's ministry, youth ministry
It’s summer time so it’s probably getting close to time for camp. If you work with kids or teens you know the power that a week away from home can bring. No matter what your camp format looks like when you get anyone out of their normal flow and surround...
by Michael Bayne | May 28, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry, small group
So you’re leading a small group and they aren’t connecting. Join the club…we have all led a group that did not connect and some point in the small group journey. It seems to creep up and surprise us. We can’t believe that people have problems...
by Michael Bayne | May 20, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry, youth ministry
It’s an age old question if you create a worship experience for any age group. Are they engaging? Is worship happening in the worship experience that we have worked so hard to create. When you look around the room do do you sense people are going for it?...
by Michael Bayne | May 13, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry
Baby Dedication…every church has some form of it. Here at our church we did it for years in autopilot. We liked it. We enjoyed seeing families on stage. We prayed over babies and it was a special time but we never slowed down long enough to move beyond cute. I...
