by Michael Bayne | Jun 19, 2013 | family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
No matter what you lead, where you lead, or who you lead the natural tendency is to allow the immediate needs of the organization to consume your attention. Taking time to think, learn, and listen takes a back seat to handling those 60 emails that are in your inbox,...
by Michael Bayne | Jun 18, 2013 | family ministry, leadership
I’m sure at some point you have worked on a project for a camp, retreat, or a conference intending it to be funny and then had someone watch it or read it and look you right in the eye only to say…that’s not funny. You immediately take it around to...
by Michael Bayne | Jun 11, 2013 | family ministry, leadership
It’s hard to watch people walk away from Jesus. We know it’s going to happen and it still hurts. We invest hours and hours into our weekly environments for teens and kids. We train group leaders to mentor their small groups. We work diligently to craft...
by Michael Bayne | Jun 8, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
I have spent the past six days at our middle school and kids camps getting some time to step back and focus. It just takes a short time around this crowd to really be reminded of what matters most about what we do in ministry. When you take people and you surround...
by Michael Bayne | May 29, 2013 | family ministry, Parenting
This is a picture of Kozbi’s first science project back in 1st grade. You can see the masterpiece above, it was good. When I went to the parent meeting the teacher told us DO THIS WITH YOUR KID…NOT FOR YOUR KID! Science projects are meant for kids to...
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...
