by Michael Bayne | Feb 20, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
Next week the team at ParentMinistry.Net is hosting a free webinar for student and family pastors called Inside the Teenage Brain with Mark Oestreicher, better known as Marko to most us. Hope you will join several hundred student pastors online as we process the topic...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 19, 2013 | family ministry, leadership, volunteers
Are you surrounded by the right people? I believe that the people that surround your ministry will have a direct impact on your effectiveness as a leader. I know we like to think we can rise above the influences around us but in the long run the voices influence our...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 14, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry, youth ministry
This week a blog post called Top 10 Reasons Kids Leave Church got shot all around the internet on Facebook and Twitter because it’s a common struggle for church leaders across our nation. The issue taps into fear which we have been conditioned to respond to by...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 11, 2013 | family ministry, leadership
The hardest day of the week for me is no doubt Monday. Don’t misunderstand, I love hitting the office on Monday. Love getting to start a new week with different projects. The struggle with Monday for me is that my brain is swimming with evaluation over Sunday...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 8, 2013 | family ministry, Orange
This week bloggers all across the country have been processing the orange strategy online and I wanted to gather my favorite 10 posts from the week. I also want to give away an incredible book called Leading Change Without Losing It by my friend Carey Nieuwhof. This...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 6, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry, small group
The past few years at our church we have been asking a pretty difficult question in how are we serving families with special needs kids? It’s an issue that Chelsea, my wife, who is a former special education teacher has helped us work through. I wish I could say...
