by Michael Bayne | Aug 20, 2018 | church planting, Greenville Community Church, leadership, volunteers
In May of 2018 our church plant was only 5 months old and we were staring down the dread of all pastors…summer. I have yet to meet a pastor that looks forward to summer. It’s difficult for so many reasons. Attendance is a weekly roller coaster. Giving...
by Michael Bayne | Jun 12, 2018 | church planting, leadership
Today is a voting day here in South Carolina and it got me thinking about the best resource I have stumbled upon to help me process my faith and politics and all the anger that is raging these days from Democrats, Republicans, and those of us fed up with the entire...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 26, 2017 | family ministry, leadership, volunteers
One thing every ministry leader should do is make time to actually volunteer. If you are a pastor or ministry leader then you spend tons of time asking people to volunteer. You spend hour on hour recruiting and equipping people to serve. Truth is that none of our...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 22, 2017 | leadership, volunteers
If you’re going to make a spiritual impact in the lives of families you can’t do it alone. You need a winning team and it makes no difference the size of your church. In this session, we will discover how to find and develop a winning family ministry team!...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 22, 2017 | family ministry, leadership
If you are serving in a church setting then you must learn how to guide people through the maze of change. Some of us thrive in change and some would rather avoid it all together. No matter your preference the most critical aspect of effective change leadership is...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 14, 2017 | leadership, volunteers
We all have them and we always will have them…chronically negative volunteers. Nothing is good enough. There are always “other people” who are complaining to them. There seems to always be some crisis that needs to be addressed. Ignoring them has...
