by Michael Bayne | Aug 28, 2014 | leadership
I have been one of the lead pastors here at Grace Community Church for about a year and a half. Honestly it has wrecked my ability to blog because for the past year and a half I have been overwhelmed with everything I am learning. I get to the end of the day and I am...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 18, 2014 | communication, Grace Community Church, leadership
One of the most important things we can do as leaders is become consistent story tellers. Our church culture and leadership culture will be shaped by the stories that are shared and we have to become the chief story teller. I met with an 80 year old member of our...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 15, 2014 | leadership, volunteers
When it comes to leadership as a pastor or ministry leader inside a church so much of out life centers around helping people find places to serve and volunteer. We know serving helps people grow spiritually. We know our ministries need people to serve to make ministry...
by Michael Bayne | Jun 25, 2014 | leadership
Rest and leadership are 2 ideas we don’t connect often. I have never evaluated how I am leading and connected my leadership potential with my need to rest. It’s almost like leaders are afraid to even talk about the need to rest because it sounds a little...
by Michael Bayne | Jun 16, 2014 | communication, leadership
Change is hard but what I have discovered is that it’s the fuel of healthy growth and momentum for every church, ministry, non-profit, and family. Healthy living organisms change and we all hope the ministries we lead are living movements! We all resist change...
by Michael Bayne | Jun 10, 2014 | leadership, volunteers
One of the principles we always talk about with our team is that every Sunday matters because every Sunday is someones first Sunday at our church. It really does not matter what time of the year it is or what has been going on that week in our ministry areas we have...
