by Michael Bayne | Apr 29, 2011 | Orange 2011
What an amazing 3 days it has been here at the Orange Conference. I have been seriously blessed to be able to set aside several days to process ministry to kids, teens, college students, and parents. This is one of my favorite weeks of the year and by far my favorite...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 29, 2011 | community, Orange 2011, youth ministry
Yea this blog title sounds like a title of a course at seminary but how we pull this off in our student ministries is a critical concern for every youth pastor out there. Helping teens grow in their faith in a way that impacts their everyday life is difficult and none...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 29, 2011 | family ministry, Orange 2011, youth ministry
Everyday we pass schools on the way to work (just happens to be the GCC church office for me) packed with kids who have never heard about this Jesus we talk about in our churches every week. Those schools are packed with kids who go home to hell everyday. Those...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 28, 2011 | community, family ministry, Orange 2011, volunteers, youth ministry
One of the greatest gifts we can give parents in a healthy and intentional small group ministry. When talking to kids that grow up to serve Christ in the church they can often look back and recognize 5 or more adults that intentionally invested in their life. Small...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 28, 2011 | Orange 2011
This morning Jeff Manion of Ada Bible Church helped us process what life looks like in the middle. You know the middle, you have experienced the middle…Jeff calls it the “in between”. The middle is the gap between where you are and where God wants...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 27, 2011 | family ministry, Orange 2011, volunteers, youth ministry
“Freeing your volunteers.” That statement can mean a million things and it really sounds good when you say it. This afternoon Tom Shefchunas helped us wrap our minds around creating ministries full of volunteers who are pumped to be there, using their...
