by Michael Bayne | Apr 25, 2012 | middle school ministry, Orange, orange 12, youth ministry
My first breakout from Orange this morning was with Tom Shefchunas and we looked at how to understand the middle school mind. I’m pretty passionate about middle school ministry because I have seen it shape the lives of many great leaders over the years. Here is...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 25, 2012 | family ministry, Orange, Orange 2012
It’s the night before the Orange Conference and once again this year I am so excited about how God is going to work in the lives of next generation leaders. For three days preschool, children’s, youth, and college pastors and volunteers (even a few senior...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 20, 2012 | Orange
In just a few days 5,000 youth ministers, senior pastors, volunteers, children’s pastors, college, and preschool pastors are going to descend on Atlanta for The Orange Conference and there is still room for you to join us. By the time you read this post we will...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 17, 2012 | children's ministry, family ministry, Orange, youth ministry
This month I am going to be blogging about some curriculum thoughts we have here in our family ministry at Grace Community Church. Six years ago we linked arms with a group of writers who had a new idea of how curriculum should function. After six years of working...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 5, 2012 | family ministry, Orange, youth ministry
You need to see this video for 2 reasons. One, I’m hoping if you are at the Orange Conference this month we can connect. Two, one of my good friends gets hurt in this video and it is pretty funny. Seriously I hope we can connect at Orange. This year I will be...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 9, 2012 | family ministry, Orange, Parenting, training, vision, youth ministry
Involving kids in mission work is vital to helping them understand the mission of the church. We try to get kids plugged into missions as soon as they hit Kindergarten and enter our kids ministry by serving as families in a yearly missions experience we call Operation...
