by Michael Bayne | Apr 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
Got new phones at the GCC office yesterday! Yes, take a look…these are the same phones on Bayne’s favorite show 24 . As soon as our tech guy pulled them out of the box I was STOKED that now our team at GCC can join the effort to stop terrorism with Jack...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
One thing I can promise every church, business, school, and non-profit is staff change. It does not matter if it is paid or volunteer staff there will come a time when you have a team member move on. In four years we have seen many times of leadership change when...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just read this from Mike Yaconelli’s book, Dangerous Wonder…”The Christian Life is more than finding Jesus–it is following Jesus. Following, it turns out, is not a one time, spectacular act of faith, but a one-day-at-a-time, ordinary,...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
When you are reaching new people it will always take more volunteers to serve those new people! That is mind boggling! Really – it takes people to reach people and it takes passionate volunteers to serve those new people. It is a crazy cycle and when you do not...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Thanks to so many of you who prayed for MERGE 09 and thanks a MILLION times to our host homes, lifegroup leaders, co-hosst, band, and speaker who took time to invest in a bunch of wild teens from relevant student ministry. We do MERGE and CRAVE each year as times...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
We made it to MERGE 09 and it all goes down this weekend. We use MERGE as one weekend where our Lifegroups can come together and go to another level. We are stoked because all of lifegroup leaders were able to be here this weekend and pour into our students. For this...