by Michael Bayne | Oct 17, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, volunteers, youth ministry
This past weekend I went with my family to Sky Top Orchard in South Carolina and we picked apples. Sky Top was amazing. We got a few baskets and went out into the orchard and started looking for apples. We are late in the season so the closest trees had been picked...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 30, 2011 | leadership, staff development, volunteers
Giving away leadership opportunities is the best thing that has happened in my life this year. It is also the hardest! Hard because it demands I give away control. Hard because I have to trust other leaders to make the right choice. Hard because I have to embrace...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 22, 2011 | family ministry, Orange, vision, volunteers
Ideas need ammunition if they are actually going to be able to wage the war it takes to make them become reality. When it came to family ministry…true partnership with home and church…I had tons of ideas but none of them ever were able to move out of our...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 19, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, Orange, volunteers
Volunteers make or break our ministry. So many times we spend hours getting volunteers without having a plan to empower and free them to actually do ministry when they show up. Volunteers want to spend their time doing significant things and we better have a plan. One...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 9, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, volunteers, youth ministry
Every volunteer on our team needs to be doing significant things. Volunteers need to know what what they do matters and if they are not on our team they will be missed. Our family ministry team is on a mission right now to empower our volunteers like never before. We...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 30, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, team building, volunteers
This fall our Family Ministry Team at Grace Community partnered with the guys at Orange and hired in Joy Bowen to do some coaching with our team. We needed an outside perspective to help us process a staff realignment we were about to make. We called the guys at the...
