by Michael Bayne | Dec 28, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
The past few weeks have given me some time to look back and process 2013. The past year has been filled with change and challenge for my family. I have never faced a year like I faced in 2013 with so many ministry challenges. I also have never found it quite so...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 18, 2013 | change, leadership
I have been reading an older book by John Maxwell and in a chapter dealing with criticism he used this quote that kind of shocked my system… Criticism is something you can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. – Aristotle If you...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 12, 2013 | children's ministry, leadership, youth ministry
Our church is located in the south and we don’t have snow often. When we do have snow…it’s chaos! This past weekend our kids ministry team at our church had an amazing event planned for families. The team had invested hours and hours into every...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 9, 2013 | family ministry, leadership
One of the greatest challenges for any organization is finding the right leaders to join the team. It makes no difference if you are filling a volunteer role or a paid staff position, building a team that is effective is hard work. A few years ago the University of...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 5, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry
I spent 10 days in November working with local church plants in Katihar, India. One of the visits we made to a church I was asked to be a part of a child dedication and the picture above is the dedication prayer time with the baby and parents. It was an amazing moment...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 2, 2013 | children's ministry, youth ministry
Happy Cyber Monday! It’s great to be back blogging. I spend most of November in India on a mission trip and then the Thanksgiving Holiday hit so I have been missing for a few weeks! To celebrate being back online I wanted to give anyone who follow this blog an...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 7, 2013 | family ministry, leadership, team building
Everyone makes mistakes but not everyone knows how to deal with them. We all try our best to avoid blunders but they seem to find their way to us every once in a while. Sometimes we make the mistake and other times people on our team mess up. How we handle the mistake...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 4, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
A few years ago we took a big risk and launched our first middle school environment at RELEVANT student ministry and we called that gathering THE MIX. It’s been several years and a name change since that launch but it was one of the best moves we ever made in...
by Michael Bayne | Oct 29, 2013 | children's ministry, leadership, youth ministry
This week Chelsea, my wife, was leading a webinar for ParentMinistry.Net and she had a great question come up. What do you do as a children’s or student pastor when you feel like you’re leading on an island and your senior leadership does not support you?...
by Michael Bayne | Oct 23, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
When it comes to staff, I can’t remember a time in ministry when I didn’t need more help. I have learned over the years that I can’t wait for people to see my need for staff to begin building a staff. Before you immediately say that this “staff...
