by Michael Bayne | Mar 7, 2013 | communication, high school ministry, middle school ministry, youth ministry
Speaking in any environment is challenging. Speaking to a room packed with wild middle school students is a entirely different experience. Every week all of us who lead teens face the same challenge of connecting with a generation that demands effective communication...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 6, 2013 | leadership, volunteers, youth ministry
Just because you are serving in a difficult ministry, leading difficult volunteers, struggling to push a difficult church, or have a difficult supervisor does not mean it’s time to move on to another church or organization. So many times we allow what is...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 5, 2013 | family ministry, Parenting
Had the chance to speak this Sunday at Grace Community and wrap up a series we called Dearly Beloved dealing with all the relationships that surround and impact marriages. This week we looked at the effect kids have on our marriages. The truth is that many parents I...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 4, 2013 | book review, family ministry
How do we connect church and home? That’s a question many of us leading family ministries across the country are asking. What seems like an easy task is actually pretty difficult. Our team at Grace Community has been working on the process in our church culture...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 1, 2013 | family ministry, leadership
When it comes to conferences we have limited time and limited resources. There is nothing worse than spending money and time to get away and hit a ministry conference only to be let down or discouraged. When you get away to think and refuel at a conference you want to...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 27, 2013 | small group, youth ministry
This week I had the chance to sit in on the ParentMinistry.Net webinar and listen to Mark Oestreicher process what is going on inside the brain of the teens we serve every week in our churches and communities. It was facinating stuff and such an encouragement for a...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 26, 2013 | change, family ministry, leadership
Momentum. It’s amazing when the ministry you lead has it and so discouraging when it leaves the building without warning. It’s so easy to see when it’s building and so difficult to gage when it’s disappearing. The inner leader in all of us...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 25, 2013 | family ministry, small group, youth ministry
I promise…every small group you lead will be different. Even if you lead the same group of kids or teenagers, next year they will be different. (It’s called growing older!) Small group leaders need enough structure to help their group gain forward motion...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 20, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
Next week the team at ParentMinistry.Net is hosting a free webinar for student and family pastors called Inside the Teenage Brain with Mark Oestreicher, better known as Marko to most us. Hope you will join several hundred student pastors online as we process the topic...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 19, 2013 | family ministry, leadership, volunteers
Are you surrounded by the right people? I believe that the people that surround your ministry will have a direct impact on your effectiveness as a leader. I know we like to think we can rise above the influences around us but in the long run the voices influence our...
