by Michael Bayne | Feb 4, 2013 | leadership, Orange
It has taken me a long time to figure out a way of networking that works for my life. Yea, I’m an extrovert but networking can easily take a back seat when things get hectic around the office. What I have learned is that networking is nothing more than...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 31, 2013 | change, family ministry, leadership
One of my favorite apps on my mac, iPhone, and iPad is Evernote. I use it everyday, multiple times a day. If you use the application very long you will notice that they have frequent updates. It seems like every month (sometimes every other week) they are tweaking...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 30, 2013 | communication, multi-site, youth ministry
This month we redesigned and relaunched our ministry website for Relevantstudents.com and we could not be more thrilled with how it turned out. In 2007 when we launched Relevant through Grace Community Church we knew we wanted to focus all our communication energy...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 29, 2013 | communication, production, youth ministry
Today I am posting a guest post from Caitlin Little. Caitlin is one of the sharpest young female leaders I have met in a long time and I have the honor of having her serve as the Small Group Director in our student ministry at Grace Community Church. You can follow...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 28, 2013 | family ministry, leadership, Orange
We invest in the next generation because we deeply believe that Jesus is the greatest need for every child, teen, college student, mom and dad. We know Jesus changes everything. In our passion to see people follow Jesus we often forget that Jesus began a movement...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 24, 2013 | family ministry, small group, volunteers
Recruiting volunteers is a continuous battle and many times it drives us to not pay attention to the need to retain great people on our team. Retaining volunteers is just as important as getting new leaders to jump on the team. Losing team members is difficult for you...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 23, 2013 | family ministry, leadership, volunteers
Delegating and empowering volunteers is critical for every leader, but delegating and empowering the wrong people will kill momentum. Just think back to the time and effort you had to put into handling the mess caused by the last time you empowered the wrong leader....
by Michael Bayne | Jan 22, 2013 | communication, small group, youth ministry
A student pastor that is thinking philosophically and programmatically about their large group environment and about the small group approach to relational ministry needs to ask these two questions: 1. How can small groups enhance the large group student ministry...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 21, 2013 | communication, production, youth ministry
This week my mom was hanging out with my daughters and took them to WalMart to let them pick out a new DVD. My youngest decided she wanted a some kind of stuffed animal instead so she got it and then was allowed to go and pick a DVD out of a sale bin. The choices were...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 17, 2013 | leadership, youth ministry
This week we have been reminded about the power and destruction that lies can cause. Early in the week we learned Lance Armstrong was going to confess to lying about his use of performance enhancing drugs and yesterday we learned of a possible lie involving a pretend...
