by Michael Bayne | Mar 9, 2012 | family ministry, Orange, Parenting, training, vision, youth ministry
Involving kids in mission work is vital to helping them understand the mission of the church. We try to get kids plugged into missions as soon as they hit Kindergarten and enter our kids ministry by serving as families in a yearly missions experience we call Operation...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 8, 2012 | children's ministry, free stuff, middle school ministry, youth ministry
In our middle school service last night we played a game called Balloon Blob. Yea, it was pretty funny. we had 2 teams of three and we had guys go against girls. The goal was simple. Blow up as many balloons as possible and take them to one member of the team creating...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
We have believed in the work of an organization called Invisible Children for many years at Relevant Student Ministry and now the time has come to help students connect with a movement that is launching over the next two months. Our world has changed. We are...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 6, 2012 | change, family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
For years there has been a great divide between kids and student ministry. We each did our own thing and ignored the other. The good news is that churches are figuring out that this mindset is not really helpful for families or the church. The bad news is that all of...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 5, 2012 | community, family ministry, leadership, vision, volunteers, youth ministry
This month at Grace Community we are working hard to celebrate our volunteers. Every week volunteers make it possible for our church to reach people in our city with the message of Jesus. Volunteers at our church lead worship, serve in the parking lot to greet people,...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 2, 2012 | change, family ministry, high school ministry, middle school ministry, staff development, youth ministry
Mark Oestreicher, a distant youth ministry mentor of mine, recently wrote a post I hope you will read called the coming era of non-professional youth ministry. Things are changing in the youth ministry landscape. Not every church is opting to hire a staff member to...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 1, 2012 | free stuff, youth ministry
Our team was shown this video today and I can honestly say I have not laughed this hard in a long time. We are going to use this video soon to promote something…camp, or an event, or a message series, or just to have fun! This is way too good, check it out....
by Michael Bayne | Feb 29, 2012 | change, church planting, community, high school ministry, middle school ministry, vision, youth ministry
When I was growing up and when I did youth ministry in my 20’s every church had a youth section. Most of you leading in churches have the same thing. It’s that section of the church where all the teens sit during the Sunday morning services. Youth sections...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 28, 2012 | change, family ministry, youth ministry
How do you know if an event has been successful? We have been trying to answer that question over the past few years and we are beginning to understand what our measuring stick is in order to determine if a retreat or event is a success. Yes, we measure and track...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Here it is…#1,000 for the blog. This one snuck up on me and I didn’t realize that I was going to hit it because last week our student ministry team at Grace Community Church was in the middle of getting ready for a weekend retreat we call Merge. Pumped...
