by Michael Bayne | Sep 17, 2011 | family ministry, Orange
The coming week is a big week…registration for The Orange Conference 2012 opens up and we hope you will jump in and join us in Atlanta. Another reason I am excited about next week is that a bunch of my friends are going to be writing about Orange on their blogs....
by Michael Bayne | Sep 15, 2011 | leadership
Overwhelmed by the amazing day from the Story Conference today. The passion, the thought, the ideas, and the dreams that come from this conference are mind boggling. If you follow my blog you know that when I am at a conference I write…I write alot. Today I was...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 14, 2011 | production
This week is all about setting time aside to process, think, and dream about what is possible. Tuesday I had the chance to connect with friends and think about family ministry at the Orange Tour and Thursday and Friday I will be at the Story Conference. STORY is a...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 13, 2011 | family ministry, Orange, youth ministry
When you serve kids, teens and college students you are serving moving targets. They are in constant motion. Their outlook is constantly changing. They influences are consistently morphing. This generation and all that will come ahead of us are moving targets. How do...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 13, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, Orange, staff development
Strategy is such a cool word but really strategy is a very simple concept. Strategy is nothing more than a plan with the end in mind. The question I hope you will think about this morning is what would happen if your preschool, children, youth, and college leaders...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 13, 2011 | family ministry, Orange
Excited about spending the day here at the Orange Tour with some of our Grace Community Church team thinking Orange. I will be blogging and tweeting and thinking out load through the day so check back here for a few updates. More importantly I hope you will check out...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 12, 2011 | communication, family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
If you lead a ministry then you face challenge on a regular basis. There are always problems to work on and things to improve. There are also times when you feel like you are losing momentum and maybe even moving backwards. That’s a terrible feeling that we have...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today has been a day to look back and remember those who sacrificed so much on 9-11-01 ten years ago. I find myself just being thankful for all those who stand in the gap in this fight to protect our nation. I’m so blessed to know so many incredible people who...
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 | Sep 7, 2011 | leadership, staff development, youth ministry
Yesterday I talked about what senior pastors need from student pastors. If you are a student pastor and you want a healthy relationship with your senior pastor then you have to be willing to fight for it, to make it a priority. There are also some basic things that...
