by Michael Bayne | Mar 1, 2011 | family ministry, relevant student ministry, youth ministry
When we first launched our student environments here at Grace Community we developed a website for the ministry. We wanted an online presence to be the face of Relevant Student Ministry. We just got done launching our site for Aqua College Ministry and we could not be...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Not sure how to put into words how amazing MERGE 11 was for Relevant Student Ministry. We watched as God delivered all weekend. Our speaker could not make it due to his flight being canceled 2 times…God delivered and helped our team speak at each of the...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 24, 2011 | relevant student ministry
It’s a big weekend here at Relevant Student Ministry…it’s time for Merge. Not going to be blogging for the next few days because we have a ton to get ready for this weekend and I just need to focus. Merge is a small group weekend where small groups...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 22, 2011 | leadership, volunteers
If you have a team that reports to you (paid staff or volunteers) you job is to help empower, train, and equip them to become the best team they can possibly be. We very rarely see ourselves as coaches. We have a team, we have a goal, and we have to lead our team to...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 22, 2011 | family ministry, leadership
For those of us who lead student and kid ministries we are in the serving business. We work with large teams of volunteers who invest in the lives of the next generation. We ask people to give their time for an amazing mission. We ask volunteers to serve but when do...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 18, 2011 | family ministry, Parenting
We spend so much of our lives looking for significance. We crave it. We want to know our lives count for something, that what we do a work matters, that somehow we are important. I am guy so I know all about our search for significance. For men this is a big...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 16, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
Seth Godin is one of my favorite blogger, speaker, writer people out there and one of the few blogs I have emailed to my email inbox every day. This morning he wrote on his blog that making big plans is the only way to make big things happen. I think this principle...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 11, 2011 | family ministry, youth ministry
One principle that I have learned over the past 4 years at the Orange Conference has been the potential of teamwork in our family ministries. As a student pastor I was always skeptical about partnering with the kids ministry or college ministry. I had a plan, I had a...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 10, 2011 | family ministry, youth ministry
One of the best parts of the Orange Conference every year is time to network and spend time with leaders from across the country striving to think Orange. There is no conference in the country that allows church leaders investing the next generation to unite like the...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 9, 2011 | family ministry, volunteers, youth ministry
If you lead a ministry inside a church there is a 100% chance you lead a team of volunteers. One of my favorite breakouts from the Orange Conference came last year from Darren Kizer as he helped us process how we catch volunteers up to speed. Check these notes out...
