by Michael Bayne | Nov 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
From the very first day Grace Community have tried to embrace teamwork as a core value of our staff. We never thought it would lead to Batman and Nacho Libre hanging out on our office! We added three incredible guys on staff (Adam Bayne as our kids pastor, Rog Hill...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 13, 2009 | leadership
Our team gathers a few times a year to do short one or two day staff retreats. This time we are in Nashville but usually we just get out of our office and into a local retreat center, hotel, church, or business to think as a team. How and if you meet, plan, dream...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Nov. 15 @ 5:30 @ Rossview High School CROSS STREET LIVE goes down and you and your kids need to be there. Ok if your kids are grown or teens not so much, but if you have a kid (or grandchild) in K-5th grade this is a family experience you don’t need to miss. We...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Don’t imagine us leaders to be something we aren’t. We are servants of Christ, not his masters. We are guides into God’s most sublime secrets, not security guards posted to protect them. – Paul, I Corinthians 4:1How do you see your roll as a...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Why is such an important world for our organization. Before any event, training session, message, or worship set our team wants to ask WHY? Why guides, clarifies, and when answered brings confidence. For some reason many organizations never ask the why question and...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you are a student ministry and you do events you probably need to know why you do them. When we launched relevant three years ago we had to think hard about what events we would do as a ministry and why we would do them. We did not have a ton of students coming and...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Why ask teens to serve on Sunday…THEY ARE READY TO SERVE! We do not have a teen environment on Sunday because teens at our church serve and go to the Sunday gathering with their families. Sunday morning is our “family environment” for teens and...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
When and how to do small groups is a big issue for any of us leading a student ministry! This is another one of those big issues that I really struggled to work through when we launched our weekly gathering. We thought about doing home groups that met a different...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 3, 2009 | youth ministry
When I am hanging out with student or children’s pastors I always have 100 why questions for them. In every ministry setting there are are cultural and strategic influences that guide what we do. This week I want to do a few WHY posts about our ministry here at...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
We made it through another Halloween. The kids had a great time, the Vol’s beat South Carolina, and our family had some great time together. For me it was a good night. I think Halloween is a good night for America in general. I know you might be rolling your...
