by Michael Bayne | Feb 27, 2013 | small group, youth ministry
This week I had the chance to sit in on the ParentMinistry.Net webinar and listen to Mark Oestreicher process what is going on inside the brain of the teens we serve every week in our churches and communities. It was facinating stuff and such an encouragement for a...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 26, 2013 | change, family ministry, leadership
Momentum. It’s amazing when the ministry you lead has it and so discouraging when it leaves the building without warning. It’s so easy to see when it’s building and so difficult to gage when it’s disappearing. The inner leader in all of us...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 25, 2013 | family ministry, small group, youth ministry
I promise…every small group you lead will be different. Even if you lead the same group of kids or teenagers, next year they will be different. (It’s called growing older!) Small group leaders need enough structure to help their group gain forward motion...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 20, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
Next week the team at ParentMinistry.Net is hosting a free webinar for student and family pastors called Inside the Teenage Brain with Mark Oestreicher, better known as Marko to most us. Hope you will join several hundred student pastors online as we process the topic...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 19, 2013 | family ministry, leadership, volunteers
Are you surrounded by the right people? I believe that the people that surround your ministry will have a direct impact on your effectiveness as a leader. I know we like to think we can rise above the influences around us but in the long run the voices influence our...