by Michael Bayne | Apr 27, 2012 | change, family ministry, leadership, serve, vision, youth ministry
How do we develop a healthy culture inside our staff and volunteer culture? We ask that question often if we lead any size team. We read books about it, we lead training to encourage it, and we find ourself frustrated when people don’t get it. This morning Andy...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 26, 2012 | change, family ministry, leadership, Orange, orange 12, vision
Leading change is one of the hardest things any leader has to do. Most next generation leaders love change. We love change because we know it will help the ministry grow. The people you lead are not always as excited about change because you are changing their...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 26, 2012 | family ministry, Orange, orange 12, Parenting
What kind of kids are we raising? That’s a question every parent, educator, and next generation pastor asks often. This morning we started the day off at the Orange Conference with Craig Groechel asking us that question. I know if you have kids or you serve kids...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 26, 2012 | leadership, Orange, orange 12, vision
Tonight Reggie Joiner opened up the Orange Conference and even as I type this I am trying to wrap my mind around he full weight of his talk tonight. The truth is that what we do in family ministry is messy because the Gospel is messy. You can’t serve teens,...
by Michael Bayne | Apr 25, 2012 | children's ministry, family ministry, multi-site, Orange, orange 12
At Grace Community Church we are a portable church. We rent 2 schools for our Sunday environments and we rent a local church on Wednesday nights for our student ministry. We live the portable idea every week. Sometimes we love it and sometimes we hate it. One thing we...
