by Michael Bayne | Mar 2, 2012 | change, family ministry, high school ministry, middle school ministry, staff development, youth ministry
Mark Oestreicher, a distant youth ministry mentor of mine, recently wrote a post I hope you will read called the coming era of non-professional youth ministry. Things are changing in the youth ministry landscape. Not every church is opting to hire a staff member to...
by Michael Bayne | Mar 1, 2012 | free stuff, youth ministry
Our team was shown this video today and I can honestly say I have not laughed this hard in a long time. We are going to use this video soon to promote something…camp, or an event, or a message series, or just to have fun! This is way too good, check it out....
by Michael Bayne | Feb 29, 2012 | change, church planting, community, high school ministry, middle school ministry, vision, youth ministry
When I was growing up and when I did youth ministry in my 20’s every church had a youth section. Most of you leading in churches have the same thing. It’s that section of the church where all the teens sit during the Sunday morning services. Youth sections...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 28, 2012 | change, family ministry, youth ministry
How do you know if an event has been successful? We have been trying to answer that question over the past few years and we are beginning to understand what our measuring stick is in order to determine if a retreat or event is a success. Yes, we measure and track...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Here it is…#1,000 for the blog. This one snuck up on me and I didn’t realize that I was going to hit it because last week our student ministry team at Grace Community Church was in the middle of getting ready for a weekend retreat we call Merge. Pumped...
