by Michael Bayne | Sep 9, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, volunteers, youth ministry
Every volunteer on our team needs to be doing significant things. Volunteers need to know what what they do matters and if they are not on our team they will be missed. Our family ministry team is on a mission right now to empower our volunteers like never before. We...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 30, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, team building, volunteers
This fall our Family Ministry Team at Grace Community partnered with the guys at Orange and hired in Joy Bowen to do some coaching with our team. We needed an outside perspective to help us process a staff realignment we were about to make. We called the guys at the...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 26, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
If you work with teens or kids crisis moments are things you work hard to avoid. We have policies, guidelines, safeguards, and checklists but still if you are reaching people then crisis will knock on your door from time to time. An accident, a volunteer mistake, a...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 24, 2011 | family, family ministry, Parenting, youth ministry
Balancing family and ministry is a constant struggle for parents in ministry. Chelsea and I both have leadership roles at Grace Community Church and the demand for us to balance home and church has become even more important. There are times both of us have...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 22, 2011 | communication, family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
A few weeks ago I went with a few of my friends to Atlanta to spend a day at the PGA Championship and play a round of golf together. We went to an older course in the Buckhead area. The course was in great shape and had a fun layout but it was lacking one...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 19, 2011 | family ministry, Grace Community Church, training, volunteers
Every August our Family Ministry Team at Grace Community hosts a conference for our volunteers who work with kids called the Revolution Conference. There is never a perfect time for a training event. We never get “all” our volunteers there, but we believe...
