by Michael Bayne | Sep 17, 2010 | family ministry, youth ministry
My friends at Rethink have a new site for you to check out. MarriedPeople is an organization that hopes to help churches help marriages! Helping people have healthy marriages may be the best gift we can give children and teens that are plugged into our ministries. The...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 16, 2010 | family ministry, youth ministry
Can youth ministry begin to connect with mom and dad and home? We think the answer is one huge YES. When you process connecting with parents you need to shift your thinking to the idea of partnering. When a teenager is living in a home you will find a parent who...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 9, 2010 | family ministry, Grace Community Church
Look who showed up at the Grace Community Church office…CRISS CROSS! Criss Cross is our new mascot for our kids ministry here at GCC. This Sunday we get to see Criss Cross in action and our team is pretty excited to see how our kids respond to this crazy dog. As...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 23, 2010 | family ministry, youth ministry
What is your greatest need in the ministry you lead? You may automatically say more volunteers. What you need more than just more volunteers is MULTIPLICATION. You need your key leaders developing other new leaders, multiplying. We need our existing leaders investing...
by Michael Bayne | May 27, 2010 | family ministry, leadership
I have always been a fan of Mark Batterson’s blog and his writing and this idea he lays out in his new book Primal is stuck in my head…Change of Pace + Change of Place = Change of PerspectiveOn Thursday the Family Ministry Teams of Grace Community Church...
by Michael Bayne | May 26, 2010 | family ministry, youth ministry
Last week we gathered our Remix small group leaders for an end of the year gathering to help them prepare for this summer and to celebrate the end of the school year. My favorite part of the night was hearing the stories of life change that happened in their small...
