by Michael Bayne | Sep 30, 2011 | leadership, staff development, volunteers
Giving away leadership opportunities is the best thing that has happened in my life this year. It is also the hardest! Hard because it demands I give away control. Hard because I have to trust other leaders to make the right choice. Hard because I have to embrace...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 19, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, Orange, volunteers
Volunteers make or break our ministry. So many times we spend hours getting volunteers without having a plan to empower and free them to actually do ministry when they show up. Volunteers want to spend their time doing significant things and we better have a plan. One...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 15, 2011 | leadership
Overwhelmed by the amazing day from the Story Conference today. The passion, the thought, the ideas, and the dreams that come from this conference are mind boggling. If you follow my blog you know that when I am at a conference I write…I write alot. Today I was...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 13, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, Orange, staff development
Strategy is such a cool word but really strategy is a very simple concept. Strategy is nothing more than a plan with the end in mind. The question I hope you will think about this morning is what would happen if your preschool, children, youth, and college leaders...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 12, 2011 | communication, family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
If you lead a ministry then you face challenge on a regular basis. There are always problems to work on and things to improve. There are also times when you feel like you are losing momentum and maybe even moving backwards. That’s a terrible feeling that we have...
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...
