by Michael Bayne | Sep 7, 2011 | leadership, staff development, youth ministry
Yesterday I talked about what senior pastors need from student pastors. If you are a student pastor and you want a healthy relationship with your senior pastor then you have to be willing to fight for it, to make it a priority. There are also some basic things that...
by Michael Bayne | Sep 7, 2011 | leadership, youth ministry
Head to any conference, listen to conversations around you, and you will soon discover that tons of senior pastors and student pastors have chaotic relationships. Sure they love each other and need each other but they often find themselves butting heads....
by Michael Bayne | Sep 5, 2011 | communication, Grace Community Church, leadership
This week I had the chance to speak at Grace Community as we started our series called Free. Sunday we checked out how we can break free from failure and looked at how Jesus helped Peter move forward after failure in John 21:15-19. Jesus stepped into an awkward moment...
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 23, 2011 | leadership, production
Life comes with no guarantee. Life is a gift with given with a beginning and an end. What is most significant about life is what we do in the the process of living, the writing of our story, the choices we make. I watched this video today and was simply inspired. I...
