by Michael Bayne | Feb 22, 2011 | leadership, volunteers
If you have a team that reports to you (paid staff or volunteers) you job is to help empower, train, and equip them to become the best team they can possibly be. We very rarely see ourselves as coaches. We have a team, we have a goal, and we have to lead our team to...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 22, 2011 | family ministry, leadership
For those of us who lead student and kid ministries we are in the serving business. We work with large teams of volunteers who invest in the lives of the next generation. We ask people to give their time for an amazing mission. We ask volunteers to serve but when do...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 16, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
Seth Godin is one of my favorite blogger, speaker, writer people out there and one of the few blogs I have emailed to my email inbox every day. This morning he wrote on his blog that making big plans is the only way to make big things happen. I think this principle...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 18, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
This week our kids ministry and small group ministry worked together to have 2 events going on in one area of our facility on the same Sunday. They worked out the timing, the space usage, the lighting, and then both events pulled off with success. It took some careful...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 14, 2011 | family ministry, leadership
At our office we try to keep our doors open as much as possible. We love the exchange if ideas that comes we when we have freedom to connect with each other during the day. We want conversation to happen and ideas to flow freely. What we are discovering when you have...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 12, 2011 | family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
You never know where you are going to be inspired. This week inspiration came from my daughters and their friends in our neighborhood. We didn’t quite get the amount of snow we wanted but what did the girls do…they made the most of what they had. They...
