by Michael Bayne | Feb 7, 2014 | communication, multi-site, youth ministry
The idea of having a teaching team rather than one singular teaching voice in a ministry or church is not a new idea. Many of you are in churches where you have a team of communicators but just most of you probably don’t live in this reality. No matter if we are...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 28, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
The past few weeks have given me some time to look back and process 2013. The past year has been filled with change and challenge for my family. I have never faced a year like I faced in 2013 with so many ministry challenges. I also have never found it quite so...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 12, 2013 | children's ministry, leadership, youth ministry
Our church is located in the south and we don’t have snow often. When we do have snow…it’s chaos! This past weekend our kids ministry team at our church had an amazing event planned for families. The team had invested hours and hours into every...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 2, 2013 | children's ministry, youth ministry
Happy Cyber Monday! It’s great to be back blogging. I spend most of November in India on a mission trip and then the Thanksgiving Holiday hit so I have been missing for a few weeks! To celebrate being back online I wanted to give anyone who follow this blog an...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 4, 2013 | family ministry, youth ministry
A few years ago we took a big risk and launched our first middle school environment at RELEVANT student ministry and we called that gathering THE MIX. It’s been several years and a name change since that launch but it was one of the best moves we ever made in...
by Michael Bayne | Oct 29, 2013 | children's ministry, leadership, youth ministry
This week Chelsea, my wife, was leading a webinar for ParentMinistry.Net and she had a great question come up. What do you do as a children’s or student pastor when you feel like you’re leading on an island and your senior leadership does not support you?...
