Do you remember being the new person in your job, coming in with all those wonderful ideas about what needed to be done? When I came to CCCC, everybody kept asking me what my first 90-day plan was, and frankly, I didn’t have one. I knew very little about CCCC but I knew it helped churches [...]
Strategic planning and Christian ministry
I’ve just finished writing a workshop called A Christian Perspective on Strategy Development. While writing it, I had a thought: Jesus, the ultimate leader, didn’t write a strategic plan for his disciples. I wondered, what might a strategic plan have looked like if the apostles had felt they needed to write one? Let’s speculate with a “What if…” scenario. (Don’t take the scenario too seriously folks, [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
