The best part of my work is visiting ministry leaders and hearing them talk about their ministries. In the time I’ve been at CCCC, I can safely say I’ve visited over two hundred ministries and, without exception, every senior staff leader is passionate about the mission of his or her ministry. They are full of enthusiasm, vision and [...]
The unique challenges of church boards
Since January I’ve delivered a seminar called Serving as a Board Member right across Canada, and I’ve heard a lot about the problems boards experience. The striking thing I’ve learned from these stories is that the very worst problems seem to occur in churches. I know there are some very good church boards, but I mostly hear about the dysfunctional ones. Why are church boards so [...]
Sabbatical anyone?
Oh how the time flies. When I joined CCCC, Ontario had mandatory retirement and I had 19 years to do as much as I could as its leader. Now my seventh anniversary is coming up in September and more than a third of that time has flown by! I feel like I’m still the new guy, but in fact [...]
When fear strikes!
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmoon Over the last few weeks of travel, I visited 26 CCCC member charities across the country and asked how things are going. There is no doubt that the economy has affected many charities, but the most [...]
Discerning your call
My hero-in-the-faith, John Richardson, was called to ministry in 1959 at the age of 47. This wasn’t quite a mid-life career change since today he is a very healthy 97 year-old, but it was close to mid-life. (CCCC members will remember John as the banquet speaker at the 2007 conference.) John was a senior manager at a textile company and could see [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
