This post is for pastors, mission committee members and anyone else interested in getting missionaries to their fields faster. This excerpt of an article I wrote for the CCCC Bulletin has ideas that churches could use to greatly ease the burden of raising initial support. The suggestions come from eight missionary teams from around the [...]
Competing for donors
Should Christian ministries compete with each other? When I read Mark Petersen’s post yesterday, I was quite surprised to see what appeared to be a head-on competitive bid by Canadian Food for the Hungry International (FH). Mark posted a graph from FH’s website showing the percentage of donations that go into poverty-relief programs, not only [...]
“Goodbye Dad, it was beautiful.”
On Wednesday the 22nd, I posted about my Dad’s rapidly deteriorating condition and what we were both thinking about as we faced the prospect of his death within the next few months. I asked you for prayer that his passing would be a peaceful and painless transition from this life to the next. That prayer was answered unexpectedly just two days later [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
