“We had been around for seven years and had reached our capacity organizationally. We either had to stop, cancel half our programs, compromise in some way or hire fundraising staff so we could raise more money so we could hire more staff. Or, we could look for someone bigger who could do all that and let me play [...]
A rose by any other name…
I surveyed over 500 pastors and executive directors of Christian ministries a while ago (here are the results) and discovered there is a concensus that how we refer to non-local church Christian ministries is a problem. Both pastors and executive directors objected to calling non-denominational ministries “parachurch” because para means alongside (hence outside). They see unaffiliated ministry [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
