Last winter, someone mentioned in passing that a local ministry leader had to step down because of a moral failure. I replied, “Wouldn’t it be great if there were an early warning signal which alerted people that they were near the edge of the slippery slope that ends with loss of integrity, so they could nip the [...]
A passion for your mission
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dreams and Discernment
I had a dream the other night about a cowboy who was no good at rounding up cattle, so he became a fisherman. I woke up chuckling about a wrangler becoming an angler! Aside from proving that I do have a sense of humour when I’m unconscious (though I hope I can be funny when conscious too), [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
