“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 [...]
A new agency or a new program?
“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 [...]
Advantages of a large ministry
If I told you that we were going to visit a church called The Chapel on Fir Hill, what would you expect? Well, I did visit this church (about 1990) and when I arrived at the church, I was shocked to say the least! This ‘chapel’ turned out to be a 209,000 s.f. building and there were [...]
A small team doing big things
My wife’s family was a bluegrass gospel band and classical music was not part of their repertoire. So when I bought tickets for us to see Die Fledermaus, a comic opera by Johann Strauss (in English), she told me this would be her first experience of a live, professional orchestra. To whet her appetite, I played a record (yes, [...]
Strategic planning and Christian ministry
I’ve just finished writing a workshop for the upcoming CCCC annual conference. It is #8 on the list of workshop descriptions, “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 [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
