I feel like a new daddy again tonight as I hold my long anticipated (but too frequently edited) book that has arrived from the printer. The desire for perfection and the conflicting desire to get it in your hands have finally converged and The Church At Work: A manual for excellent church-agency relations has been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
