To be a successful ministry, you must ask tough questions about your ministry’s performance. Andy Harrington, Executive Director at Greater Vancouver Youth For Christ (GVYFC), did just that. His analysis is a model literature review and performance analysis, and best of all, he’s willing to share his report with you. Eleven years ago Andy wrote a thesis [...]
Theological Leadership
One of the research findings from my dissertation on church-agency relations is that many Christian agency leaders do not have formal theological training. The pastors said this is a problem. Since agencies are Christian ministries, I recommend that at least the senior leader of a Christian agency get some formal theological training, not just to please pastors [...]
Performance ratings for charities
Here are my thoughts on the latest attempt to rate charities by MoneySense. Overall, I think the approach is better than others we’ve seen in Canada because they went beyond the information available in the T3010 government return and asked the charities to complete a survey on topics such as governance, privacy and transparency. They also [...]
Require and Relate: The paradox of good leadership
A ministry leader told me that he bases his leadership style on R&R. No, he’s not taking it easy all the time. I’m sure he gets an appropriate amount of rest and relaxation, but he defines R&R as “Require and Relate.” Requiring happens when a leader sets out performance standards and evaluates to see if the standards [...]
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, [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
