Developing Values, Mission & Vision for Christian ministries

Special Invitation! CCCC is in the midst of a major strategic review.  If you’d like to interact with us as the review progresses, please visit the Strategic Review Engagement website.  I want to open source the strategic review by having as many non-board, non-staff people engage with us as possible.  In this blog, I am writing about [...]

Strategic statements and Christian ministries

CCCC is reviewing its strategic statements and as we do, I’m doing my best to be faithful to our Christian identity and leave room for God to speak into the process. Over a couple of posts I will lay out a review process which I hope you will find fresh, stimulating and effective. The Strategic [...]

Strategic planning that will amaze Jesus!

I sure would appreciate getting your perspective on the topic of the day!!!  How much risk are you prepared to accept for your ministry based on faith that God will provide?  Do you have big faith that God will provide and then you act?  Or do you have big faith that God will provide when [...]

It’s (not) lonely at the top!

“It’s lonely at the top” is true only if you want it to be.  It doesn’t have to be that way, but when there is no one a leader feels comfortable discussing the really challenging issues with, it truly is lonely.  In that case, it seems inevitable that some day either a challenge or the person’s own blindness [...]

A great example of organizational self-examination

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 [...]

Rev. John Pellowe
   Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin