Facts and logic can engage the mind, but if you want to motivate people so that they act enthusiastically and with real commitment, if you want to persuade them to adopt a particular course of action or way of being, you have to engage their hearts, and a great way to do that is by [...]
Storytelling: The key to retaining your ministry’s Christian identity
Do Christian ministries lose their Christian identities? Yes. Could it happen to your ministry? Yes. Can you prevent it? Yes. How do you prevent it? Well, you have to tell stories. But let’s lay the groundwork for storytelling first. Christian Horizons is fighting to retain its Christian identity by appealing a ruling of the Ontario Human [...]
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 [...]
Harvard Business School: Final Reflections
Well, I’m home from an amazing seven days at HBS. From noon last Sunday to noon Saturday, this was a whirlwind of learning and thinking like I’ve never experienced. Those of you in nonprofit leadership, you have to go. It’s running next summer from July 18 – 24 and is worth every penny. Check it out. [...]
What to do with hard-to-measure mission statements
Well, I’ve just finished the first full day at Harvard’s nonprofit leadership course and so far each class session has boiled down to one or two key ideas. This is very helpful because it makes it easier for us to take what we have learned back to our ministries. One of the cases we looked at [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
