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 for Christian ministries
Here, in a nutshell, is the issue about strategic planning in a Christian ministry context: What sets the strategic limitations for your ministry – your circumstances or your mission? It can’t be clearer than that. Environmental scans and SWOT analysis, the traditional strategic planning tools, focus too much on your circumstances, the reality of the world [...]
A healthy approach to competition
What’s the best way to convince donors to give to your ministry? This will sound counter-intuitive, but hear me out. I’ve visited hundreds of ministries, heard many leaders explain their program design and rationale, and I know how compelling and confidence-inspiring their explanations are. The greatest opportunity for more effective fundraising is to increase the complexity of [...]
The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling
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 [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
