Dr. John Plastow is currently serving Academy Christian Church in Colorado Springs as the executive pastor and as an executive coach and strategic and creative consultant to churches, having recently completed 40 years in local church ministry in Northern California and Colorado. Through his consulting, John wants to help churches become more effective and calm the chaos of ministry. John is an adjunct member of the faculty at multiple Christian universities including Belhaven University, Colorado Christian University, Tabor College, Bryan College, and Southeastern University teaching courses relating to organizational leadership, management, business ethics, strategic planning, doctoral-level leadership, Christian worldview, HR, and a variety of courses pertaining to church ministry and executive leadership. For over thirty years, John has been a featured clinician and conference presenter throughout the country and has published a wide variety of dramatic musical scripts for most gospel music industry publishing companies. Most recently, John has been published in academic circles for ethics and organizational practices and in the popular press for leadership. His latest publications included The Humility Factor: Healthy churches are led by humble pastors, and the article, Coaching Up: Concept and implementation between first- and second-level leaders.
John holds a bachelor of arts degree in music and theatre arts from the University of Redlands, ministry credentials from Evangelical Church Alliance, a master of science degree in organization and management with a specialization in leadership from Capella University, and a doctor of strategic leadership degree (DSL) from Regent University.
John’s passion is leadership, including investing into the lives of future leaders. John’s desire is to be a servant leader who uses his strengths, gifts, abilities, personality, and experience with passion, authenticity and integrity to pour his life into helping other leaders achieve great things for the kingdom of God beyond their wildest dreams.
He and Karen have been married for 46 years and have three fabulous children: John, Melody and Heather.