John Marshall Crowe

Rev. John Marshall Crowe is an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church and a full member of the North Carolina Conference who is now retired. He wrote a quarterly church health column for Sharing The Practice: The International Journal for Parish Clergy for ten years. In 2002, he launched a web site to equip healthier clergy and churches which includes a page with a list of ministries for clergy and clergy spouses who need care. The name of the site is churchhealthdevelopment.com His experience with mental illness in his family led him to advocate for the mentally ill and their families within the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. He received the 2002 Mental Health Association in North Carolina President's Award in appreciation for his efforts. In 2004, he was elected to serve as a member of the NC-NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) Board of Directors. He is a certified teacher of NAMI’s Family to Family Educational Course for relatives of the mentally ill. His web site also contains several pages related to the church's ministry to the mentally ill and their families. In 1979, he received the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina; the Master of Divinity degree in 1983 and the Doctor of Ministry degree in 2001 from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He and his wife, Donna have two grown sons.