Pawlowski is also founder and pastor of Street Church Ministries (SCM), a group no longer recognized as a religious or charitable organization by the Canadian government.
[citation needed] In 2012, for his support of Israel, he received the Honorary Chaplain Position for the Province of Alberta from the Christian Friends of Canadian Magen David Adom (CFMDA).
[5][6] In 2011 Bishop Dr. Gerry Kibarabara,[7] the secretary general of United Christian Churches of Kenya's Supreme Council, presented Pawlowski with honorary ordination for his humanitarian work in Africa.
[5] As of October 2013, Pawlowski continued to hold "prayer meetings inside the Calgary City Hall's main atrium despite eight years of legal issues including "several court cases, hundreds of bylaw tickets and trespassing notices.".
[23][24][25] Later, Pawlowski was arrested by the Calgary Police Service and charged for organizing, promoting and attending an illegal in-person gathering that violated evidence-based public health orders.
[32] On 25 November 2021, Justice Jo-Anne Strekaf of the Alberta Court of Appeal countermanded the ruling until the case was heard on its full merits on 14 June 2022.
[34] The Alberta Court of Appeals subsequently suspended the sanctions due to AHS procedural issues, and considered the 3 days in prison and 10 months of probation served, as well as a $10,000 fine, as suitable punishments for the offences committed in violation of public health orders.
[36] Pawlowski was arrested on 7 February 2022 at the Coutts, Alberta border crossing blockade after encouraging protesters to back out of an agreement they had made with RCMP to leave the area.
[38] On 16 February, Alberta Provincial Court Judge Erin Olsen denied bail for Pawlowski, saying "there is a substantial likelihood that the accused will, if released from custody, continue on offending.
[42] In February 2023, Pawlowski was on trial at Lethbridge Court and pled not guilty to charges of mischief, breaching a release order, and damaging or destroying essential infrastructure during the Canada convoy protest at Coutts.
[43] The charges partly relate to a speech that Pawlowski delivered on February 3, 2022 which encouraged protestors to defy police orders to clear the area.
Justice Gordon Krinke did not make a ruling on the charge of breaching the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act due to a constitutional challenge submitted by Pawlowski's lawyer.