What Do We Evaluate
To give you an overall picture of where you’ve been and where you’re going, we’ll review the following information about your church.
You may not have some of these records, and that’s okay. We’ll work with what you provide. You can also choose to provide or not to provide any of the information below for up to the past 10 years:
Statistical Record Review
- Worship attendance
- Bible Study attendance
- Number of Salvation Decisions
- Number of Baptisms (Plus Age Categories of those being baptized)
- Number of Guests
- Number of Members
- VBS Records (i.e., attendance, number of first time guests, number of guests, number of salvation decisions, etc.)
- Camp Records (i.e., attendance, number of first time guests, number of guests, number of salvation decisions, etc.)
- Budget (You don’t have to provide this or you can provide a budget snapshot since some churches are guarded about salaries, etc. We don’t review your budget to give you financial advice. We primary look at it because how you spend your money tells us what is important to you. We also look at giving trends.)
Website Review
Your church’s website is the front door for newcomers—whether they are brand new to the community or have lived there for years. But it’s often hard to see our website the way a first-time visitor would. That’s where an outside perspective can help. We will provide you with a professional church website evaluation that addresses the following:
- Discover what guests are seeing on your site.
- Find out what kind of first impression you are making.
- Does your site have the one main thing that most church websites lack?
- How can your site be more effective?
- How does your church website rank with search engines (in other words, how easily can people find it)?
- What is the performance rank of your website?
- What current features are helping other churches grow their ministries?
Process Questions
You may not have answer to these questions and that’s okay–We’ll help you evaluate and provide suggestions for the future.
- Guest Follow-Up – What is your process for following up on people who visit your church?
- Decision Follow-Up – What is your process for following up on people make decisions?
- Discipleship – What is your process for training disciples?
- Administrative – When do you plan? How do you calendar?
- Giving – How do you engage people with giving? What kind of giving opportunities do you provide?
