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Assessing Your Church's Community Can be a Path to great ministry! PDF Print E-mail

You may think you already know your community, after all people bring their needs to your doorstep every day, but how do you know yours is the best place to meet those needs? 

A community assessment can give you the information you need to be the best stewards of the resources God has given you.  Not only will a community assessment show you things you do not know about your community, but it will open doors to relationships in new and exciting ways.  As you interview community service organizations, businesses, community leaders, residents, religious organizations and church members you will learn many things:

  • You’ll see more clearly what God is doing in your community
  • You’ll learn what resources and strengths are in your community that might be of assistance to you in the ministry God has called you to You’ll hear what the community thinks of your ministry.  (This might be one of the most valuable pieces of information you’ll gather!)
  • You’ll find new possibilities for collaborations You’ll uncover the gaps  in ministry in your community
  • You’ll be able to discover whether or not your ministry is meeting the most pressing needs in your community or duplicating other capable ministries You’ll discover hundreds of possibilities of ministry. 

If you can’t find a ministry to do after a community assessment, you just don’t want to do ministry! 

See the Church & Community Ministry Evangelism section of our Resource page to find great tools to help you know your community better including the Community Assessment Manual document.

 
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