Church Inner West implements the programmes as well as services without knowing about need of the community. In case yours is to become thriving, a visible church, then it’s quite important to conduct a Community Needs Assessment” first for identifying the priority fields. Then, congregation needs to make it aware about the current resources for addressing the particular issues which have been identified. Church may then focus all the energies as well as resources towards the gaols in the services which exist and not duplication of the services which place the people in competition with the other churches or the communities.
Data from the assessment of community needs could be synthesized as well as expounded for identifying best opportunities of outreach and best of opportunities for collaborating and supporting the existing services.
Understanding the congregation
Simultaneously, a Good Samaritan also took stock of all the resources available for fulfilling the needs of mankind. Congregational survey helps in assessing the attitudes, needs, giving habits, priorities, etc. for helping determine the direction of the church. There are certain well established standard surveys but with an increasing diversity of congregations and denominations, its best to often custom develop he survey to requirements of the individual congregations. Similarly, the leadership survey also analyses the smaller subsets of congregation serving in the leadership. Along with the survey, the assessment of surveys also helps in identifying the resources within congregation which might prove to be useful for implementation of the new projects and programs. The resources which have been identified include the occupational abilities, financial resources, time available, willingness for serving and the spiritual gifts.
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