Have you been meaning to conduct a survey of your congregation for a while now, but other responsibilities keep pushing it to the side? You’re not the only church leader to experience this. While checking in with your congregation is important, it’s likely not your top priority. Conducting a church survey can often feel like something that can be done later—when you have more time and when other things aren’t so pressing. If you’re honest with yourself, though, you know that a break in your schedule may never come. There’s always something that needs your attention more, and frankly, doing a church survey just doesn’t seem that important in comparison.
Creating a church survey from scratch and figuring out how to effectively administer it can take a good amount of time—time that you probably don’t feel like you have. You have to decide which survey template to use, come up with the questions, send the survey out to your congregation, collect the results, and then attempt to interpret those results. Just thinking about doing all of this can be overwhelming!
This is one of the reasons why VitalChurch Ministry created the Church Vitality Survey (CVS). We’ve worked with enough church leaders to know that most of them can’t realistically take on any more tasks without being negatively affected. Even if the new task is a good thing—there’s just no more time in the work week!
When you purchase the CVS, you get a ready-made survey that takes very little time on your part to effectively administer. All the hard work is done for you! Our team came up with the survey questions and formatted them so they are ready to send out. The survey responses come directly to us for processing, and we provide you with results in an easy-to-understand format that includes charts and a short analysis of the results for each survey question.
Probably the most valuable piece of the CVS is the follow-up phone call you get with someone from the VitalChurch Ministry diagnostic team to discuss the survey results. On your one-hour call, you can ask questions and get some advice about the best ways for your church to proceed, based on the feedback from your congregation. Our diagnostic experts have many years of experience working with churches and can offer valuable insight into your church’s situation. This type of follow-up is something we don’t think you’ll find with any other church survey at this price point!
While completing our church survey isn’t completely hands off on your part, the few things that are required of you are clearly spelled out in the packet that accompanies the survey, and most of the tasks can be done by someone on your church’s support staff. Your main job will be to encourage participation among your congregation, because the greater the participation rate, the better and more useful your results will be.
To learn more about the CVS, including the types of data the survey will reveal, click here. If you have any questions that aren’t answered on that page, please feel free to contact us. Someone from the VitalChurch Ministry staff will get back to you right away to answer them.