Feedback Is Vital Going Forward

Things change so fast these days. And the demands of ministry leadership have been as high and complex as they have ever been in the last year.  Not to mention, the way forward seems like a guessing game. 

That’s why Auxano Assessments has pulled together a simple and anonymous survey tool to enable your church to receive candid feedback. Vital to planning and budgeting for the future is to know something about how people will engage with the church in the coming months. 

The survey questions include ones that probe for a shift in type of connection with the church.  What aspect of church life was most helpful to your spiritual growth before the pandemic and what do you anticipate being the most helpful in the future? 

If people no longer view small groups or Sunday school as their lifeline for spiritual formation, this is important to know. Is there reticence to gathering in person that would cause people to prefer to have a virtual small group option going forward? 

Significance:  What if we need to see online ministry as not simply a temporary or “stop gap” measure during the pandemic, but need to resource it more fully as the new normal? 

The survey also contains a question that may allow church leadership to gauge comfortability with change. How much do you anticipate our church will need to adapt its methods to be effective going forward? 

Church leadership may presume that many want to “get back to the way things used to be”. But what if this isn’t as true as we imagine? What if the year has taught everyone (even the most resistant to change) that we must adapt in ways that are necessary to keep the church vibrant and effective? 

Significance:  One of the gifts of the pandemic may be that church leaders may have more freedom to change ministries and strategies that they thought were unmovable. 

Let’s partner together to learn as much as we can to discern the best way forward.  At Auxano Assessments, we firmly believe that if you would benefit from knowing, Just Ask.