You might have come to this resource page looking for samples of assessments, audits, and evaluations. Ideas for questions to ask about church life in general and specific ministry areas follow a list of articles that lay the foundation for using such tools in church ministry.
Start with a Good Understanding of the Use of Assessments, Audits, and Evaluation in Ministry
Get a Biblical Handle on the Use of Assessments
Make Sure Questions and the Use of Assessments Align with God’s Purposes, Design, and Mission for the Church
- The Right Standard for Assessments
- Using Assessment Results in Ways that Line Up
- Guard Body Life When Doing Assessments
- Great Commission: Encompassing or Complicated?
Move from Mere Human Evaluation to a Spiritual Process
- Christ-like Standard in Assessments
- Assessments Leading to Eternal Results?
- Alignment with the Gospel in the Assessment Process
- Need for Grace in the Assessment Process
- Involvement of the Holy Spirit in the Assessment Process
- Prayer in the Assessment Process
- Concerned with His Name in the Assessment Process?
- Don’t Like the Results of an Assessment?
- Pulling on Spiritual Gifting in the Assessment Process
- Use of Spiritual Weapons in the Assessment Process
Understand the Leader’s Role in Doing Assessments
- A Leader’s Roles in Assessments
- Guide the Assessment Process
- Leadership Ministry: Critique Standards for Evaluating Success
- Leadership Skill: Assessment
Other Miscellaneous Thoughts about Evaluating, Assessing, and Auditing Ministry
- 12 Lessons I’ve Learned About Ministry Evaluations
- Beware of Church Assessments
- Church Assessment
- Church Ministry Needs Assessment
- Evaluate to Elevate: How Seeking Feedback Changes Your Ministry
- How to Assess Your Church’s Well-Being
- Ministry Assessments Not an End in Themselves
- The Quick, Easy, and Helpful Church Evaluation
- Why You Must Evaluate Your Ministry and How You Can Do It Well
Help Assessing Church Life and Specific Areas of Ministry
The following links will take you to helpful resources. Some will provide sample questions while others are informational. These listings are not intended to be comprehensive but rather a starting point. An Internet search will offer more possibilities. Any pre-fab assessment tools should be tailored to your church and aligned with the basics as described in the above articles.
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Church Life in General:
- 5 Critical Steps After Every Kidmin Event – debriefing that could be done with any kind of event, not just children’s ministry
- 7 Practical Questions to Evaluate Your Church Ministries
- 8 Good Questions to Evaluate Your Church
- Assessment Questions from the Great Commission
- Becoming a Healthy Church: 10 Traits of a Vital Ministry by Stephen A. Macchia — includes an assessment
- Church Ministry Needs Assessment Questions
Accessibility:
- Aspects of Accessible Worship – Reflective Assessment
- Church Accessibility Audit
- Church Annual Accessibility Audit Checklist Form
Church Growth Readiness:
- 8 Predictors of Church Growth: Understanding the Rainer Predictive Index
- Church Growth Readiness Assessment: Is Your Church Ready?
- Is Your Church’s Attendance Headed in the Right Direction? Free Church Assessment
- Unstuck Church Assessment
Discipleship – Spiritual Growth Assessment:
- Assessing Christ-like Character
- Assessing Christ-like Conduct & Conversation
- Creating a Spiritual Growth Assessment to Track Your Church’s Discipleship
- How to Measure Discipleship in Your Church
- Spiritual Growth Assessment Process
- The Christian Life Profile Assessment Workbook Updated Edition: Developing Your Personal Plan to Think, Act, and Be Like Jesus by Randy Frazee — or ebook
Facilities:
- Church Facilities Survey
- Church Facility Audit: A Self-Guide to Evaluating and Improving Your Ministry Space
- Facility Condition Assessment (scroll down for questions)
Finances:
- Church Annual Internal Audit Checklist Form
- How to Conduct a Church Audit: Easy Steps to Build Trust
- Preparing for an Audit: A Church’s Guide
- The Who, What, When and How of Church Internal Audits
- Why a Church Audit? The Benefits of an Outside Perspective on the Financial Statements
Hospitality:
- Church Hospitality Assessment
- Church Hospitality Survey Assessment or Audit
- Free Ways You can Assess your Welcome Experience (scroll down)
Leadership Style:
- Dramatic Leadership Assessment Test (explained at What’s Your Leadership Style?)
- Leadership Style Assessment
Missions Engagement:
- Church Missions Assessment
- Church Assessment for Sending
- Missions Assessment Profile
- The Missions Matrix: A Simple Tool To Assess Your Church’s Missions Engagement
Personality:
- Biblical DISC® Profile
- Christian DISC® Assessment
- Free DISC Test
- How Churches Can Use Personality Assessments to Hire and Build Stronger Teams
- Personality Test: Are You a Leader, Thinker, Talker, or Peacemaker?
Safety/Security:
- A Security Survey for Houses of Worship
- Church Risk Assessment Form
- Church Security Assessment
- Risk Control Service Security Assessment
Small Groups:
Spiritual Gifts:
- Online Spiritual Gifts Test – free to take online; results not saved in database
- Everybody Has a Part Spiritual Gifts Tests Resource – low-cost, one-time purchase of manual scoring tests with handouts and permission to make unlimited copies for your church or ministry
- Discover Your Spiritual Gifts the Network Way: 4 Assessments for Determining Your Spiritual Gifts by Bruce L. Bugbee – tests provided in a book format
- ServeWire VES (Volunteer Engagement System) – monthly or yearly subscription fee for churches to access customizable online SHAPE and spiritual gifts test that saves results and helps connect people to ministry
Staff:
- Articles about Staff Evaluations
- Smart Church Staff Evaluations: A Guide To Performance Appraisals That Motivate, Develop & Reward Church Employees by Patricia S Lotich
- The Conversation Evaluation
Teaching Ministry:
- In a Teacher Training Rut? – Evaluations Aren’t Just for Accountability
- Measuring Effectiveness of Sunday School Ministry
- Questions to Evaluate Your Christian Education Ministry
- Students Evaluating Their Teachers
Teams:
- Becoming a Healthy Team: 5 Traits of Vital Leadership by Stephen A. Macchia – includes an assessment
Unstuck Teams Assessment (scroll down)
Worship: