CLIMATE CHECK  [Return to manual]

This climate check determines to what extent your congregation is geared for outreach and growth. On a scale of 1 (low) to 7 (high), evaluate your congregation's outreach ministry in each numbered item.
 
 
No. Climate Check Item
1 to 7

1.

Our congregation is organized for outreach.

 

2.
Our congregation keeps responsibility for witness and 
social ministry before it's members (sermons, bulletins, communications, classes). 

 

3.
Our congregation has an activist orientation 
(we wish to grow, set goals, funds, and persons are allocated for ministries). 

 

4.
There are as many members working for outreach as there are in 
maintenance ministries. 

 

5.
Our congregation has adequate mechanisms for evaluating the needs, 
and moods of our community so that ministries are relevant. 

 

6.
Our congregation has regular contacts with non-members,community 
organizations, networks which facilitate and inform our ministries. 

 

7.

Our congregation acts and reacts to the affairs of human need.