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A key component of effective ministry intelligence is identifying what information to gather and assessing it meaningfully. In my experience as a church leader, our staff prayed weekly for submitted prayer requests but lacked specifics about recurring themes or changes over time.

For churches, data security should be a top priority today. While technology can help churches become more efficient and better serve their members, it...

Administration, data, and software aren’t the first topics people consider when they think of ministry. But back-office systems play a huge role in supporting front-line ministries by keeping track of volunteers, events, and key details. A good system will show ministry leaders which parents belong to each child in the nursery and where people are in the discipleship process.

Are you the type who sees a mess and ignores it, or one who can’t do anything else until the mess is clean? Even if you tend to face the mess head-on, sometimes the hardest part can be knowing where to start. Like any system, to keep Planning Center working most efficiently, you will want to clean up your data at regular intervals.

Every quarter, The Unstuck Group compiles all the data collected using our Vital Signs Assessment tool to monitor trends in churches in the United States and around the world and releases it in a quarterly Unstuck Church Report. Churches recently completed the assessment to help us get a picture of where there is health and where churches appear to be getting stuck. We share 3 important findings here.

Who are the people in your neighborhood? Your church database is an incredible tool to help you discover unmet ministry needs for the folks who live, work, and play in your community. These steps will help you gain insights with your own neighborhood research.

Who are the people in your neighborhood? Your church database is an incredible tool to help you discover unmet ministry needs for the folks who live, work, and play in your community. These steps will help you gain insights with your own neighborhood research.

  If you can count it, you can track it. With ChurchMetrics.com, you can get a completely free cloud-based tool that lets you see aggregate reporting...