community survey questions（社区调查的问题）.docVIP

Surveys in Church Planting Surveys can be useful in church planting for a variety of reasons: To help you better understand your community and her needs so that you can design ministries and messages that will bring God’s help to those needs To help you identify prospects for the church To open up witnessing opportunities To directly minister to the residents of the community in some way (such as prayer or servant evangelism, etc.) To increase awareness of your new church in the community To identify “persons of peace” who may help you in a variety of ways, such as opening their homes for community Bible studies, Backyard Bible Clubs for children, etc. Other reasons that you decide The first thing to determine is the purpose of the survey. The questions you ask will be determined by your purpose. In other words, if your purpose is truly to learn the needs of the community to help you design ministries to help, your questions will be different than if your purpose is door-to-door evangelism. You may be able to accomplish more than one of the purposes above in a survey, but you cannot likely accomplish them all. Below are several surveys that have we have compiled. There will be similarities in many of them. We included some that are almost identical just to give you ideas of different ways to word different questions that will hopefully give you the responses you are seeking. Some are formatted for using outside groups that may come in and help you. You may be able to get some preprinted forms from Evangelism or Sunday School Ministries of the state convention. Additional thoughts: Some like to give something away, e.g., a light bulb or a battery (for smoke detectors) as an example of a desire to be helpful and friendly. Always have some kind of information about your church to leave with the respondent. Asking if the person would like results of the survey gives you an opportunity to share more later through mail, email, or a return visit. Some are doing a s