Insights to facilitate curiosity, inspire, and guide you.
Our thoughts on leadership, data, and risk management for the church.
How Churches Can Use Data to Measure Spiritual Growth
Looking for ways to better understand and serve your congregation? One powerful tool that can help you do this is data. By collecting and analyzing data about your members, you can gain valuable insights into their spiritual journeys and identify areas where they may need extra support.
More than a Wish and Prayer: How Data and Curiosity Can Find Your Church’s Momentum
Data is just numbers until you get curious enough to find trends and identify momentum. Start with what you want to learn. Find out more.
Creating Your Church’s Risk Management Plan
Risk management matters for churches. Being aware of risk and taking steps to manage it allows you to capture opportunities and stay focused on your mission and loving people like Jesus. Otherwise, you can get stuck on the consequences and fallout of risks left unmanaged.
Risk Management and Your Church
Is risk management really necessary for your church? With pure motivations and God on our side, do we really need to think about risk? The short answer is: yes. Let’s explore.
Part 3: Day 1 of Your Church Data Program
Leadership buy-in? Check. Church data expert? Check. Discovery Phase and an idea of what to track and how to track it? Check. So what’s next for your church data program?
Part 2: Start with Discovery
Part post two of three in our “What You Need to Create a New Church Data Program” series. We focus on discovery in this post.
Part 1: Buy-in from the Beginning
Churches with supportive, invested leaders do really well with taking the next steps on leveraging data as fuel for a growing church. Let’s discuss!
Engagement: What It Is, How We Can Measure It, and Why It Matters for Your Church
Buzzwords often have nuance, and engagement is no exception. We recommend your engagement metrics be tied to your specific community, its work and its needs. Let's dive in!
Buying Data vs. Finding Engaging Moments for Your Church: Part 2
The “quick fix” of purchasing data may solve one problem, but raises a lot of other questions. So, how do you navigate intentional data use? We have some ideas.
Buying Data vs. Finding Engaging Moments for Your Church: Part 1
Where is the ethical line of data use between “helpful for what I actually need” and invasive or inappropriate? So glad you asked. We've got some thoughts.
Mind the Gap: Business Metrics vs Church Metrics
Business and Church: Two Sides of a Similar Coin
What Does “Data” Mean for Your Church?
What is data and how does it relate to carrying out God's mission?