DMin project Initial Survey of How Effective are we at casting the Mission, Vision and Core Values of our Congregation.

Day 8b -  "And the Results of Our Survey are ...."

On Sunday, January 28th, a survey was handed out to each person in worship and they were asked to fill them out to the best of their ability.  The Surveys were distributed and explained in the opening of worship.  We weren't grading folks father this was a measure of our the church leadership in our ability to effectively share the Mission, Vision, and Core Values of Westminster UMC with the congregation in such a way that people knew them by heart.  What we are looking at is a baseline.

The survey consisted of three fill in the blanks (answers in red) and three Yes/No questions:

• The Mission Statement of Westminster UMC is 
• Changing lives through Jesus Christ to make a difference!
• We celebrate Nine Core Values. They are:
• Bible
• Church Family
• Discipleship
• Evangelism
• Extravagant Hospitality
• Mission 
• Prayer
• Unity and Diversity 
• Worship
• We believe that God has given us four visions for our congregation. They are:
• No Lonely People 
• Establishing a Small Group Ministry 
• Encourage member to know and use their Spiritual gifts in meaningful places of Christian service. 
• Serve into the world starting with the five block radius around Center and Main.  
• Are you active in serving on a team in our church?  (Yes/No)
• Is it important for an organization to have mission, vision and core values statements? (Yes/No)
• Do the Mission, Vision and Core Values of Westminster UMC encourage you to serve? (Yes/No)

We had a 103 responses from a worship attendance of 275

Here are the results of the survey (The Abs = abstain from response) 

A general observation is that we are not currently effective in promoting and gaining ownership by our congregation. of the Mission, Vision and Core Values of Westminster UMC. It is interesting to note that 82 of the 103 responds reported that it is important for an organization to have Mission, Vision and Core Value Statements, however, only 59 felt that it motivated them to serve in some form. 

The back of each form provided a place where addtional comments could be written.  These responses will be provided in tomorrow's blog.  

As a side note, as the congregation left for the day, each of those who attended was given a brochure that details our Mission, Vision and Core Values.  The answer sheet to the questions that they filled out in worship.