Evaluation Tools for Churches
A bibliography of tools to help churches evaluate and improve their ministries
Guided Evaluation Tools
- The MWD Ministry Team can walk your church through several different, more casual, in-house evaluation tools. Ask for more info.
- Church Equippers (how to get unstuck as a church) (contact Colby for coaching)
- Church Staff Health Evaluation - by ChurchStaffing.com
- The GO Center - a variety of tools (fee-based). Select the "Initiatives" menu item.
- Patheway Ministries (pastor and church coaching, interim services) (note: not to be confused with the Pathway church leader training)
- Relational Wisdom 360 - going beyond emotional intelligence
- Walking the Walls (step-by-step coaching to build healthy teams & grow your ministry, led by a district church member Joe Chenoweth)
Self-guided Evaluation Tools
- 9 Marks of a Healthy Church, by Mark Dever
- A Critique of 9 Marks by Jackson Wu
- Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities of Healthy Churches
- Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources 2019
- Church Health Assessment from RHMA
- Demographic reports: Contact Colby and he can run a detailed demographics report for any zip code or hand-drawn boundary.
- Diagnosing the Heart of Your Church: How Church Leaders Can Assess Systemic Corporate Dysfunction (Church Cardiology Series), by Mark Barnard
- The Eighth Letter: What is Jesus saying to your church?, by Mark Barnard and Kenneth Quick
- Exponential’s Free e-Books
- Healing the Heart of Your Church: How Ministry Leaders Can Facilitate Corporate Healing (Church Cardiology Series), by Kenneth Quick
- Healthy Church
- Life Cycle - take a survey to see where your church is in the normal life cycle graph. You may need revitalization!
- Membership classes - Welcome to the Family
- Natural Church Development church assessment tools
- Tools for your Board from ECFA
- Women Ministry Leaders - “Prepared” is cohort-based training program to equip women for leadership within the church
American Church Group's most requested forms
There are so many additional forms, resources and checklists on Brotherhood Mutual’s Safety Library online. You can also access Legal Assist where you can submit your questions directly to Brotherhood Mutual’s legal team for additional guidance.
- Facility Use Agreement Form
- Participation Waiver Form
- Driver Screening Form
- Equipment Use Agreement
- Short-Term Trip Agreement
- Notice of Injury Form
- Photo Use Agreement
- Property Inventory
- Volunteer Application
- Volunteer Renewal Application