Cultivated Ministry is a culture shift for assessment, evaluation, and (re)design aimed at nurturing thoughtful expressions of God’s mission in the world.
Traditional Metrics are Inadequate
How do we recognize success in ministry? There used to be a widely held and simple answer to this question: success is measured by growth in membership, attendance, and financial support. However, increasingly these traditional metrics have proved inadequate for measuring the effectiveness of communities of faith.
Instead of searching for new ways of measuring, we revert to what we know, perpetuating a status quo.
We must develop meaningful ways to measure effectiveness.
If what we are doing matters in our lives and in the world, we must develop meaningful ways to measure effectiveness and hold each other accountable to the ongoing mission of justice and wholeness to which we are called.
Instead of complacency with the way we’ve always done it or ignoring the realities of numerical decline, we must commit ourselves to new ways of determining what successful ministry looks like.
This resource is more than a new set of metrics or a collection of plug-and-play tools. Instead, Cultivated Ministry is a culture shift for assessment, evaluation, and (re)design aimed at nurturing thoughtful expressions of God’s mission in the world.
Cultivated Ministry is an invitation to embody practices that create the conditions for faithful intentions to be discerned, evaluated, and thrive.
Cultivated Ministry is a culture shift for assessment, evaluation, and (re)design.
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COACHING
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WORKSHOPS
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LEADERSHIP RETREATS
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Learn more about Cultivated Ministry from these blog posts from the designers and writers, plus those who piloted the project in their contexts.
PROJECT SPONSORS
We give thanks to the sponsors of this project. Their sponsorship has allowed Cultivated Ministry field guide be a free resource to all church leaders.
The Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Texas Presbyterian Foundation
Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Presbyterian Foundation
First Presbyterian Church of Shreveport, LA
Wayne Presbyterian Church of Wayne, PA
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