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Ministry Fitness Check

The Ministry Fitness CheckTM is a confidential questionnaire given to church members during a church service. It is designed as a communications and analysis tool for churches. Using the Ministry Fitness CheckTM, church leaders can get a clear picture of how their church people view the church in terms of organizational planning & leadership, evangelism, discipleship, worship, prayer and more.

The first thing I would do [if I became a pastor] is take a survey. I'd want to find out where people are in their religious lives and what are their potentials and frustrations...
Surveys are an invaluable guide to show pastors and leaders the church's levels of belief, knowledge, and practice, which can help pastors deepen beliefs, raise the level of practice, make it more meaningful, and reach out to new people.
George Gallup, Leadership Journal October 1989
The Ministry Fitness CheckTM tool has now been used in over 600 Canadian churches, with an overwhelmingly positive response. This tool is comprised of a multifaceted congregational survey with eleven categories of questions. The fifty-eight questions measure the health of the church across a ministry spectrum, from organizational structure to prayer. It is then processed through a custom designed software package that correlates and analyzes all of the data, producing 33 pages of fascinating, pertinent information.
 
Remarkably, this survey can be administered to the entire body in only 15 to 20 minutes, but the results will give you years' worth of invaluable information, which will assist you in enhancing your church's strengths and in developing minimized areas.
 
Also available is an optional consultation by one of our trained leaders to interpret the results and explore solutions. One of the main goals of this time is to define appropriate goals for each church using our Action Planner.
 
Key Benefits
  • Highly effective communications tool
  • Specific, detailed report package
  • Proven effectiveness in the Canadian context
  • Consultations with our staff multiply benefits of the survey process
  • Integrates into overall church growth process
Pricing

Description
Price**
Survey Data Entry Service Fee
(data entered by OC Staff)
$1.50 per questionnaire
Survey Data Entry Access Fee
(You may arrange to enter your own data)
$0.50 per questionnaire
Standard Report Package (up to 100 surveys)
$275
Church size add-on ($25 for every additional 50 surveys)
$25 
Custom Questions (maximum of 12)
Set of first 3 questions
Each additional question

$10 for the first 3
$4 per question
 
OC Staff Consultation
by agreement

 
Sample A: OC Data Entry
For a church with 260 surveys (OC data entry) costs would be:
Standard report package (includes up to 100 surveys)      $275 
Plus two add-ons (60 additional surveys at $25 per 50)    $  50
Data entry by OC staff (260 surveys at $1.50 ea)                 $390 
Total Cost    $715  
 
Sample B: You Arrange Data Entry
For a church with 260 surveys (you enter data) costs would be:
Standard report package (includes up to 100 surveys)     $275 
Plus two add-ons (60 additional surveys at $25 per 50)   $   50
Own data entry    (260 surveys at $.50 ea)                            $130 
Total Cost    $455  

Custom questions are additional and are set up with assistance from your coach.        
                         
**Prices are in Canadian dollars. Adjust for exchange rate for US price comparison.
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