Updated: April 18, 2006

Missions Check Up

…How healthy is your church in missions? David Mays

It is difficult to think outside the box when you are in it. And it is difficult to evaluate the health of your church when it comprises the great majority of your church experience.

A number of books have been written about church health. However, most of these books give little attention to the health of the church in regard to its major mission, the global spread of the good news of Jesus.

In this document, all the church’s efforts to reach and minister to people across cultural barriers and all the work to enhance and sustain those efforts are called “missions.”

The following is intended to help you diagnosis the health of your church in regard to missions and to consider some possible next steps.

Click on the category that best describes your church.

Missions Health Categories

Get the Initiative360 Missions Assessment Profile (MAP) to evaluate the health of your church in twelve categories of missions: Church Leaders, Missions Team, Strategy, Biblical Foundations, Education, Involvement, Prayer, Giving, Missionary Care, Local Outreach, Short Term, Missionary Training. Call Initiative360 at 877-662-1040. .

Passion:

Reaching the world for Christ is the primary motivation of our congregation.

Purpose:

Reaching the world for Christ is a major purpose for our existence as a church.

Priority:

Missions is one of our most important programs.

Program:

Missions is one of the regular, ongoing programs of our church.

Project:

We do not have an ongoing missions program. Periodically we do things or give money for missions.

Possibility:

Our people may support missionaries or missions projects or go on mission trips.