20 Questions You Need to Ask About Your Ministry

Do you want to improve your ministry? Here are 20 questions you can ask on a regular basis. The answers you discover can help your ministry grow and move past obstacles that are currently standing in your way. These are great questions to talk through as a team. #1 - How do we follow up with guests? How can we improve this? #2 - What is our on boarding process for new volunteers? Is it effective? #3 - How are our ratios of volunteers to kids? #4 - What percentage of our congregation are children? #5 - What are we doing to stay connected to today's kid culture? #6 - What safety and security safeguards do we have in place? #7 - What are we doing to help our volunteers grow in their ministry skills? #8 - How can we encourage and motivate children to bring their unchurched friends? #9 - How can we see more children become followers of Jesus? #10 - What can we do to partner with parents better? #11 - What tools can we place in parent's hands so they can better disciple their children? #12 - What do we need to stop doing? #13 - What program is tired and needs to be revitalized? #14 - What is the one thing that is hindering us from going to the next level? #15 - Are we seeing kids take steps of faith like salvation, baptism, serving, etc.? How can we see more kids take these steps? #16 - Are our volunteers excited about the ministry? If not, how can we make the ministry a place where they love to serve? #17 - Is our ministry a fun place for kids? Do we hear the sounds of laughter and giggles in the hallways and classrooms? #18 - What are we doing to reach kids and families outside the walls of our church? #19 - Does the church have the perception that children's ministry is simply childcare? How can we influence the church to see children's ministry as a priority and that it reaches people at the most critical time in their lives? #20 - What have we not talked about that we need to talk about? Once you've answered these questions, put together some action steps that will help you with implementation.