Podcast Description

Dave and Bo are joined by Jason Clark who is the Student Pastor at Sun Valley Community Church and serves at the Tempe Campus. In this episode we address practical tools and tips to evaluate your ministry. Jason shares two frameworks of evaluation that they use at Sun Valley. At the end Dave walks through 4 areas to evaluate and questions for each area. Be sure to participate in the State of the Youth Workers Survey that you can find in the Show Notes.

Jason Clark Bio

Jason is the Student Pastor at Sun Valley Community Church which is a multisite church in the Phoenix area. Jason has served at the Tempe Campus since 2018. He is married to Becca and they have two boys, Xander and Paxton.

STATE OF YOUTH WORKERS SURVEY

You've probably seen the data from Barna in late 2021 that said 38% of pastors have thought about quitting vocational ministry (and 46% of pastors under 45). Kinnaman has said recently that he expects the latest round of data to be even higher.

LEADStaffing is doing the work to determine the true state of youth workers in 2022, but we need your help. Will you take two minutes to fill out this survey?

HOW TO EVALUATE YOUR MINISTRY

MYSELF

  • Do I have a healthy spiritual life?
  • How am I managing my time?
  • What is one habit I need to be more effective in?
  • When you are home, how can you be more present with your family?

METHODS

  • Go through each program and ask what is right, wrong, missing, confusing
  • After that discovery, ask what next steps need to be done
  • What is the language you use? Is it insider language or can a visitor or new believer understand next steps?
  • Online ministry? What is it accomplishing? Is it creating community?

PEOPLE

  • Do your small group leaders know what a win is?
  • When evaluating your calendar, how much time is spent investing in leaders?
  • Do your leaders know how to walk through with someone to accept Christ?
  • How many leaders do you currently have? How many do you need?

PROCESSES

  • Does your church use a database? Do you know how to use it to the best of your ability? If not, what do you need to do to learn it better?
  • Is the process to onboard leaders the most effective? Background checks? When they come on to the team, do they know what their role is?
  • What are your measurables to see if you are healthy?
  • How do you communicate with your team - students - parents - leaders? Is this the best way to communicate? Have you asked them?

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