Faithful & Fruitful Annual Survey – Faithful & Fruitful

What is your age?(Required)

What is your current role?(Required)

Lead Pastor / Senior Pastor

Teaching Pastor

Executive Pastor

Associate Pastor

Youth Pastor

Director

Intern

Volunteer

Other

Denomination or Network Affiliation

Share your denomination and / or any significant network affiliations.

What is the size of your church?(Required)

Total weekend attendance.

City & State(Required)

What best describes your church context?(Required)

Urban

Suburban

Rural

College

Military

Inner-city

What best describes the CURRENT church situation ?(Required)

Church plant

Replanting a dying church

Revitalizing struggling church

Solid, established church

Church merger

Which best describes the church situation WHEN YOU ARRIVED.(Required)

Church plant

Replanting a dying church

Revitalizing struggling church

Solid, established church

Church merger

Other

What is the biggest challenge you’re currently facing in ministry?

Please rank these topics in order of importance to you, from most valuable (TOP) to least valuable (BOTTOM).

Preaching & Communication
Leadership Development
Volunteers & Staff Management
Discipleship & Spiritual Growth
Church Growth & Outreach
Fundraising & Generosity
Managing Conflict
Digital Church Ministry
Church Communications

If you could wave a magic wand and fix one thing in your church tomorrow, what would it be?

What’s something that feels like a struggle in ministry, but you assume “that’s just the way it is”?

What’s an aspect of ministry that you rarely talk about, but secretly wish you had more support in?

When you look back over the past year, what’s something you didn’t realize would be as hard as it turned out to be?

What’s one thing about leading in the church that you wish someone had warned you about?

What’s a frustration or problem in ministry that you’ve tried to solve before, but nothing really worked?

Finish this sentence: “I know I should be focusing more on ________, but I keep getting stuck because ________.”

What is the most impactful supplemental training, resource, or experience you’ve gone through that helped you in ministry (outside of Bible college or seminary)?