For our CLC-TP family: if you were here Sunday, you heard Pastor Doug’s announcement, but I wanted to give you my heart on this today:

As a pastor, for years I have wanted some way to measure how effective we’re actually being in ministry, and to know how we could better help our people grow in their walk with the Lord.  We’ve tried in lots of different ways to learn and discern what you need and want in order to develop and grow spiritually – but I don’t know that any of our efforts have truly hit the nail on the head.

Finally, another church has spent the money (lots of it) and done the work (lots and lots of it), utilized the expertise of people who are gifted and experienced in those areas, and tested the survey on literally hundreds of churches and over 150,000 people, with wonderful results.

So this weekend we’ll be asking our entire CLC-TP family to take 20-30 minutes to complete the survey for us online.  Your answers are completely anonymous – no one at CLC will know how you answer any question on the survey – but we’ll get a full report later of the percentages of our people in each category and be able to uncover how you’re really doing spiritually – and, most important, what we can do as a church to help you grow in your own walk with the Lord.

Our initial contact will be via email, and we know that our database may not be completely current, so could you insure that we have your correct info on file by sending your address here or by updating all your info in our database here.

One more thing: I know that many CLCers don’t read my blog, so could you let your friends and fellow attenders know about the survey and ask them to participate?  It will be a huge help to me personally.  Thanks – be watching your inbox this weekend!