Percept Tools for
Congregational and Ministry Development
Percept is a company the Diocese of Virginia has contracted with to provide demographic and ethnographic information to aid congregations in understanding their ministry context better. Percept provides basic tools that are helpful to a group or a congregation to better discern the needs of the community and to help develop a plan of action to respond to those needs. Congregations of the diocese may access this information and tools through accessing this web site: www.link2lead.com. Once on the site one can benefit from having access to basic tools offered by Percept.
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First View: A six page report of demographic and ethnographic information within a three mile radius of your physical church location. This report provides population growth, ethnic presence, generational information as well as income, education and community concerns, It is free to congregations that fall within the coverage area of the Percept study done for the Diocese.
M.A.P.: The Ministry Area Profile provides abundant demographics, religious preferences, and community concerns of a specifically designated study area. It provides a tool for new church plant strategy and for existing congregations to gain insight into their particular ministry area. The cost is $150.00
ReVision: This tool will help your congregation answer the question, ''Are we a church for ourselves, or are we a church for this community?” Using exhaustive demographic and ethnographic information and a congregational survey it seeks to provide a comparative conversation between congregation and community. The cost is $570, plus 95 cents for each survey.
Read our article, Percept's ReVision: A Direction-setting Process
Value
An essential tool for those putting
together a discernment of what God may be calling God's people to do and be in
a ministry context.
Benefit
Clearer and more realistic insight. Resources for planning.
For more information contact:
Carolyn Moomaw Chilton
Director of Programs and Congregational Development
Episcopal Diocese of
800-DIOCESE ext. 29
