Understanding Your Context: A Guide to Community Interviews

Description

Transformational ministry starts with listening. Having intentional conversations with people who live in your community is one of the most powerful tools for growing your ministry. This two-step interview guide will help you do this important work.

 

The guide includes suggestions and questions to help you grow in empathy and awareness of what people are experiencing in your context. From there, your faith community can partner with the Holy Spirit to develop new ministries or adapt existing programs to become more effective.

Key Takeaways

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To gain a sense of what’s going on in people’s lives in your community, you’ll conduct an interview with at least:

 

  1. One active participant in your faith community
  2. One person who is not active in your faith community
  3. One local leader (staff or volunteer) from another faith community in your geographic context.

About the Creators

Meghan Hatcher

Director of Innovation, Ministry Leadership Center

Meghan has served diverse faith communities in the areas of pastoral leadership, youth ministry, new church development, community engagement, and ministry innovation. She has a Master of Divinity and a Master of Science in Sustainable Development and Applied Sociology.

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