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What is MAPCHURCH

Assess Your Church’s Potential with MAPCHURCH

Benefit #1 Survey a representative sampling of your members and find out what they are thinking! The results are aggregated and anonymity is protected—member names and individual answers are not revealed with the results. Your survey respondents are free to share their honest perspectives safely, and yet in a way that will help their pastor and church leadership to have a better picture of the church’s missional mindset.

Benefit #2 Cause your members to consider the importance of your church being missional, and prompt them to re-evaluate their own personal commitment to evangelism, outreach, church planting and Acts 1:8 missions. Any opportunity to get your members thinking about their involvement in these ministries can lead to positive Kingdom impact!

Benefit #3 These tools will evaluate the aggregate results and suggest ways to move your church along the missional continuum from less effective to more effective, less involved to more involved. Church leadership will be presented with options, and if you choose, you may select the solutions that best fit your church’s style and needs.

Benefit #4 Link directly from MAPCHURCH.com to your State Convention’s Acts 1:8 resource page. Find missions help quickly from your Acts 1:8 Challenge partners by visiting ActsOne8.com.

What is MAPCHURCH?

MAPCHURCH is a FREE resource provided by the North American Mission Board, Inc., in partnership with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). However, it is available for all churches to use if they find it helpful. The current version of MAPCHURCH uses terminology typical of traditional SBC churches, but future releases may incorporate at least seven paradigms of church styles such as “progressive”, “purpose-driven”, and “emerging”; and terminology more common in non-SBC churches. Churches select the terminology paradigm they prefer.

What is the MAPCHURCH purpose?

MAPCHURCH measures the perceptions that your church members have about their church and about their own understanding and missional involvement. Although perceptions are reality to those who hold them, they may not be actual reality.

MAPCHURCH currently offers two assessment tools to help accomplish its purpose. You may choose which tool is more appropriate for your church at this time.

“ChurchMAP” features a 126-question survey to which selected members will respond indicating their perceptions on a variety of church topics. (See the “How Does It Work” tab for a complete list.)
“MissionsMAP” features a 42-question survey to which members will respond indicating their perceptions on local, state, national, and international missions.

What is the MAPCHURCH process?

Registering the church and the selection of participants are the responsibilities of the church’s MAPCHURCH Administrator. That could be the pastor or a staff member, a secretary, a consultant, or any other member or person designated by the church.

First the church’s MAPCHURCH Administrator registers the church to obtain a User-Id and Password. This is accomplished by clicking the New Church Account button. The system will send the User-Id and Password within a couple of days. When logging on the first time, the MAPCHURCH Administrator updates and confirms the church profile data. Next the MAPCHURCH Administrator builds an e-mail message for the system to send to the participants, and inputs the e-mail addresses of the participants. The participants may be the entire church membership, or a random sample of members, or a specific group, etc. After the e-mail list has been built and reviewed, the MAPCHURCH Administrator tells the system to “Begin” the survey and the system automatically sends out the e-mails.

When participants receive the e-mail message from MAPCHURCH.com, they click the link imbedded in the e-mail. That launches the survey web app on their browser, and they follow the instructions and complete the survey. Participants may select either English, Spanish, or Korean languages for their survey questions. The MAPCHURCH Administrator can also print paper versions of the survey for those who do not have e-mail addresses or who do not use a computer, and then the MAPCHURCH Administrator can enter those surveys for the participants. Once the MAPCHURCH Administrator tells the system to begin the survey, participants have two weeks to complete it.

While the survey period is in progress, the MAPCHURCH Administrator may follow the progress by logging in and reviewing the “dashboard”. The dashboard shows how many have completed the survey and how much time is remaining. The dashboard also displays a generic User-Id and generic Password that can be given to participants who have access to the Internet but don’t have their own e-mail account.

After tabulating the responses of your church members who were selected to participate in ChurchMAP, MAPCHURCH will generate reports giving your church’s leadership a snapshot of what your church perceives about itself in the areas of discipleship, evangelism, fellowship, prayer, worship, stewardship, theology, lay mobilization, missions and many others. Responses to each question will also be correlated with the four authenticity measurements of knowing, obeying, connecting and leading. If the MissionsMAP tool was used, a snapshot of perceptions will be available in the Acts 1:8 Challenge purposes of Prepare, Learn, Pray, Give, Go, Tell, Send, and Multiply; and in the missions target areas of your Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and World.

Your church’s MAPCHURCH Administrator may download electronic reports from MAPCHURCH in PDF File format containing complete summaries based on each authenticity factor and category. These reports include graphs that will make it easy for the MAPCHURCH Administrator and church leaders to communicate the results to their church family. In addition churches will also receive reports containing detailed (but aggregate) information about how your survey participants responded to every question, topic and category.

Please note that MAPCHURCH will keep all individual survey responses strictly confidential. Only the church’s MAPCHURCH Administrator will know the identities of the members who were selected to participate in the surveys. Passwords will be confidential, so that participants will not see each other’s survey responses. MAPCHURCH and its owners will not disclose any individual identities. MAPCHURCH will never provide the names of participants or produce reports attributable to individual identities. All results will be rolled into aggregate summaries, with no possibility of discerning a specific individual’s answers to the survey questions. Individual responses are not available for viewing, thus protecting and guaranteeing the anonymity of the participants.

Finally, your church may select reports containing recommendations and important resources that have been selected to assist with the particular needs of your church. These suggested resources may include informational websites, books, training programs, seminars and conferences, contact information for consultants with expertise in your area of need, and coaching available from people in your local association or state convention.

Should you need further assistance you may contact the North American Mission Board, Inc., and we will be glad to help you. We may be reached by using the Contact Us form, or by phoning 888-730-5226 toll-free.

Only one registrant required per church! The survey administrator can be the pastor, a staff member, or a volunteer.

A registrant has only three tasks! Update your church’s profile data, enter email addresses for members and staff to take the survey, and generate reports for your church once the survey has ended.

Click the “Get Started!” tab if you have not already registered to get your login id and password today! If you need help with the survey please refer to the “How does it work?” page.