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Assessment Tools
Clergy: Second Chance to Take LPLI
All those appointed or assigned to local churches in the California-Nevada Annual Conference will have a second opportunity to take the Lewis Pastoral Leadership Inventory (LPLI) if they did not complete it last fall.
For more information and to sign up, please contact Kathy La Point-Collup, Chair of the Council on Clergy Development, by April 26 at kflc@aol.com.
Congregational Vitality
Churches were given until March 1, 2009 to input their information to the Vital Signs assessment portal.
Once information is entered, churches receive feedback almost immediately.
The assessments are being made available to the District Superintendents and to the new Council on Congregational Development. The council's work will parallel that of the Council on Clergy Development.
"We would like to 'take a picture' of where we are today in terms of congregational vitality, as a means of focusing our work in support of church revitalization and new church development," says Blake Busick, Chair of the Committee on Congregational Vitality for the Council on Congregational Development. "These assessments will give us a Conference baseline from which we will be able to evaluate - in future years - if our efforts are making any difference."
At Annual Conference Session in June, members voted to require every local church to "complete an assessment of its own vitality no later than December 15, 2008 using the assessment tools provided in Vital Signs: A Pathway to Congregational Wholeness, by Dan R. Dick (Discipleship Resources, 2007)," available from Cokesbury. (Because churches were not able to gain access to these tools on time, they were allowed until March 1, 2009 to complete their work.)
(Click on logo below to order Vital Signs.)
During the process of developing the Vital Signs online assessment, the Committee on Congregational Vitalty asked churches to complete an extremely brief online questionnaire that asked, among other things, whether the church could benefit from assistance. That questionnaire is still open for churches to use to register such a need. It is not, however, a substitute for the Vital Signs assessment. Again, please access the Vital Signs assessment portal to fulfill your church's requirement.
The Vital Signs assessment by churches is distinct from the Lewis Pastoral Leadership Inventory, which all clergy under appointment to a church in the California-Nevada Annual Conference were directed to take during October.
Clergy who have taken the LPLI still need to ensure that the Vital Signs assessment is done for their churches.
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Read November 7, 2008 letter from Blake Busick, Chair of the Committee on Congregational Vitality for the Council on Congregational Development.
Wondering how other churches are coming along? Read October 28 report from the Rev. Carole Bergman at Willits UMC.
