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Strategic Plan Questionnaire ChurchInstructions: For each category, list two or three examples from your church in the column on the right. Use the back ifnecessary.

A. Strengths effective ministries, partnerships

What ministries does God seem to beblessing?

What networks, partnerships, denominational

agencies or other organizations might beuseful?

B. Resources finances, skills, gifts, personnel

What skills, vocations, and gifts do people inthe church have?

What financial and material recourses areavailable?

C. Concerns what you really care about

Meeting what types of needs might somepeople be passionate about? (AIDS, poor,education, justice issues, etc.)

Are any people in the church concernedabout a certain people group, religious group,

or area of the world?

D. Situation size, context, history

What characteristics of your communityimpact your church?

What characteristics of your church mightneed to be taken into account?

What is something that is lacking in yourchurch?

E. Experience past and current missionsinvolvement

What are the strengths of your current globaloutreach experience?

Are there any areas of global outreach thatneeds to be strengthened?

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Strategic Plan Questionnaire WorldInstructions: Read through the entire list first. Then check the box of five statements you and/ormembers of your church might resonate with most.

1. Nearly 50% of the worlds population lives in urban areas.

2. Less than 10% of the total number of missionaries works among people where thechurch is not established.3. 37 million people who now reside in North America were born outside of Canada

and the U.S.

4. Millions of people around the world want to learn English.5. Many people live in areas where members of a dominant religion resist Christianity,

sometimes violently.

6. People who are dislocated from their home environments are often open to newideas and practical help.

7. Approximately 70% of all Christians live in the global South (non-Western world).8. The number of missionaries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America is close to the

number of Western missionaries and is increasing while the number of missionariesfrom the West has reached a plateau.

9. An estimated 34 million people worldwide are living with HIV and over 2 millionpeople died of AIDS in 2007.

10. More than 850 million people go hungry worldwide and about half the worldpopulation lives on less than $2 a day.

11. Approximately 1.5 billion people or the global population is unreached theyhave not heard the gospel and live in an area without a population of Christianslarge enough to reach them.

12. 37 of the worlds 50 least evangelized countries are located in the 10/40 window.13. Many modern technologies such as the Internet, cell phones, and satellite TV, have

made communication around the world almost instant.

14. Translation of the gospel into mother languages has introduced millions of people toChrist.

15. The global rate of illiteracy is approximately 18% and may be as high as 80% insome countries.

16. The church is growing in many parts of the world through the equipping of nationalpastors and workers to plant and grow churches.

17. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world with an annual growth rate ofbetween 2 and 3%.

18. Travel is faster, easier, and cheaper today than in previous generations.