The Love-Hate Relationship that We Have with Surveys

While I am not a fan of surveys (either administering or responding to them) I cannot deny that people have been reached through a simple survey and a subsequent invitation to church. While we are doing various things to reach out to people through prayerwalks, block parties, and other gatherings, the simple act of getting to know people through a survey shows them that we care about what they think.

In the next few weeks under the leadership of our Missions Intern, Josh Herring, and one of our members who is passionate about this type of work, Wayne Laughinghouse, we will be conducting various survey blitzes with the goal of reaching out to more Suffolk residents directly. In the course of this work we are going to ask four simple questions.

• What is your church background?
• In your opinion, what are the top three reasons people do not attend church?
• When you hear the word Church does it have a positive or negative association, and why?
• How long have you lived in the Suffolk area?

This Sunday we will plan to meet at the Crossroads Center and travel together to the North Suffolk area prepared to conduct surveys, pass out information from our church, and pray for the people that we encounter.

As always, we are praying that the Lord of the Harvest will send forth laborers into the harvest by providing people to join us this Sunday. Those who are interested may respond to our Facebook group or email Josh at josh.p.herring@gmail.com. If you are unable to join us, please pray for the intersections that we will have with the residents of Suffolk and that God will cause those seeds to grow in His time.

May we continue to be a church who loves God, loves others, and lives the mission!