Description:
By Bill Easum - The Complete Ministry Audit: Revised Edition is the essential tool for gauging your congregation's health and potential for growth. * Understand your congregation's particular character * Diagnose problems and opportunities * Plot strategies to remedy problems * Extend your mission into the community Essentially a condensed version of the instrument Bill himself employs in a consultation, The Complete Ministry Audit uses congregational surveys and questionnaires to give church leaders the best tools available for plotting their congregation's course. This revised edition makes The Complete Ministry Audit even more user friendly, with: updated questionnaires, new guides to interpreting the data.

**CD-Rom is available with paper version only, and cannot be sold separately**

Contents:
Getting Started; Surveys; Survey Totals; The Complete Ministry Audit; The Study Guide; After the Study; Resources; Using the Bonus CD-ROM; Evaluating the Church Bulletin and Newsletter; Evaluating the Site, Property, and Facilities

Author:
Bill Easum is the Vice President of Easum, Bandy and is one of the most highly respected church consultants and Christian futurists in North America. Bill has been a pioneer in the church growth movement, with 35 years of pastoral ministry in four churches and two denominations. During his 24 years at Colonial Hills Church in San Antonio, the church grew from 35 in worship to over 1,000, with 2,200 members. His record of evangelization and social justice ministries has been acknowledged by the Industrial Areas Foundation in New York as one of the finest records in North America. Bill is a graduate of Baylor University, B.A., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.D., and Perkins School of Theology, S.T.M. Bill and his wife Jan have one daughter, Caran. Bill's main vice is he loves to salt water fish and then let the fish go.

Reviews:
Bill Easum has his fingers on the pulse of today's church. As a result, this book offers excellent tools that can help any church assess where it is and where it wants to go. This is one of the most complete ministry analysis tools I have seen. All church leaders and pastors who wish to move their church forward toward a healthy and exciting future should get this book! --Bob Whitesel, author of Growth by Accident, Death by Planning: How Not to Kill a Growing Congregation

Related Resources:
The Church Growth Handbook fully describes the 20 church growth principles; also use Facing Reality by Tom Bandy as a congregational mission assessment to understand church systems and trace positive and negative congregational habits.