1. The Sunday School Growth Evaluation Plan
Ken Marler
Partnership Specialist
LifeWay Christian Resources

2. Healthy Things Grow Growing Things Change Changing Things Challenge Challenges Drive us to Trust God Trusting God Leads to Obedience Obedience Leads to Health Healthy Things Grow

4. Enrollment Enrollment = Ministry
Growth Goal: Increased enrollment over last year
Enrollment = Ministry

5. Enrollment Increased Enrollment means:
Increased Sunday School attendance
Increased Worship attendance
Increased ministry
Increased baptisms
Increased offerings
Increased number of workers

6. Enrollment
Open Enrollment
Anywhere
Anytime
If They Agree

7. Enrollment How? 1. Enrollment Cards 2. During Bible Study
3. During Worship Services
4. During Visitation
5. Special Church Events

8. Enrollment The Key Is Follow-Up 1. Deliver Bible Study Resources
2. Provide Information
3. Provide Transportation
4. Sit With New Members/Guests
5. Stand With New Members

9. Enrollment Guiding Principles 1. Think People Not Percentages
2. Drop Persons From The Roll When They Die
3. Ministry! Ministry! Ministry!

10. ENGAGEMENT OF THE MEMBERSHIP

11. Units Growth Goal: One per 18 persons enrolled in Bible Study
Without new units being developed regularly you are organized for maintenance

12. Units
Bible Study Classes reach their maximum effectiveness in months

13. The Sunday School Growth Evaluation Plan

15. The Sunday School Growth Evaluation Plan

18. Units CAUTION: 1. Class members become overly attached to the teacher.
2. Class members become overly attached to the room
3. Class members become overly attached to each other
4. A class stops growing
5. A class stops sending members out

19. Units Guiding Principles: 1. Space determines unit enrollment
2. New units determine growth
3. New unit considerations:
a class with a large enrollment
a class with broad age ranges
a target group not being reached
a lifestyle class
off campus classes

20. Ministry Touches Growth Goal:
Everyone on the ministry list should be contacted every week for ministry
The roll is the ministry list

21. Ministry Touches
Devise a strategy to contact everyone on the ministry list every week

22. Attendance Growth goal:
An attendance of 40%-60% of the enrollment should be achieved

23. Attendance Follows Ministry

24. Space
Growth Principle:
One space for every on campus unit

25. Space Four types of space Worship Education Parking Preschool
When any of these is 80% full consider the space full

26. Space
Discover space
1. Available
2. Adjusted
3. Adjacent
4. Adapted

27. Space Guiding Principle:
Space should never keep a church from reaching people

28. Leaders
Growth Goal:
One Worker for every five persons on the Sunday School ministry list
Leaders: Those who are involved in the work of teaching, reaching, or ministry

31. Leaders Four things every adult class need to do to help members leave
1. Missionary Member board
2. FYI phone call to missionary member immediately after church
3. Missionary member receives a ministry contact during the week
4. Monthly party

32. Leaders Guiding Principles: Pray for workers to be called
Learn the art of discovery
Learn the art of encouragement and motivation

33. Leaders in Training Growth Goal:
Every leader participates in leadership training every year

35. Leaders in Training
Determine a strategy to enable every Leader to earn their leadership diploma in one year
Individual
Church
Association
State
National

36. Leaders in Training Guiding Principles:
Every leader in training: and it is never ending
No leader says, “I already know that.”

37. Sunday School Leadership Meeting
Growth Goal:
75% of workers attending a weekly team meeting

38. Sunday School Leadership Meeting
Four areas of work to be done
1. Focus on Mission
2. Focus on Relationships
3. Focus on Bible Study
4. After the meeting

39. Sunday School Leadership Meeting Results of the Meeting
1. Fellowship
2. Leadership development
3. Team spirit
4. Prayer
5. Ministry
6. Commitment

40. Sunday School Leadership Meeting Results of the Meeting
7. Preparation
8. Promotion
9. Outreach
10. Evaluation
11. Correlation of work

41. The 4 P’s of Leadership Meetings

42. 1. Pray Every Meeting For: 1. The lost 2. The unchurched/backslidden
3. The teacher
4. The class leaders
5. The church staff
6. Intercessory Needs
7. The Church’s Ministry

43. 2. Promote Resources
Available Training Resources (the latest study course materials, books, articles, web sites, etc.)
Upcoming training events
Church Training events (Discipleship training or special training sessions)
Associational Training events (check with the DOM office for locations)
State Training events (check the website for locations)
National training events (Ridgecrest, Glorieta)

44. 3. Principles
Remember the timeless growth principles that will always work.
Enrollment
Outreach/Evangelism
Prospects
Birthing New Classes
Organization and structure
Inreach

45. 4. Plan Set goals Determine strategies to meet goals
Plan for intentional growth (do the necessary little things to make a difference)

46. Persons in Discipleship
Growth goal:
At least one half of the Sunday School attendance is enrolled in a Discipleship class.

47. Persons in Discipleship
These classes are closed and are for building Great Commission Christians
A director of Discipleship is needed in every adult class

48. Worship Attendance Growth Goal:
No more than 10-20% more in worship than in Sunday School.

49. Worship Attendance
Remember to get persons in worship services on the ministry list who are not already on the Sunday School ministry list

50. Offerings Growth Goal:
Sunday School attendance multiplied by the per capita giving

51. Offerings Divide weekly undesignated
offerings by the average Sunday School attendance.
This gives the per capita giving

52. Offerings Guiding Principle: We do not need more money!
We need more people!

53. Prospects Growth Goal: Prospects = Ministry List
Anyone who does not attend Bible Study is your prospect.

54. Prospects Valid Prospect:
Someone who is assigned a class with proper information

55. Prospects How? 1. I know a prospect cards
2. Opinion Polls/People Search
3. New Residence information
4. Special event registration
5. Broadman Prospect Services

56. Prospects Guiding Principles:
1. Equal to the number on the ministry list
2. A director of prospecting to keep everyone aware of the need
3. Anyone not attending Bible Study is a prospect

57. Outreach
Growth Goal:
Every class involved in outreach every week

59. Outreach Train persons “How To” Give the motivation
Provide the organization to assimilate new persons

60. The Sunday School Growth Evaluation Plan
Ken Marler
Partnership Specialist
LifeWay Christian Resources