Church Assessment - Associate Pastor Thank you for filling out this assessment. Completion should take about ten minutes and must be completed in one session. Step 1 of 2 50% HiddenASSESSMENT CATEGORY Church Name* Church City* Church State* Email* We would like for the Associate Pastor to be someone who could be groomed to take over as senior pastor at some point.* Yes No Punctuality is important to us.* Yes No Our next Associate Pastor will continue our current excellent program and philosophy with limited change.* Yes No We would like our Associate Pastor to be focused on strategies to reach the community* Yes No The primary role of our Associate Pastor is to assist the Senior Pastor in the same areas of ministry.* Yes No A measure of success for our church is that it grows in new members (or baptisms if applicable) each year.* Yes No We expect our Associate Pastor to disciple at least 5 on a regular basis.* Yes No Part of the Associate Pastor's role will be to preach/teach from time to time.* Yes No Our next Associate Pastor needs to have past experience supervising paid staff.* Yes No It's important to us that our new Associate Pastor isn't coming off a bad last Associate Pastor experience and has no baggage.* Yes No We would like for our Associate Pastor to have an emphasis on administration and organizational skills.* Yes No We consider ourselves to be a rural or small-town church.* Yes No We expect our next Associate Pastor to learn through church leadership conferences and experiences and are willing to fund those growth opportunities.* Yes No Our new Associate Pastor needs to have at least a masters degree or equivalent.* Yes No Our new Associate Pastor needs to have at least three years of paid experience as a Associate Pastor.* Yes No It is important that the Associate Pastor has had experience with ministry growth strategies.* Yes No Our next Associate Pastor needs to have past experience in developing and managing a budget.* Yes No Our next Associate Pastor will not mind setting goals and being held accountable to agreed upon metrics.* Yes No A measure of success for our church is that ministry events create the opportunity for new people to come to our church.* Yes No Our new Associate Pastor will be responsible for changing the direction/philosophy of our ministry.* Yes No Our next staff member must be currently ordained.* Yes No Our next Associate Pastor needs to consider themselves a 'technie'.* Yes No We're hoping that our next Associate Pastor will also be a great on-stage communicator (teaching team)* Yes No Our new Associate Pastor will need to work more with a team than as an individual.* Yes No Evangelism will be a large part of the Associate Pastor's job.* Yes No