Are you measuring what matters?
Thanks to our free Church Metrics tool, Gloo users can easily track large amounts of data from their church like attendance, baptisms, salvations, giving, and more. However, these common lag measures alone don’t give you a clear picture of your church’s health.
This is why Gloo has partnered with Barna and others to launch State of the Church. State of the Church 2025 is a year-long initiative to help leaders in ministry
understand current Church trends and utilize common measurements to see the flourishing of their own people and the thriving of their organization.
Measuring the 7 Dimensions of Human Flourishing and the 15 Dimensions of Church Thriving will allow you to see the health of your people and your church beyond simple attendance and giving statistics. As the big C Church unites around these common measurements, leaders will be able to see research trends and measure the state of their own churches, and network leaders will be able to provide resources and next steps for churches in their network.
As churches report and learn from each other, they will be able to contribute to unleashing the collective might of the global Church in unprecedented ways.
If you haven't already checked it out, make sure to visit our free State of the Church Kit to help you get started! There are two major resources provided by your Gloo account to get started with- the ChurchPulse Assessment and the Church Health Dashboard.
📱 What is the ChurchPulse Assessment?
The ChurchPulse Assessment is a 69-question assessment to help you measure how your people are really doing across the 7 Dimensions of Human Flourishing and how your church is really doing across the 15 Dimensions of Church Thriving. This survey takes only 5-7min to complete, and on average churches see 25-35% of their congregation complete the survey.
🚀 How do I deploy the assessment?
The ChurchPulse is completely free and can be easily deployed from any Gloo account, whether the free version or the paid Gloo+ version. You can access the Assessment by clicking on the Insights tab, then ChurchPulse. You can read more about the Assessment and click Configure Assessment to get started.
For a full guide on how to configure your ChurchPulse Assessment, you can either watch the video below, or follow the step-by-step guide!
Navigate to Insights -> ChurchPulse and click Configure Assessment.
Name your Assessment.
Select if you would like to survey to be ongoing, meaning open to be completed any time, or range, meaning you will define a specific date range when the survey will be open.
Add any customization you would like, including the pastor's name, the organization or church's name, a message, and a photo or logo.
Once everything has been configured, click Create.
A link and a QR code will automatically be generated for you to use to share the Assessment with your church for them to take. You can share the link out with people through email or text, or download the QR code and post it on slides at church for people to scan.
Pro tip: Use Gloo's Broadcasting feature to easily text the link out to everyone at your church. We've even created a template for you to use to make it even easier!
📈 How do I view the results?
Once you've created your Assessment, you can view the progress and results, as well as make changes, by going to your Deployments.
You can click on the Assessment to make any changes you'd like. And once people begin to fill out the Assessment, you can click Results to see how they are responding. This results section will give you an overview of the responses, and clicking any of the View All Results button will take you directly to your Church Health Dashboard to see full results and AI-driven insights.
⛪️ What is the Church Health Dashboard?
The Church Health Dashboard combines all the learnings from the ChurchPulse Assessment and equips leaders to know strengths and areas for growth. In addition to strengths and areas for growth, Gloo AI is supplying custom insights for leaders to help dig deeper into the data collected.
You can view your results, compare yourself with national averages, and get AI-driven insights to continue to learn and grow.
For more information, check out our full Church Health Dashboard article!