The ability to know is oxygen to a ministry. Leaders often wonder, “How are my people doing? How effective is my ministry? How am I doing as a leader?” At Gloo, we’ve worked with Barna Group in serving thousands of leaders who leverage technology as a way to learn and to know. We’ve learned that one of the best ways to gain knowledge is to leverage common frameworks—a mutually accepted way of viewing and communicating about something.

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.

The key way to participate in this initiative is to launch the ChurchPulse Assessment at your church and to view the results in your Church Health Dashboard.

The traditional metrics for measuring church health (attendance, budgets, engagement, etc.) lack the ability to capture the true well-being of congregations and churches. The ChurchPulse Assessment utilizes a common measurement framework in these areas:

People Flourishing: Based on work from the Harvard Center for Human Flourishing and in collaboration with Barna and Gloo, human flourishing looks at seven dimensions of whole-person health. Flourishing people attend, stay, give, engage, grow, and multiply, ultimately leading to a thriving church body.

Church Thriving: Based on decades of research from Barna Group, the 15 dimensions of church thriving help leaders look beyond common lag measures to understand deeper drivers of church health.

When churches thrive, the people in your church flourish, and as you take next steps to grow your people and your church, those traditional metrics of attendance and budgets all grow with it!

If you have deployed a ChurchPulse Assessment and people have filled it out, then by default your screen will show your Church's results in purple, compared to national averages in green.

You can click the dropdown menus next to My Church or National Average to adjust the comparisons. In each space, you can choose whether you'd like to see data from your church, any Circle that your Gloo organization is part of, or the national average. Or, if you'd just like to see one set of data with no comparison, just click the x to delete the comparison- you can always add it back in later.

You can also change the timeframe you are looking at, as well as set filters for your data based on age and gender, in order to get more granular with your results.

This first section reports on the 7 dimensions of people flourishing, as described above. Click on any dimension to see more details, including the questions asked in the Assessment that focus on this dimension, as well as next steps for this area.

Underneath this section you'll see key AI-driven insights that dive deeper into your data.

This section digs deeper into which area of flourishing people in your church want to grow in the most. Click the arrows on the right side to scroll through more options.

This section reports on the 15 dimensions of church thriving, split into 3 main categories: nurturing, sending, and leading. You can click on each section to view more insights, and click on any individual dimension to see more details, including the questions asked in the Assessment that focus on this dimension, as well as next steps for this area.

Underneath this section you'll see key AI-driven insights that dive deeper into your data.

This final section reports on different demographics of your responders like marriage, parenthood, divorce, and more. Click View all on the right side to see more.