New Commandment Men's Ministries
Using teams of men to serve widows, single moms, and fatherless children
New Commandment Men's Ministries
Using teams of men to serve widows, single moms, and fatherless children

Has Your Church Experienced a Natural Disaster?

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I’m doing research on best practices for churches that have been in the epicenter of natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and forest fires.

If you lead or attend a church that has actually been through a natural disaster – not simply helped a church that has experienced a natural disaster –please respond to my anonymous questionnaire here.

Your responses will be used to help churches better prepare for and respond to future disasters. After answering the questionnaire, you will be able to view the responses of others.

Here is a list of the questions you will be asked on the questionnaire:

  1. City and state your church is in.
  2. Your relation to your church: Pastor, Staff Member, Attender
  3. Average Sunday attendance.
  4. Year when the disaster happened.
  5. Describe how the disaster affected your community.
  6. Describe the long term affects of the disaster on your church.
  7. Describe how the disaster affected your church building.
  8. What percent of your congregation individually experienced the disaster?
  9. In what ways did your congregation individually experience the disaster?
  10. What types of outside help did your church receive? denominational help, help from other churches, insurance, charities, volunteers, government, fund raisers, other
  11. What specific steps did your church take to mitigate the effects of the disaster in your congregation?
  12. What specific steps did your church take to mitigate the effects of the disaster in your community?
  13. In what ways did the members of your church help each other?
  14. Pastors: How well did you cope with the stress of the disaster?
  15. Pastors: How did the disaster affect your ministry?
  16. Pastors: How would you describe the impact of the disaster on the spiritual health of your church?
  17. Pastors: If the disaster were to happen again, what would you do differently?

This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.

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AUTHOR

Herb Reese
Herb Reese is an author, public speaker and President of New Commandment Men's Ministries. Herb has a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has done post graduate work in The History of Ideas at University of Texas, Dallas and in Church Administration at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After serving as a pastor over a period of twenty years, Herb founded New Commandment Men's Ministries, a ministry dedicated to helping churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents. Herb has served as President of New Commandment since 2003 and has helped 1,000 churches develop men's team ministries in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Herb and his wife, Patti, live in Arvada, Colorado, and have three adult children.

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