Church Research Services

Helping Churches Make a Difference for God’s Kingdom in Their Communities

Church Research Services empowers Georgia Baptist congregations and ministries with accurate information, insightful evaluation, and effective tools for understanding who is living in your community, your mission opportunities and God’s purpose for His church.

Personalized resources your church may be interested in include:

• Church Trend Profiles
• Community Demographic Profiles
• Mailing Lists for People Living in Your Community
• Pin Maps from Member & Prospect Lists
• Surveys for Your Church & Community

Online request form for Church Trend Profiles and Community Demographic Studies

These resources are provided to Georgia Baptist churches, missions and church plants at no cost, but are only made possible because of your faithful gifts to mission endeavors through the Cooperative Program.

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2016 ONLINE Annual Church Profile for Churches
Please visit http://igo.gabaptist.org to enter your Annual Church Report, Leadership Profile and Other Church Information Form. You must have a username and password to begin. If you do not know your login information please contact your local association office or Church Research Services.

IMPORTANT: Click here to see why completing an Annual Church Report is important to your church, association, state convention and the SBC.

Customized Associational Other Church Information Forms

• Grady County Association
• Mallary Association
• Polk-Haralson Association
• Washington Association

Because of your faithful support through the Cooperative Program, the following reports are provided as a FREE service to Georgia Baptist Mission Board churches to help support and strengthen your ministry:

• Church Trend Profiles – (click here for sample)
  Ten-year analysis of your church’s membership, baptisms, Sunday School attendance, Discipleship enrollment and more. Please call, email or fill out a request form to receive this report.
• Member and Prospect Pin Maps (click here for sample)
  Send us a computer file of your member and/or prospect addresses and we’ll plot the location of their homes on an 8.5×11″ map (BMP, PDF or PPT) or online using Google Fusion Maps. Please call us for the specific fields and format of information required for mapping.
• Customized Surveys
  We can help you design a customized online or paper survey uniquely tailored to your needs. Please contact us for more information.
• Church Surveys and Questionnaires
  The following are available for download to assist your church. Most are in Microsoft Word format so that you can modify them as needed.

• 14 Days of Prayer & Bible Study to Discover God’s Purpose for the Church
• Church Facilities Survey
• Church Leader Interview
• Church Member Survey
• Church Member Exit Questionnaire
• Hospitality Assessment
• Individual Interview Questions
• Minister Compensation Study (2016 LifeWay/Guidestone)
• Missions Assessment Profile (MAP)
• New Member Questionnaire
• SHAPE Profile
• Spiritual Gifts- Discovery Survey
• Spiritual Gifts – Where Do You Fit?
• Spiritual Gifts – Where Do I Volunteer?
• Time, Talent & Giftedness Church Member Survey

Click here to view an in-depth research analysis of communities around Georgia.

Church Research Services can help you better understand who is living in your ministry area by supplying and interpreting demographic and psychographic information about the people in your community. Because of your faithful gifts through the Cooperative Program, the following are provided FREE of charge to Georgia Baptist affiliated churches:

Community Demographic Profile
Current year estimates, 5-year and 10-year projections related to population, age, race, education, income, lifestyles, and more using miles rings, drive times, city, county, zip code and polygon studies. Please call, email or fill out a request form to receive this report.

Available reports include (click links for samples):

• Quick Insite Report (short demographic profile)
• Executive Insite Report (recommended demographic profile)
• Full Insite Report (very thorough demographic analysis)
• Impressions Report (moods, perceptions & values in the community)
• Quadrennium Report (beliefs & spiritual assessment of the community)
• Comparative Insite Report (recommended – requires membership list upload)

ATTENTION: You may also now have your own personal login to perform demographic profiles of your community. Just CLICK HERE to learn how. This service is available to no cost as a partner in ministry with the Georgia Baptist Mission Board. You have access to the same reports delivered by our office.

Below are some links for self discovery:

• Mosaic Segments and Key Traits by Zip Code
• Mosaic Lifestyle Group and Segment Descriptions
• Mosaic Lifestyle Group and Segment Mission Impact Guide (outreach ideas)

Community Surveys and Questionnaires
The following are available for download to assist your church. Most are in Microsoft Word format so that you can modify them as needed.

• Agency and Institution Survey
• Community Observation Guide
• Community Survey
• Other Church Questionnaire
• Sample Outreach and Evangelism Surveys
• Windshield Survey (1-page)
• Windshield Survey (2-page)

Community Volunteer Missions Ideas
The following websites will give you ideas for ministering and reaching out to your community.

• Christian Volunteering
• Faith in Action
• Love Your City
• Mission Georgia Volunteer Opportunities
• Random Acts of Kindness
• Volunteer Match

OPTION 1: Mailing Lists that You can Find Yourself (FREE)

Know your neighbors. Prayer walk and call households out by name to God. Invite families over for a block party. Invite them to church using a door hanger, post card or letter. Just type in your address and get a map with name and address information of people living in your community. Available for free at http://neighbors.whitepages.com

OPTION 2: Download Customized Mailing Lists for Your Mission Field (COST)

You may download a list of people in your mission field from MissionInsite. CLICK HERE to learn how to create your personal login. Decide your target (who you’d like to reach) based on household demographics, the distance around your church you’d like to search, and the number of households to download. There are online instructions and people at MissionInsite ready to serve you via phone, chat or email. The fee is based on the number of households you chose to retrieve.

Bible Study & Preaching Resources

Online Bible Resources & Teaching Tools, Sermon Illustrations, Commentaries, Research Resources, Answers to God Questions, Christian Lyrics & Quotes, Religion in the News, Spiritual Growth Resources, and more…