The following outline provides the essential steps for conducting a field survey.
- Inform Church Leadership
- Solicit support
- Do Preliminary Study
- Gather lists of peoples, language. places, missions, churches
- Prepare Letters of Introduction, Personal Documentation
- Provide verifiable authorization, credentials, and experience
- Plan Survey Trip(s)
- Breakdown task into manageable segments
- Prioritize segments
- Inform appropriate Church leadership
- Do survey
- Check survey forms for errors, legibility, accuracy of translation
- Process forms;
- Analyze data
- Prepare Reports
- Communicate Findings
- Inform Church leadership
- inform Christian workers