Contributions of Research

Research can make valuable contributions to ministry:

  • Provide ways to understand the context of ministry
  • Help form knowledgeable ministry goals and objectives
  • Stimulate more effective team ministry
  • Provide information for evaluation of goals
  • Help make more effective decisions
  • Reveal potential for the church in ministry
  • Reveal needs to reach that potential
  • Define resources/ministries to meet the needs
  • Identify change agents
  • Identify effective models of ministry
  • Define most effective timing sequence
  • Clarify prayer needs
  • Identify geographical areas that are saturated with churches
  • Identify geographical areas that are unengaged
  • Describe the Harvest Force
  • Describe the Harvest Field
  • Identify least evangelized people groups
  • Identify responsive peoples
  • Determine potential to send cross-cultural workers