CBD-MBD Congregational Social Justice Survey

1.Name of your congregation (with city and state):(Required.)

2.What is your current role (or roles) in your congregation (check all that apply):(Required.)

Other (please specify)

4.How would you rate the level of social justice activity at your congregation?(Required.)

Other (please specify)

5.What is your best guess about the level of participation in social justice work in your congregation? That is, about what percentage of the congregation gets involved?

6.How active are you personally in the social justice work of your congregation?

I am very involved

I am somewhat involved

I am minimally involved

I am not involved

7.Briefly describe the social action/justice programs at your congregation. Include service, education, advocacy, witness and organizing efforts and name what issues are being addressed.

8.Which of the following individuals or groups is involved in setting direction for the justice work of your congregation? (Check all that apply.)(Required.)

9.How is your congregation's social justice ministry tied into the congregation's sense of mission, purpose and call?

10.Would you say that the social justice work at your congregation is "ministry" - that is, it goes beyond "activism" to include spiritual dimensions of community building and meaning-making?(Required.)

Yes

No

Sometimes

11.If your answer to #10 is "Yes" or "Sometimes," please describe how your congregation's social justice work acts as ministry in your congregation.

12.If your answer to #10 is "No," please describe how your congregation's social justice work might become more of a ministry if you have any ideas about that.

13.How is social justice ministry integrated into the life of your congregation, if it is?

14.What ideas do you have for how the district can inspire and support congregationally-based social justice ministries in the congregations of CBD and MBD?