Chapter Builders Assessment Tool - Ministry Exchange (MX)

Chapter Builder’s Assessment Tool
Jay Anderson

Instilling vision among the leaders

Would you say your chapter has a clear, compelling vision? Can you articulate it in a short simple sentence, and explain it in a
minute or less? What percentage of the student leaders know the vision? How many are living it out themselves and calling others to do the
same?

Focusing Prayer on the Vision

What are your chapter prayer meetings like (if they happen at all)? Do students gather to pray for the vision of the chapter? Or just
tests and ailing aunts? What is your own prayer life like? Who can you recruit to pray regularly and specifically for you and
the chapter?

Developing high-caliber student leaders

How many leaders does the chapter currently have? Does the present structure allow for expansion of the number of
leaders? Would past leaders characterize their experience in leadership as
positive or negative? What (if anything) is being done to nurture, train, and develop future
and current leaders?

Expanding the small group network

How many small groups and small group leaders do you have at present? How might you be able to free up more of your best people to be small
group leaders? What are the best ‘targets’ on your campus? Dorms? Departments?
People groups? How are your small group leaders being trained, nurtured, and
encouraged?

Ensuring high-quality Large Group meetings

What would a first time visitor think of your typical large group
meeting? Is your meeting room warm and welcoming, suitably sized, and centrally
located? Are your MC’s and worship leaders confident, competent, and
enthusiastic? Do you have great speakers? If not, how can you go about finding
more?

Executing a successful NSO

Typically, how many people do you have on board with your NSO efforts? Do you generally have good publicity and at least a couple good NSO
events? Do you have a system in place that ensures every contact is followed
up within 48 hours? Is the follow-up that is being done personal, with the intent of
building a relationship? Are contacts being successfully steered into involvement in a small
group Bible study?

Spurring on evangelism and outreach

Would you say that your chapter has an outreach mindset? Or more of
an inward focus? Who is ‘leading the charge’ in evangelism, and keeping it in the
forefront of people’s minds? What evangelism strategy will you pursue? Friendship evangelism?
GIG’s? Seeker Meetings? Where will you provide regular training and ongoing motivation for
evangelism?