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Evaluation--of clergy, programs, committees, and congregations--can lead to transformation and maturity when it is approached in a spirit of mutuality and collaboration. Locate the most adaptive tools for evaluation in your congregation.
CONGREGATIONAL VITALITY : Evaluation
  Annual Church Review Procedure: The Church's Ministry and the Minister (Book)
Catherine H. Clark, Author.
Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 1986.
This publication provides questionnaire templates that congregations can use to evaluate their ministers, their committees, and their entire communities.
Completing the Circle: Reviewing Ministries in the Congregation (Book)
David R. McMahill, Author.
Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 2003.
Evaluation processes that churches typically use do not always generate the information needed to effect positive change. David McMahill proposes a system to help church leaders ask for, receive, and make use of reliable feedback.
Evaluating Ministry: Principles and Processes for Clergy and Congregations (Book)
Jill M. Hudson, Author.
Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 1992.
Based on an understanding of ministry as mutual and collaborative between congregation and pastorate, this book may be used for designing either an evaluation process for clergy already in place or a contract provision for clergy soon to be called.
 Spiritual Windsurfing: Exploring the Context for Evaluation (Web Resource)
"Spiritual Windsurfing" examines key issues to consider before beginning a clergy or congregational ministry evaluation—issues such as calling, self-knowledge, and prophetic role.
User Friendly Evaluation: Improving the Work of Pastors, Programs and Laity (Book)
C. Jeff Woods, Author.
Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 1995.
User Friendly Evaluation is perhaps the handiest and most comprehensible survey of evaluation techniques and purposes currently available.
When Better Isn't Enough: Evaluation Tools for the 21st Century (Book)
Jill M. Hudson, Author.
Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 2004.
Jill Hudson offers new criteria and tools for evaluating church effectiveness, adding discernment and formative evaluation to more traditional summative evaluation. Specific questions and evaluation process reviews are included.
 Projects That Matter: Successful Planning and Evaluation for Religious Organizations (Book)
Kathleen A. Cahalan, Author.
Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 2003.
Projects That Matter introduces readers to project planning, using as a framework the elements of condition, resources, activities, results, impact, and rationale. It also identifies six effective steps in the evaluation process.
The Success Case Method: Find Out Quickly What's Working and What's Not (Book)
Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Author.
San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003.
The Success Case Method (SCM) combines survey and story-telling methods to produce evaluative information with impact.
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