Shared Outcomes Framework: Attendance change

ATTENDANCE CHANGE IS ONE OF the outcome areas of the Shared Outcomes Framework. It measures the size of a church or new worshipping community using the worshipping community indicator as defined in Statistics for Mission.

Definition guidance

The guidance document below explains the definition of the outcome, the indicator(s) for measuring it and some basics around its use.

Further guidance

The guidance document below builds on the definition guidance with further details of interpreting the outcome definition and some advice for measuring in practice.

Tools

There are plans to develop a platform for helping churches and dioceses with measuring the Shared Outcomes Framework indicators; however, that will take some time. In the meantime, a temporary tool is provided below.

Worshipping Community Count tool – This is a simple tool that has been developed to support churches to effectively and efficiently identify their size of worshipping community for reporting in Statistics for Mission (as well as being useful for pastoral oversight).

It is based on producing a list of church attenders which then counts those attending in different age brackets (and having started or stopped attending regularly) to output numbers that churches can then use for the worshipping community indicator reporting.

The tool is designed to be accessed online and used locally by individual churches and does not store or share any data with the diocese or national church, which avoids any concerns of data sharing. It is particularly designed for churches with up to around 200 or so worshipping community, although it can be used for larger churches too.

It uses Google Sheets so you will need a free Google account to access it, which you can sign up for on first use if you don’t already have one. Click the link below to access and preview, or to start using the tool.