• The MWD Ministry Team can walk your church through several different, more casual, in-house evaluation tools. Ask for more info.
• Church Equippers (how to get unstuck as a church) (contact Colby for coaching)
• Church Staff Health Evaluation - by ChurchStaffing.com
• Clarity Assessment - this assessment will help you and your team evaluate the current level of shared clarity you are leading with as you step into your disciple-making future together
• The GO Center - a variety of tools (fee-based). Select the "Initiatives" menu item.
• Natural Church Development - a survey to begin improving the health of your church
• Patheway Ministries (pastor and church coaching, interim services) (note: not to be confused with the Pathway church leader training)
• Relational Wisdom 360 - going beyond emotional intelligence
• Scatter by Made to Flourish. Scatter is a survey & insights platform that provides church leaders with a detailed understanding of their congregation’s daily work, skills, and passions to help you pastor your flock in their Monday-to-Saturday worlds.
• Walking the Walls (step-by-step coaching to build healthy teams & grow your ministry, led by a district church member Joe Chenoweth)

• 9 Marks of a Healthy Church, by Mark Dever
• A Critique of 9 Marks by Jackson Wu
• Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities of Healthy Churches
• Annual Guide to Biblical Counseling Resources 2019
• Church Health Assessment from RHMA
• Demographic reports: Contact Colby and he can run a detailed demographics report for any zip code or hand-drawn boundary. 
• Diagnosing the Heart of Your Church: How Church Leaders Can Assess Systemic Corporate Dysfunction (Church Cardiology Series), by Mark Barnard
• The Eighth Letter: What is Jesus saying to your church?, by Mark Barnard and Kenneth Quick
• Exponential’s Free e-Books 
• Healing the Heart of Your Church: How Ministry Leaders Can Facilitate Corporate Healing (Church Cardiology Series), by Kenneth Quick
• Healthy Church 
• Life Cycle - take a survey to see where your church is in the normal life cycle graph. You may need revitalization!
• Membership classes - Welcome to the Family 
• Natural Church Development church assessment tools
• Tools for your Board from ECFA 

There are so many additional forms, resources and checklists on Brotherhood Mutual’s Safety Library online. You can also access Legal Assist where you can submit your questions directly to Brotherhood Mutual’s legal team for additional guidance. 

1. Facility Use Agreement Form
2. Participation Waiver Form
3. Driver Screening Form
4. Equipment Use Agreement
5. Short-Term Trip Agreement
6. Notice of Injury Form
7. Photo Use Agreement
8. Property Inventory
9. Volunteer Application
10. Volunteer Renewal Application  

Simpler is better

Simpler formats are more flexible, more likely to fit your context, more likely for reviewers to complete, and more relational than formulaic evaluations.

Start with a good role description

You can't do an effective pastor evaluation without a good role description already in place? This is the target to hit, but if it's not written out and clear, how can you expect a pastor to hit the target? If you don't have a good role description in place, stop the evaluation process, work on the description, then do the evaluation. (See below for some hints on a good role description.)

"Plus-Delta" Evaluation

The "Plus-Delta" Evaluation is as simple as it gets, and is as effective as any other:

• Plus = What he is doing exceptionally well
• Delta = One or two things that could be improved

For each major area of the role description, have each elder (or equivalent) write out the Plus and the Delta.

Then have the pastor complete the same evaluation on himself.

One elder then collects and anonymizes the results.

1-1 evaluation: Have the one who collected the results walk through the results with the pastor in detail.

Group evaluation: At a later date, have the entire board walk through the results with the pastor at a higher level. Concentrate on the most important items and those items that the pastor and the evaluators didn't see eye-to-eye on.

Writing a Good Role Description

Keep in mind the following when developing a pastor's role description:

• Every pastor should have one!
• Keep it to 2 pages or fewer.
• Make the goals aggressive enough to require God's power but reasonable (as led by the Spirit).
• The pastor can't be expected to do everything, be on every committee, go to every meeting, etc.
• Don't include items that aren't necessary for the pastor to be the one doing them, but perhaps include oversight of those who should be.
• Include faithful discipleship and family priorities.
• Include catalytic pioneering (innovative, continual improvement, trimming the less effective activities, etc.).
• Include trustworthy teaching (not just preaching), including limits (e.g., how many Sunday sermons maximum?).
• Include visionary shepherding (tending to the flock and coaching elders and others to do the same).
• Include capable administration (only as much as he should be doing, not necessarily expert level, but adequate with good delegation).
• Include generous multiplication (new congregations, new churches, new campuses), perhaps in cooperation with other churches and the MWD. Generosity here is the opposite of hoarding or building only the local church.