Contributions of Research

Research can make valuable contributions to ministry:

• Provide ways to understand the context of ministry
• Help form knowledgeable ministry goals and objectives
• Stimulate more effective team ministry
• Provide information for evaluation of goals
• Help make more effective decisions
• Reveal potential for the church in ministry
• Reveal needs to reach that potential
• Define resources/ministries to meet the needs
• Identify change agents
• Identify effective models of ministry
• Define most effective timing sequence
• Clarify prayer needs
• Identify geographical areas that are saturated with churches
• Identify geographical areas that are unengaged
• Describe the Harvest Force
• Describe the Harvest Field
• Identify least evangelized people groups
• Identify responsive peoples
• Determine potential to send cross-cultural workers