2025 UCC Survey -- Visioning Process
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! Your participation will help us evaluate how far we have come in the last five years, what strengths we possess and challenges we face, and where our dreams might lead us in the coming years. 

In order to compare responses with similar congregational surveys over time Q1-7 focus on congregational demographics before transitioning to the visioning survey questions  If there are two or more adults in your household, we request that only one adult answer the "household information" questions (question 1-2) for the family. However, each adult should complete the rest of the survey, as the responses may differ. 


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1. Household Information: What description best fits your household?
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2. Household Information: If you have dependents who will not be answering the survey themselves, please note their ages:
3. Demographics: Please select the age category that represents you.
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4. Demographics:  What description best describes your education level?
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5.  Demographics: What description best describes your employment status?
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6.  Demographics: If you are working outside of the home, what description best matches your employment?
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7. Demographics: What is your racial/ethnic background?
8. What first brought you to First UCC? 
9. The faith life of First UCC is expressed most closely as (choose one):
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10. When you think about our strengths, which of these make you the most excited about being part of our congregation.  Our church: (choose up to five)
11. What supports you at First UCC to grow in your own faith and practice? (choose all that apply)
12. The following issues have been identified as challenges in our community. Thinking about the strengths you chose in the previous questions, which needs do you believe First UCC is best equipped to address or partner with others to address? (choose 2)
13. What is the most meaningful moment you have experienced at First UCC?  
15. What do you believe God is calling our church to do/become over the next few years? For each of the response options below, identify the extent to which you believe it is a priority for the church by choosing  the number that best captures your response after the following phrases (options are 3= most urgent, 2= would be nice, 1= not a priority).
a. Providing worship that expresses the Gospel in contemporary language and forms
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b. Strengthen Faith Formation programming for adults
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c. Strengthen Faith Formation programming for children and youth
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d. Maintain and/or expand the Our Whole Lives curriculum
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e. Provide more support to families within the congregation who are raising children
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j. Effectively meet the needs of our elderly and aging congregants
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f. Find actionable ways for the congregation to engage in racial and social justice
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g. Increase the diversity represented within the congregation
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h. More effectively engage students from the colleges in our congregation
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i. Continue to develop a sustainable financial plan for our congregation
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k. Make better use of our building as a community resource
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l.  Strengthen relationships and build community within our congregation
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m. Strengthen relationships with other faith communities and partner organizations locally (other churches, CAC, The Key, Laura Baker Services, etc.) 
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16. What impact do you think the pandemic shutdown of 2020 and beyond has had on our congregation?  What have we learned?
17. How has our governance model adopted in 2015 affected our ministry together? What gifts and challenges has it brought? 
18. Our building tells a story about who we have been. What role do you think the building can or should play in our future?
19. If you were inviting a friend to visit our congregation, how would you describe us?  
20. How would you like that description to be different in five years? 
21. Have you or do you plan to participate in a facilitated congregational conversation with the Visioning Team? These are opportunities to engage in storytelling and sacred listening.
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THANK YOU for contributing to this visioning process. We appreciate your time and support.  Questions about this survey can be sent to visioning@firstucc.org.  Peace be with you all!
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