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Church Health & Ministry Assessment

Measure a wall
against true.

A plumb line checks uprightness, not rank. Plumbline helps church networks across India see the health and spiritual formation of every congregation. Each is measured against a framework the network defines, never against one another.

  • Measured against true, never ranked against another church.
  • Your network's own questions, scale and wording.
  • Health and formation you can watch deepen, year on year.
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If you are a Pastor or a Leader of a Church that is part of a network already in Plumbline, then ask your network's leadership for access, or sign in with your Google account.Leading a network that would like to use Plumbline? .

Kept in confidence

Your answers are visible to you and to your network's leadership. They are not shown to other churches, and they are not used to rank pastors or congregations.

A faithful picture

What is this?

A church answers a set of questions its own network has written. The answers become a picture of health and formation over time, showing where there is strength and where deeper development would help. The cards below are illustrations only, with made-up wording and made-up numbers.

While answering

Section complete

Example

While an assessment is in progress, you see how much has been answered, not a running score.

Next up
The next section your network has written
Network health
Example
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A health band, in words rather than a mark

Leadership sees the whole network together, then each section and question beneath it. Real figures appear only once you sign in.

Areas for deeper development
Named from your own framework
Configure the framework

Scoring scale

Example
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Discrete buttons per allowed value. 5 is excluded, so nine answers are selectable.

One network, three roles

Who it's for

Everyone works from the same framework, and each person sees only what their role needs.

Network administrators

Shape the framework

  • Write your own sections, categories and questions
  • Set the scoring scale and health bands
  • Add churches, leaders, clusters and regions
  • Open an assessment year when you are ready
Church leaders

Answer honestly

  • Sign in and begin, or pick up where you left off
  • One question at a time, easy on a phone
  • Answers save as you go; no score while answering
  • Submitting keeps your answers safe and unchanged
Network leadership

Read and respond

  • See the whole network, then each section and question
  • Notice strengths and areas for deeper development
  • Follow each church's journey year on year
  • Plan care and equipping where it will help most
A considered rhythm

How it works

01

Answer honestly

Respond to questions shaped by your network, with room for honest reflection.

02

See where you're true and where to grow

Receive a clear picture of strength and the places where deeper formation may help.

03

Watch it deepen over time

Return in later years to see how health, maturity and capacity are developing.

For network leadership

What leadership receives

Everything is built from the churches' own answers, and nothing is used to rank one church against another.

A report for every church

Each section, category and question set against your health bands.

A network picture

Participation and overall health, with charts that each answer a clear question.

A record over time

Past reports are kept unchanged, so growth can be followed year by year.

Ideas for growth

Suggested ways to strengthen each area, drawn from how the network answered.

Pastors' own words

Written reflections and feedback, gathered in one readable place.

Reports to share

PDF and spreadsheet exports, each noting exactly what they include.

A truer measure

Measure against true, not against each other.

Bring Plumbline to your network and give every church an honest, confidential picture of its health and spiritual formation.

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