And the winner is…Sermon Survey Results!

Dear SCC,

Two weeks ago before I went on a sermon retreat I invited you to take an online survey to help me plan for next year.  The response was excellent and many ideas were helpful.  I also asked you to give us some feedback on how easy it was to invite people to past series, how each series helped you grow in your faith, and the overall quality of each series.  We invited you to leave your name to enter a drawing for a $10 gift certificate to Jackie’s.

And the winner is…Paul McCrumb.  Congrats Paul! 

I thought you might find the results of the survey interesting.  Each score is out of a top possible score of five.  Here are the results:

Top Three Overall Series (Invite + Growth + Quality / 3)
1. Dancing with God – 4.3
2. Why? – 4.2
3. Baggage Claim – 4.2

Top Three Invite Series
1. Dancing with God – 4.4
2. Walking with Bilbo – 4.3
3. Why? – 4

Top Three Growth Series
1. Timothy – 4.1
2. Why? – 4.1
3. Baggage Claim – 4.1

Top Three Quality Series (All series received a 4+ rating for overall quality!)
1. Dancing with God – 4.6
2. Baggage Claim – 4.5
3. Timothy – 4.4

Top Three Invite Events
1. Swing Dance – 4.5
2. SCC Goes Bowling – 4.4
3. SCC Goes to the Hobbit tied with Pancake Party – 4.1

Because of the feedback you gave us, we’ve planned some great series and events for this coming year.  You’ll see us doing our best to host fun events like the Swing Dance and taking SCC on the road so it’s easy to invite your friends.  You’ll also see another series digging into the emotional pain from our past similar to the Baggage Claim series, and during the summer we’re going to be interacting with the summer blockbuster movies.  We’ll continue to do one Bible series in the winter/spring and one in the fall.  The series Why?, which was about suffering, showed up over and over again at the top of your ratings.  I plan to deal with suffering in a full-length series every other year, but will hit on it several times here and there in other series.

Maybe the most encouraging thing to those of us who plan worship was that when it came to quality, every series was rated at a four or higher.  That means you see what we’re doing as very high quality.  It continues to be our hope and prayer that we would turn a cafetorium or a diner into an environment where you and the friends you invite can encounter God.  Thanks for helping us plan how to do that this coming year!

Peace,
Pastor Tom