Just want to thank everyone who participated in my very unscientific blog readership survey. I had over 350 responses. By the way, the Google form worked like a charm. It automatically takes form submissions and populates a spreadsheet.

Based on the folks that responded, here’s what I learned or confirmed:

98% attend church 2 or more times each month.

  • No shock here. Most of my content is about ministry.
  • Pretty amazing, actually, that 2% aren’t regular church attenders.

88% of readers don’t attend NewSpring Church.

  • That number is actually higher than I thought.
  • This is encouraging, though, because my primary target audience is other church leaders…not NewSpring attenders.

61% of you are on paid staff at a church.

  • Again, this isn’t a surprise to me.
  • Wish I would have thought to ask whether or not the remaining 39% are serving in some sort of volunteer role at their church.

Of those folks who are on paid staff, here is the breakdown on your roles:

  1. Senior/Lead Pastor - 22%
  2. Worship/Media/Tech Arts - 22%
  3. Student Ministry - 15%
  4. Admin/Finance/IT - 10%
  5. Adult Ministries/Groups/Care - 7%
  6. Communications/Web - 4%
  7. Children’s Ministry - 3%
  8. Other/Combo Roles - 16%
  • The shocker here for me was the number of “arts” folks following the blog. I’d love to hear from you. Why are you following my site? I don’t really picture myself to be writing to that audience.
  • And, would someone just let your children’s ministry folks know that there’s this thing that’s called the Internet and they can find all of their coloring sheets online now. :-)

Your thoughts? What surprised you about these results?

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