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Our Philosophy of Ministry:
Disciple-Making & Disciple-Mobilizing
Using Professional Human Resource Assessments
Assessments for Churches & Parachurch MinistriesOur assessment program for churches is designed to help church leaders employ the right staff, recruit the right volunteers, and build highly effective ministry teams. This program offers a secure database with extensive reporting features. Our program for churches is all inclusive, featuring all our assessments plus skills tracking at a low monthly subscription. Click here for our introductory video.
Self-Assess…Assessments for IndividualsOur Self-Assess program is for individuals not associated with an AssessME.org ministry. It offers our most popular assessments designed to explain why God made you the way He did, and how your design informs your Kingdom purpose. It includes: The ePersonality, GraceGifts, and Leadership Style assessments…all for only $19.99.
Assessments for Church Mobilization & Discipleship
The ePersonality Assessment
THE BENEFIT TO YOUR CHURCH: Understand each person’s design for ministry service.
The ePersonality assessment is our most popular tool for managing volunteers, and it’s easy to see why. Because we created it using a classic four-quadrant model, similar to Meyer-Briggs, DiSC, or Keirsey Temperament.
But here’s the big difference: our assessment is made just for Christians. Consequently this means it helps people understand why God created them the way they are. Because of this, our tool helps people find out what kind of ministry work they are meant to do.
The GraceGifts Assessment
THE BENEFIT TO YOUR CHURCH:Personality filtered spiritual gifts explains how each person prefers to use their spiritual gifts…no guessing!
The GraceGifts assessment is the most advanced test for finding Spiritual Gifts and managing volunteers in your church. Moreover, it’s specially designed to help you manage your volunteers better. In particular, GraceGifts is one of the tools we offer to support your ministry and get people involved.
Our default Spiritual Gifts Assessment looks at practical gifts based on personality profiles. But you can also use a bigger list of gifts at no extra cost. As a result, you get the best and most useful information for your ministry.
The Leadership Style Assessment
THE BENEFIT TO YOUR CHURCH:Understand how to build highly effective ministry teams.
We created the Leadership Style Assessment to help your church build better leadership teams. In reality, this is important for managing volunteers. Because, we believe that everyone in your church was made by God to serve Him and others.
So, this assessment helps people understand their own special way of influencing others and see how their style fits with the styles of other team members. As a result, they go from just helping out to becoming active and engaged leaders. In other words, learning about your Leadership Style shows you how you fit in and help the church community.
Organic Skills Tracking
THE BENEFIT TO YOUR CHURCH:God provides your church with everything you need to accomplish his purposes; this includes the skills He has developed within each person.
Tracking skills is very important for managing volunteers. Because, after all, we believe that God gives us everything we need to do His will, including the skills He has given us (see Exodus 31:1-3). These skills are similar to spiritual gifts but come from our natural traits, as described in the Old Testament.
That’s why it’s so important to keep track of these skills for managing volunteers. So doing helps us see all the skills God has given to our church community. These skills are not only useful but also show us how our skills fit within our God-given temperament.
NextSteps Discipleship Tracking & Equipping
THE BENEFIT TO YOUR CHURCH:NextSteps organizes your discipleship efforts, providing both insights into each person’s spiritual development, and matching them to the specific resources designed to help mature their faith.
AssessME.org wants every church to practice Active Discipleship. However, many churches are too big or complicated to do this well without some help. For this reason, we spent fourteen years creating a software platform that makes Active Discipleship easy for any church, of any size, to use.
Consequently, our NextSteps software helps church members become followers of Jesus as well as leaders who help others. So, by joining and supporting their church’s programs, they help with the church’s mission.
NextSteps also has a special feature called the Equipping Center. It’s important to realize how it helps match each person with the right resources they need to grow in their faith. So, our software not only helps people get involved but also gives them the support they need to grow.
(NOTE: We have formed a strategic partnership with the Navigators and will soon add full integration with the Navigator’s disciple-making library into NextSteps!)
How It Works
Our assessment program includes a Mass-Email Invite System. You simply paste-in the email addresses of the people you wish to assess…and hopefully this is everybody in your church…and they then receive a secure email invite labeled with your ministry name. Each person proceeds to create their own user accounts and from there to complete their personal assessments. It is truly that easy! In fact, a mega-church can have the majority of their congregation assessed within only a few weeks. View our sample email invite below…
Introductory Video
About David A Posthuma
Designer of the AssessME.org Assessment Platform
DAVID POSTHUMA: Live Training Events
To schedule David A Posthuma for a live training event at your church or conference, please call 1-800-724-1159, or use our contact form.
REVIEW BY DAN WEBSTER: “David A. Posthuma of E-Church Essentials, LLC (& AssessME.org) share my passion to train and inspire leaders to live authentic lives of great impact. Rarely do you meet someone as passionate about the church with the technological genius of David A. Posthuma. I love how he is helping churches by leading them into the technological future. Pay attention to what he is doing and access his outrageous resource. It will help you as you both grow and organize your church.”
Dan Webster
Authentic Leadership, Willow Creek, Crystal Cathedral
Authentic Leadership Inc.
REVIEW BY LEONARD SWEET: “Ever wonder what it was like to have been on the ground floor with Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com or Pierre Omidyar of eBay.com? Wonder no longer. Join David A Posthuma of E-Church Essentials and hold on–the future of the church is forming before your eyes and under your feet.”
Leonard Sweet
Para-Church Leader, Speaker, Author, & Seminary Professor
Leading Technology + A Proven Ministry Philosophy
BIG NEWS! In January 2024, after 21-years of serving churches, we launched a brand-new version of our software platform. AssessME.org now offers markedly improved reporting features, it is completely mobile friendly and includes a new assessment for tracking discipleship! Lord willing, these updates will enable AssessME.org to help your church manage your volunteers and disciple-making for the next twenty-one years! To learn more about our software, checkout our software interface and reports.
Our Philosophy of Ministry
To learn more about how we use assessments to promote ministry, check out our Ministry Philosophy page. Altogether it explains how we use assessments to help make and guide disciples in your church.
Equipping Books for Church Staff
ACTIVE DISCIPLESHIP©
Become an Active Discipleship Church
The passive discipleship model, which many churches have used for the past 30 years, mainly focuses on Sunday morning services and small group meetings. However, this approach often leaves Christians with limited understanding and not fully ready to share their faith effectively.
On the other hand, Active Discipleship© combines clear instruction with our powerful Discipleship Tracking software. As a result, we can help make real disciple-making a reality in your church. Our approach ensures that Christians are not only knowledgeable but also prepared to actively share their faith.
MADE FOR A MISSION©
Mobilize People into Ministry!
Made for a Mission© is designed to help church leaders use our assessments effectively. All in all, this training gives you important insights that you might not discover if you use our assessments without this support. For example, it will teach you how to understand the unique data results and spot individuals who could pose risks to your ministry.
You will also learn how to identify key “red flags” that might otherwise be missed. in brief, these “red flags” could potentially harm your church and its members. So, let’s work together to create a healthy and impactful church by learning and applying these essential mobilization principles.
eSHIFT©
Is Your Ministry Out of Date?
Today, many churches still use a ministry model from the early 1980s, a time when television was a big influence. Because of this, these old models are now outdated. Consequently, as Baby Boomers begin to pass away, churches need to update their approach to reflect the values of the internet age. Additionally, artificial intelligence (A.I.) will speed up this change.
eShift© helps churches adapt to the internet era and shows how to make changes before it’s too late. As a result, by understanding and adopting these new ideas, your church will stay relevant and effective in today’s and tomorrow’s fast-changing world. [SEE RECOMMENDATIONS BELOW].
What Leaders Say About eShift..
LEONARD SWEET: “I expect this book to stir controversy, but of the best sort: Eye-opening and mind-altering perspectives on what it might mean for the church to embrace the internet today as the primary delivery system for learning and faith development as our Protestant ancestors adopted the book as their primary delivery system in the Reformation Church.”
Leonard Sweet
Best-selling author
Professor (Drew University, George Fox University)
DAN WEBSTER: “The church has been choking for decades on the naive assumption that the world hasn’t changed. eShift provides the necessary Heimlich Maneuver to clear her throat so that the fresh air of life and relevance can return. If you are over 40 this writing will be a wake-up call. If you are under 25 you will shout Hallelujah that someone has finally stated things as they truly are. Either way, eShift is a gift to the church. Let’s hope it’s one that is opened and applied, not ignored.”
Dan Webster
Authentic Leadership, Willow Creek, Crystal Cathedral
Authentic Leadership Inc.
David’s Training Articles & Updates
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