Assessments that Make & Mobilize Disciples!
OUR ASSESSMENTS PURPOSE:
AssessME.org exists to provide the local church with professional human resource assessments, designed to support the Biblical mission of MAKING and MOBILIZING disciples of Jesus Christ. Most of our assessments support ministry mobilization, with the exception of our NextSteps program which is designed to support active discipleship in any church, regardless of size.
OUR ASSESSMENTS HISTORY:
Work on our assessments started in 1995, when David A. Posthuma was a church planting pastor. By 2002, he felt called by the Lord to create a professional assessment system with a database and reports. That same year, he shared his idea with James Wiersma, a skilled web programmer, and they started E-Church Essentials, LLC.
They tested the assessments in 2002, and by 2003 they were available to the public. From 2003 to 2005, they made small changes to improve wording.
Today, AssessME.org has served churches in 35 countries. Some of the largest churches have used it to assess more than 10,000 people! AssessME.org is a trusted and well-tested system made just for churches.
Please note: AssessME.org is made to be an all-in-one program. We believe each assessment gives important information to help place people in the right areas to serve. It also shows each person’s level of spiritual growth. Once registered, your ministry will have access to all of the following assessments….
ABOUT OUR ASSESSMENTS SYSTEMS DESIGNER:
David A. Posthuma is the systems designer of our assessments. He earned a degree in Education from Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He also earned a Master of Divinity degree from Trinity University in Deerfield, Illinois. Later, he completed advanced training in clinical counseling at Mac Neal Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
David started two churches and helped rebuild several struggling churches. In 1998, he began a new career in software design for churches. He created Parent Pager, one of the first software tools for children’s security and communication, which many church systems now copy.
David is very skilled at designing systems. He has experience in starting churches, building new ministry programs, and creating assessment tools based on modern assessment theory. Select to learn more about David A Posthuma.
Our All-Inclusive Assessments
Personality Assessment
Help your church members understand God’s intentional design for their lives and ministry.
Spiritual Gifts Assessment
A temperament filtered spiritual gifts test for your church clarifies how a gift is best used.
Leadership Style Assessment
An assessment designed to help church leaders build effective teams.
Skills Tracking Program
In Exodus 31, God take credit for giving us our skills…i.e., O.T. spiritual gifts. Let’s keep track of all the skills God has given His church.
Discipleship Tracking & Equipping Program
Our revolutionary program assesses & equips your people for spiritual maturity.
Ministry Philosophy
White Papers
Get ready to dig deep into white papers and videos which explain our ministry philosophy.
Let’s See How Easy It Is To Use AssessME.org Within Your Church
STEP 1: INVITE PEOPLE, METHOD 1
Your Church’s Ministry Account will generate a custom QR code that you may download and use in PowerPoint big screen graphics, posted on banners, printed in your church program, etc. This is a fast and secure method to get your people to sign-up and begin taking assessments.
STEP 1: INVITE PEOPLE, METHOD 2
Use our mass-email system. Simply paste in all or some of your church’s email database and blast off an invite message labeled for your church.
Your people create and manage their own accounts. All you need to do is invite them to sign up. Our largest churches have assessed over 10,000 people by means of our Invite interface.
The Invite Interface will automatically report who has responded to your invitation, removing them from the Invite List, and permitting your staff to send additional invitations as needed. Most church members will respond positively to your invitation, especially if they have first been made aware to expect the invitation in their email in-box.
Most churches will have the majority of their congregation registered and completing their assessments within two to three weeks. Imagine the human resource data your staff will have at their fingertips!
STEP 2: MANAGE MEMBERS
The People Management Screen enables you to view assessments completed, view all assessment reports, and most importantly, use our Candidate Search Engine to find the right people for any position.
How to use the Candidate Search Engine? Simply create and ideal profile including any desired personality profile, giftedness, leadership style, skills, and spiritual maturity level, and the system will return to you all the people who most closely matches your profile. Now you have a short list of people that you may contact and affirm that they have what you believe it would take to succeed in needed service role.
STEP 3: AUTOMATED MOBILIZATION REPORTS
As your database begins to mature, and your people are completing all their assessments, our Automated Mobilization Reports will begin to function. This automated program looks at each person’s results across all assessments and skills tracking, and provides the most validated ministry candidates for specific service categories. These Include:
These broad mobilization categories cannot get so detailed as to, for example, recommend people to serve as greeters, but it provides for your staff distinct categories of people-types that are essential in every church.
STEP 4: GET STAFF BETTER EQUIPPED
The book Made for a Mission was authored by David A Posthuma to serve as the primary equipping method for church staff and key laity responsible for finding and managing volunteer staff. This book will take you much deeper than you could imagine in applying assessment data to real life ministry situations.
STEP 5: GET YOUR PEOPLE BETTER EQUIPPED
Our Pastor’s Class Kit is an entire training workshop that your staff may edit, add to, or take away content as they feel best. It is designed to be given in one Saturday from 10:00am to Noon Lunch Break, and then it continues from 1pm to 4 pm. The workshop not only helps your people understand God’s design for their life and ministry, but it also helps them understand other people types and how the entire Body of Christ is designed to work together. All information is based upon the book, Made for a Mission. The workshop includes:
- A Leader Guide
- A Student Workbook
- PowerPoint Presentations
