Radically Improve Your Church’s Volunteer Management
Our volunteer management assessments are designed to help churches MAKE, MATURE, & MOBILIZE disciples of Jesus Christ (i.e., Our “3M Strategy“). Additionally, it includes a powerful database to track everything!
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DAN WEBSTER: “Dave 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.
Assessments for Volunteer Mobilization
The ePersonality Assessment
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 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
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
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
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!)
For 21 Years, Serving Thousands of Churches, Helping them Manage their Volunteers!
BIG NEWS! In January 2024, after 21-years of serving churches, we launched a brand-new version of our software platform. It has markedly improved reporting features, is completely mobile friendly, and includes a new assessment for tracking discipleship! Consequently, considering these updates, we’re excited to help your church manage volunteers and support disciple-making for the next twenty-one years! to learn more about our new software, checkout our software tour.
Also, our platform includes everything you need. in a word, this means that all assessments and skill tracking are part of your monthly subscription. In addition, you only pay based on the number of people registered with your AssessME.org account, not the total number of people in your church. So, it’s easy and affordable to get started!
Cost-Effective Monthly Subscription Prices
Get started with the lowest price for the best assessments
NOTE: Your monthly subscription is based upon the quantity of registered members, not the size of your church.
STARTER
1-25 Members
$25/month
$1/person/month
All Assessments Included
SMALL
26-100 Members
$50/month
$0.50/person/month
All Assessments Included
MEDIUM
101-500 Members
$100/month
$0.20/person/month
All Assessments Included
LARGE
501-1,000 Members
$175/month
$0.18/person/month
All Assessments Included
UNLIMITED
Unlimited Members
$300/month
$0.12/person/month*
All Assessments Included
*Based on 2,500 people
No Test Drive Required
No test drive program is offered any longer. Why? Because in the past we offered a test drive for five people for $25.00. Today, you can access everything and assess twenty-five people in one month for $25.00 and then pause or cancel your subscription. This makes a test drive antiquated.
How to Pause Subscription:
How to pause your subscription. Log into your dashboard navigate the menu: Go to > Settings > Account > Subscription > Manage Billing (button) > Cancel Subscription (button). Your data will be retained so you may start-up again at any time to pick up where you left off. However, your data will not be accessible while your subscription is in “cancel” mode.
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.
Volunteer Management 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 church’s 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.
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 and professor (Drew University, George Fox University), and chief contributor to sermons.com
Leonard Sweet
Church Futurist, Author, Teacher & Speaker
LeonardSweet.com
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.
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