Surveys: asking the congregation
How do I hear from our people directly, repeatedly, without reading anyone's private answers?
Surveys are longitudinal: you run the same survey as waves over time, so you can watch a number move rather than reading a single snapshot. Two surveys are built in — a broader church health assessment and a short pulse — and you can also write your own.
- Wave
- One run of a survey with its own open and close. Comparing waves is where the value is: run the same pulse each quarter.
- Invites
- Sent by email to Planning Center people who have an email address on their record. You can scope a wave to a campus or membership group.
- Shareable link
- Every wave also has a public link on your Disciplytics address you can put in a bulletin, text or slide for people you don't have emails for.
- Response rate
- Invites sent against responses received, per wave — read it before you read the results.
- Segments
- Results split by campus or membership, using the person's Planning Center record rather than anything the respondent has to type.
Results are aggregate-only. No one — not your staff, not Disciplytics — can open an individual submission from the app, and any segment with fewer than 5 responses is suppressed rather than shown. Tell your congregation that plainly when you invite them; it is the reason the answers will be honest.
- 1Open Surveys and choose a built-in survey or create your own.
- 2Start a wave, optionally scoped to a campus or membership group.
- 3Send invites to synced email addresses, and share the public link for everyone else.
- 4Leave it open one to two weeks, then read the aggregate results and segment breakdowns.
- 5Repeat the same survey next quarter and compare waves.
Example
A pulse wave in January returns 61% agreement on "I know how to take my next step here"; the April wave returns 74% after you rewrote the connect card process. One campus stays at 58% — that is where to put attention, and it is visible without reading a single individual answer.
Where to click: Surveys