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Fourth Church Survey of Online Participation


During the pandemic, Fourth Presbyterian Church took up the challenge to provide “church” to its membership and beyond through online ministry. That online component has grown to include not only Sunday worship services but education, faith building, care, and social activities ministries. 


Fourth Church’s online services now reach a diverse and growing population. This includes the congregation’s in-person members, the 20 percent of our members who do not live full-time in the Chicago Metropolitan area, and a broad constituency of nonmembers throughout the U.S. and abroad. It also includes local members in Chicago who participate online due to age, health reasons, or personal preferences. This dynamic and varied community offers new opportunities — and challenges — of “doing church” in an inclusive and impactful way.


Our expansive online offerings can always be improved. Fourth Church’s newly formed Online Church Family Task Force wants your input on how you experience, and would like to experience, the church’s online services and programs. Results from this survey will be used to enhance the church’s online worship offerings and to build community.


We ask that each member of Fourth Church currently living in your household respond separately to this survey in order to precisely identify online engagement patterns within the entire church family.


In the coming weeks please watch for — and also take time to complete — a second, broader survey assessing Fourth Church progress implementing the long-range plan. We encourage you to respond to both surveys.


We very much appreciate your assistance by taking a few minutes to answer the following questions.


Thank you!

The Online Church Family Task Force:

Alan Bath, Gavin Daniels, Margaret Douglas (chair), Craig Endicott, Francia Harrington, Tom Hawkins, Ed Miller, Marc Miller, Kathy Rodak, Barton Tretheway, and Rocky Supinger (staff)

Online Worship
* Do you worship online with Fourth Church?
If you livestream the Sunday morning service, how often do you do so?
In what city/state/country do you most generally reside when participating in Fourth Church online worship?
0/50
Is the above location your primary residence?
If the answer above was No, where is your primary residence? (city/state/country)
0/50
Why do you participate in the Sunday morning service online? Check as many boxes as apply. Feel free to elaborate — in the space allotted below — on the reasons you check and add any additional reasons.
Additional reasons — or elaborations on — why you worship online.
0/500
On Communion Sundays would you want a participatory separate Zoom Communion service to take place simultaneously with the online portion of the service dedicated to Communion?

Which of the following points of connection would you like after worship concludes online? 
One-to-one care ministry with a pastor
Prayer with Deacons
Virtual Coffee Hour immediately following the service

Other Online Opportunities
Apart from worshiping online on Sundays, in what other Fourth Church offerings do you actively participate online? Check all boxes that apply.

In which of the following Fourth Church online opportunities would you participate if they were expanded?
* Bible study
* Book club study
* After-service sermon discussion
* Community forums
Online component of Sunday School for children
* Small group meetings with others in my geographic area
* Mission trip or single-day volunteer opportunities
Other
0/250

Your Thoughts about Online Opportunities
Which areas of Fourth Church’s online offerings (worship and programs) need improvement or present barriers to participation?
0/500
What do you particularly appreciate or what else would you like to share about Fourth Church’s livestreamed worship and other online opportunities?
0/500

Please Tell Us about Yourself
* Are you a member of Fourth Church?

Do you participate with another church, whether online or in person?
I am a member of Fourth Church who also participates with the following church(es):
0/500
I am not a member of Fourth Church, and I also participate with the following church(es):
0/500
* What is your age range?

The task force would appreciate it if you would identify yourself below in case we need to contact you to clarify an answer. While survey responses will be shared with task force members and Session, the reporting will not be “person-specific.” However, if you still wish your answers to remain confidential, please leave the name portion blank.
Name
0/50
Email
0/50
Cell phone
0/50

     We appreciate sharing your thoughts with us regarding this important ministry!                     
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