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Something new in 2022!

Congregational access to missional intelligence reports now available in MapDash

By The Rev. Ken Howard

Attention judicatory leaders!

Have pandemic budget cuts forced your denominational headquarters to discontinue access to local demographic reports by your judicatory and the congregations you serve?

Have you been waiting to commit to MapDashTM for Faith Communities until your congregations could directly access neighborhood demographic reports? 

The wait is over! 

The FaithX Project is excited to announce that, starting January 1, 2022, subscriptions to MapDash for Faith Communities, our affiliate Datastory’s highly-regarded demographic/analytic platform, will include an option for your congregational leaders to access interactive infographic Neighborhood Missional Intelligence Reports directly from their own laptop, tablet, or desktop computer.

Existing and new MapDash subscribers can now add this new experience for direct congregational access.

The fee for this add-on starts at $1,495 for up to 50 congregations. Additional congregations can be added for $500 per 50 congregations. For more than 200 congregations, contact us at info@faithx.net.

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For more information about how you can get this new MapDash add-on for your judicatory and its congregations or for guidance on your best option, contact FaithX at info@faithx.net.

Two Missional Intelligence Tools released in January

Two exciting missional intelligence tools were released in January:

Know Your Neighborhood (KYN), an online research tool deployed by Datastory for the General Convention Office of the Episcopal Church, will provide Episcopal congregations across the U.S an interactive snapshot of key congregational and neighborhood data. It will be available at no cost through the Research and Statistics page of Episcopal Church website (read official TEC press release).

Neighborhood Missional Intelligence Report (NMIR) version 1.1), developed by Datastory in collaboration with FaithX, is the next generation of an in depth, interactive, infographic report describing neighborhood demographic/lifestyle data and trends. It will be available to users who subscribe to MapDash for Faith Communities, and as part of Neighborhood Missional Assessments and other consultative services provided by FaithX (TEC’s Convention Office has negotiated discounts for NMIRs and other FaithX services accessed through the Know Your Neighborhood portal).

What’s the Difference?

Both the Know Your Neighborhood Report (accessed through the Research and Statistic portal)and the Neighborhood Missional Intelligence Report (part of MapDash for Faith Communities) are valuable tools to support strategic decisions.

Know Your Neighborhood provides users with a broad understanding of their community.

The Neighborhood Missional Intelligence Report, when used as part of MapDash (optionally coupled with analytic and consultative services), empowers faith leaders with the ability to ask an answer questions at both a broader and deeper level.

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Forecasting Emerging Missional Opportunities – Creating the Missional Opportunity Index (Part 1)

A good hockey player plays where the puck is.
A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky
(Canadian professional ice hockey player – 1979 to 1999)

Missional opportunity is like hockey in this respect: If you wait to engage it after it has already emerged, it is already too late to engage it effectively. If you do want to engage missional opportunity effectively, you have to be there, prepared and ready, where and when it emerges, because if you wait, you will be forced to play a losing game of reactive catch-up after the fact.

Say you are considering starting a new congregation. If you wait until a growing community has developed a sufficient number of people to populate and financially support a house of worship, the rising price of real estate will have made purchasing the property on which to construct it cost prohibitive (if there are any suitable properties that have not already been snapped up by builders or more forward-thinking denominations). Similarly, if your established congregation waits to adapt its ministries to its changing neighborhood until the transformation is complete, one-time newcomers may have set down roots in congregations that loved them enough to adapt to them. No, you have to be willing to take the risk of predicting where and when the opportunity is going to be doing what is necessary to be there.

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