Research

The work of a pastor never really ends. You’re sermon prepping. Then you’re meeting with staff or elders. Next you have a couple visits with a congregant. And as you go from meeting to meeting, you’re thinking about a hundred other things–priorities for your Sunday school offerings, whether to continue growing your congregation or to plant a new church, and how to deal with the hundred different “small” things that come up throughout the week that, when added together, aren’t so small.

The result is what author Chris McChesney calls “the whirlwind.” There are so many things to be managed on a day-to-day basis that it leaves little time for working toward specific goals you have as a pastor or as a church. You really want to read that book, but you haven’t gotten to it yet. You would love to know more about your local demographics to better understand your neighborhood, but you don’t know where to look. Management wins and executing ideas gets lost.

Docent assists pastors facing these problems, pastors who are wearing too many hats and are feeling spread too thin. Our research team offers services ranging from book summaries to congregational surveys to sermon prep and planning assistance. With Docent, you don’t need to get bogged down on management. You can also execute important projects. When you partner with Docent, you are extending your research capabilities and guaranteeing that you’ll have the resources you need to do your job well.