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| How is the Context Report presented? |
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| The report is organized into seven sections all
of which use Gap Themes, Summary Bars and Narrative Text. A gap theme is simply a piece of
information, which can be easily compared between two groups such as the congregation and
the community. The narrative text provided underneath the gap theme summarizes some of the
key information from the comparison and presents it in a question and answer form. The
summary bar highlights the overall comparison in each of the gap themes. The simple table
graph on the right side of the page shows some of the actual data figures behind the Gap
Theme. The icons can also be helpful guides in reading the graphs. If the icon is a
church, it means the response is the church’s. If it is a face, it means the response
is the community’s. If both are present, then the data refers to both the church and
the community. |
| The seven sections are: |
| PART 1: The Community which answers the question,
“Who lives in our mission-target area?” |
| PART 2: The Congregation which answers the
question, “Who are the people in our church and what is important to us?” |
| PART 3: The Comparison which answers the
question, “How are we like or different from the community we’re trying to
reach?” |
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| NOTE: Part 3 is a
comparison between the church and the community and introduces the term
“divergence”. The divergence factor simply addresses the question, “How
different is the congregation from the community on this response?” or, in Parts 4, 5
and 7 “How much difference is there between our or the community’s assessment
and the ideal ?” High divergence means a larger difference in response, followed by
moderate and low divergence. Where the two comparisons are about equal it’s listed as
“convergent”. In these sections, the gap themes are presented not in numerical
order but beginning with the theme or program in which there was the highest divergence
(difference) and ending with the lowest divergence or convergence. |
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