• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Building Faith

Building Faith

  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Who We Are
    • Our Writers
    • Author Guidelines
    • FAQs
    • Subscribe
    • Contact Us
  • ARTICLES
    • Articles by Topic
    • Most Recent Articles
  • EN ESPAÑOL
  • RESOURCES
    • Curriculum Center
    • Intergenerational Resources
    • Vacation Bible School
    • Webinars
    • Episcopal Teacher
  • SUPPORT US
  • Show Search
Hide Search
Home/Ministry Leadership/Webinar: After the Survey: Using Assessment Tools to Empower Lay Ministry

Webinar: After the Survey: Using Assessment Tools to Empower Lay Ministry

There are many different assessment tools for ministry including Spiritual Gifts inventories, CliftonStrengths, and more. No matter which one you choose, they can be helpful for empowering lay ministry if implemented well. In this webinar, we will discuss strategies for doing so. Our presenters, Carol Pinkham Oak and Rachel Sosebee, will speak from their experiences of utilizing these tools and offer tips.

Watch the Webinar

You can find the video archived on Youtube, and the slides are shared via Google Drive.

Resources Found in this Webinar

  • The Equipping Church by Sue Mallory
  • The Equipping Church Guide Book by Sue Mallory and Brad Smith
  • SHAPE by Erik Rees
  • Group Publishing- Volunteer Management
  • The Once and Future Church by Loren Mead
  • Clifton Strengths by Gallup
    • Top 5 CliftonStrengths
    • CliftonStrengths 34
    • Living Your Strengths by Albert L. Winseman, Donald O. Clifton, and Curt Liesveld
    • Growing an Engaged Church by Albert L. Winseman
    • StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Don Clifton
  • Other Assessment tools
    • Spiritual Gifts Assessment Tool from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 
    • Spiritual Gifts Assessment from the United Methodist Church

About The Presenters

Rachel Sosebee has a passion for helping people grow deeper in their faith through service and brings almost 20 years of ministry experience, specializing in gifts based and equipping ministry cultures and building ministry support systems.  She served on staff in a local parish, as administrative staff for a denomination, and as a volunteer teams leader in national, regional, and local settings. Rachel is currently on sabbatical from professional ministry and focusing on her “job” of wife, mother, homeschool teacher, and international homemaker. You can email Rachel at [email protected]. 

Carol Pinkham Oak is Program Director for Thriving in Ministry at Virginia Theological Seminary. Experienced Rector with a demonstrated history of working with congregations, lay leaders and clergy. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Theology, Pastoral Counseling, Volunteer Management, Leadership Development, and Public Speaking. Strong community and social services professional with a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership, a Masters of Divinity from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

About the Author

  • BuildFaith Editors

    View all posts
Print PDF

February 12, 2020 By BuildFaith Editors

Filed Under: Ministry Leadership, Webinars Tagged With: spiritual gifts, survey, webinar

Primary Sidebar

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • RSS

Subscribe to Building Faith

You’ll get new articles, plus free weekly updates in your inbox.

We respect your privacy. View our privacy policy here.

Search Our Site

New Articles

"Visually Safe Disability Pride Flag" with red, yellow, white, light blue, and green diagonal stripes from upper left to lower right on a dark gray background

New and Recent Resources for Disability Pride Month

July is Disability Pride Month in the U.S. As Lizzie Cox explains in her article "Disability Pride …

Continue Reading about New and Recent Resources for Disability Pride Month

Two hands of a person with dark skin tone shaping bronze-colored clay on a pottery wheel in front of a blurred blue background with brown spots

“Nobody’s Perfect”: A Resource for Talking to Youth about Sin

Content warning: This article mentions sexual assault and racial violence. In November of 2018, …

Continue Reading about “Nobody’s Perfect”: A Resource for Talking to Youth about Sin

Circular dots of various colors aligned in rows and columns on a gold surface

Intergenerational Insights: What Is Intergenerational Ministry?

This article is part of a series on Intergenerational Formation Insights written after a literature …

Continue Reading about Intergenerational Insights: What Is Intergenerational Ministry?

Footer

Keep in Touch

  • Email
  • Facebook

Building Faith

Lifelong Learning, Virginia Theological Seminary
3737 Seminary Rd.
Alexandria, VA 22304

Copyright © 2025 · Building Faith · A Ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary

Design by Blue+Pine Creative, Inc.

Subscribe to Building Faith

Get articles and resources by email

Privacy Policy

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website.
If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.