"To reach your community, you must know your community."
		Listening and learning as the eyes and ears so the Church can function doing the prayer, care, share as the hands, feet, and voice.
		Strategic Information Center Ministries:
		*CityView Reports *Top 10 Twin Cities Ministry Trends Seminar * TrendView Reports *Teaching/Training Classes *Congregational Consulting *Church Mailing/E-Mail/Fax Lists * CityLook: Research and Information Gathering Guide * List of Top 100 Twin Cities Churches * FutureView Report: The Twin Cities 25 Years Out * Research and Ongoing Tracking * Citywide Knowledge Management and Deployment * Annual Church Census Data Project * CitySearch Archival Retrieval Service * Curriculum Development * Publications * Networking: Neutral clearinghouse connecting point * Citywide Idea Management

"Research serves as a road map for bringing the life and love of the

church to the needs and pains of the community."

Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson The Externally Focused Church

"It is the hard, cold facts that time and again have

motivated the Churchin a nation to action."

Jim Montgomery Then The End Will Come

Information comes from simply listening and learning as its basic core elements.  CV has created sophisticated research and information gathering strategies, knowledge management, data mining, bench marking, best practices, knowledge mapping, cultural scanning and trends, and analysis that reveal what's really going on beneath the surface in our neighborhoods and cities. 

"Research is not something unspiritual or irrelevant to the business of ministry.  It is rather the essential foundation for strategic effective ministry." 

John Robb Focus: The Power of People Group Thinking

We at CV know that the Church is very busy doing its piece of prayer, care, and share and often doesn't possess the training, time, or tools to adequately do the listening and learning pieces.  CV focuses on these pieces so you don't have to.  Once the listening and learning steps of the information piece are completed the church's decisions, effectiveness, and results in the prayer, care, and share pieces are dramatically and exponentially increased by using the information as a key to externally examining its ministry surroundings.  Without this important information key, vital ministry needs and opportunities will simply be overlooked and missed.  Information simply is the fuel for your ministry. 

"Research of the right kind can help us know where we are, and what our trajectory is.  If we can locate ourselves, we can orient ourselves so we are pointing toward our vision once again."

Bryan Myers Perspectives

Look around and Discover the New Twin Cities.  The new CV Strategic Information Center and its ministry tools were designed to help you and your church do just that. 

"We must have a clear understanding of our city and our resources

in the city to strategically reach the city."

Jack Dennison City Reaching

"Just as it takes money to make money,

it takes knowledge to make knowledge."

E.D. Hirsch, Jr. The Schools We Need

"The key to ministry in this Next Reformation is intellectual capital in general, and innovation and creativity in particular."

Leonard Sweet Soul Tsunami