Analyze Your Community (By Curt Watke)
ANALYZE YOUR COMMUNITY
The Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry, Curt Watke, director, has a resource that can help you identify all of the varieties of people in your zip code. Here is how you can access this statistical information:
Go to www.iicm.net
- Click on “corps” in the IICM Missional Suite listing at the top of the home page. (Note: If you click on “zip code,” it will take you to a ‘for pay’ service which is much more in-depth, so click on “corps” for the free service.)
- Click on “register” to sign up for this free service.
- Fill out the registration information and click “register.” You will be notified by e-mail within 24 hours that you have been accepted as a registered user of this free service.
- Once accepted, sign in with your user name and password. Your Missional Corps personal dashboard will appear.
- Click on “Communityscape” tab and choose a category:
– Socioscape = Social lifestyle stats for your zipcode
– Ethnoscape = Ethnic & language stats
– Demoscape = Age, Economic, & Family stats
– Futurescape = Projected Topography upcoming
UNDER EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES YOU WILL FIND A WEALTH OF STATISTICAL INFORMATION TO HELP YOU DISCERN THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
This understanding is imperative if we are to think and act as missionaries to our community!
Rick McCollum
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