Skills, Interests, Called & Gifted™ Charisms, and Clifton's© Strengths

Skills, Interests, Called & Gifted™ Charisms, and Clifton's© Strengths


What they are

Many parishes have found that evangelizing is not a one-size-fits-all exercise. People come to the Lord at different points in their lives, for different reasons. To truly comprehend a person’s spiritual growth, church staff have found that understanding each person’s talents - be it skills, interests, charisms, or strengths - help the individual and the church community at large. By naming these assets, people can begin to assess and measure exactly what God has gifted them with. These four categories of talents are based on discussions with several church leaders and staff, who use one or more of these labels in defining people's attributes. We've designed the Mission Suite to be flexible enough to manage each type of talent, based on an organization's faith structure.

Note: We have included Charisms from The Called & Gifted™ Discernment Process, and Strengths from Clifton's Strengthsfinder© as many parishes have adopted these structures in identifying charisms and strengths.

Why they matter

These data points are incredibly useful in your evangelization and discipleship programs. Once they are assigned, the talents can be reviewed and utilized where they are needed. In addition, each person will become more conscious of their unique gifts and have a better idea of how they can be used to serve the church and its greater community. With this information, you can start finding people based on specific attributes. This will give you an overall picture of what skills or gifts the active participants have, and which skills or gifts are currently not represented. It also will help “tell the story” of an individual’s faith journey as they hone their current skills and take on new challenges (maybe as potential leaders!).

How to request them from participants and volunteers

Most skills, interests, and the like are gleaned from self-evaluation, conversations with others, or maybe how a person is presently serving in the church or elsewhere. The Mission Suite has designed an easy way to ask for specific skills, interests, strengths, or spiritual gifts by creating a detailed list under each of these items. If a certain item is not currently in a specific list, it can be added. Refer to Adding Skills, Interests, Charisms, or Strengths sections to the Registration Form below.

Making the data work for you

As an evangelization leader, you can begin to collect and maintain this information on an individual level to keep the evangelization funnel “primed.” Through Find People in the Inform module, you can create a search to find lists of the skills and interests of parishioners and those who are just beginning to be curious about the faith.

Adding Skills, Interests, Charmisms, or Strengths sections to the Registration Form

To get started, if you have not yet, set up the session for which you would like to add these attributes to the registration form. For instructions in setting up a session refer to: How to Set up a Session.

1. From the Session Overview page, select the session for which you would like to add Skills, Interests, Charisms, or Strengths as fields in the registration form.


2a. From the Session Overview page, click on the Customize Registration form link.
2b. Click the arrow next to Skills, Interests, Strengths, and Spiritual gifts to open the section. Select which of the categories you want displayed on the registration form. You can also make any category a required field.
2c. Click Update. The categories will display (and show as required) on the registration form based on your selections.


3. When a participant receives the registration link, the Skills, Interests, Called and Gifted Charisms, or Clifton Strengths you have selected will be displayed in the registration form. As shown below, the Skills and the Called and Gifted Charisms categories are displayed, with Called and Gifted Charisms a required field, denoted by the *. The image below is an example of a registrant populating the Skills and Called and Gifted Charisms categories from pick lists in each.


4. When a registrant completes and submits the registration form, any Skills, Interests, Strengths, or Spiritual Gifts they have selected will be included in their Person Profile.


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