MissionInsite is a cloud-based data tool that helps you get to know your parishioners and community, and understand how to best reach them.
MissionInsite provides demographic insights to help you discover ministry opportunities, understand parishioner concerns and needs, assess what is most important to the people in your area, and pinpoint what will inspire them to come back to the pews.
Get to know your congregation and community
Create and adjust ministry opportunities based on data
Inspire people to come, participate, and share
Click the “Request Access” button and once you’ve submitted the form you will be contacted with further information about the tool and how to sign up for a user account.
The Archdiocese has already purchased a MissionInsite subscription, so it won’t cost you anything.
MissionInsite provides geographical information and demographic data from third-party sources such as the Census Bureau. Additional insights are gleaned from surveys and reports, some of which are customizable and some of which are compiled from existing data.
MissionInsite provides data and insights including:
You can use the tool to focus more locally or more broadly depending on what insights you would like to examine.
Sources for MissionInsite data include:
Focus on the data and insights that will help your parish or school answer the questions: who are we, and who are our neighbors? How can we better plan ministry, mission, budgeting, and building opportunities?
With MissionInsite, you can create a geographical radius (for example, 15 minute drive time) and focus on:
MissionInsite also provides information on the best way to communicate with specific groups of people, and demographic projections for future years.
With all of this information, look beyond the numbers, graphs, and reports to understand how this information can shape your ministry and mission opportunities.
Follow the instructions in the training video below to understand how to use MissionInsite and get the most out of the tool.
If you are new to the tool, please review the training video below.
If you still have questions after reviewing the training, contact Rob Brock, Director of the Strategic Planning Office, at [email protected]
MissionInsite is a tool intended to be used by a Families priest(s) and/or staff.
I am convinced that Beacons of Light, born of great hope, will enable us to form stronger parishes, centered on the Eucharist, that radiate the love of Christ and joy of the Gospel… God has abundantly blessed our first two centuries and will certainly bless the next.
— ARCHBISHOP DENNIS M. SCHNURR