My Findings

For my interviews I wanted to get a wide variety of people, so I made sure to get different age groups and genders. I talked to people from high school age to almost retired people. Every person I interviewed said that they would use a program similar to my project in a church. Nearly every person interviewed said they had attended or at least visited a megachurch and understood how difficult it can be to get involved. The question I got the most back and forth answer on was “Would you prefer to contact the leader of the ministry, or be contacted by the leader?” It was really 50/50 and I think that’s just based on someone’s personality type. This made me realize that the end page where the member gets information on how to get involved that they should maybe have a checkbox that says “Have the leader contact me.” Another thing I asked, just for curiosity’s sake, is would you be offended if the church used technology to help members initially get involved. I was a bit surprised to see that no one (even my older crowd) found this offensive as long as they were able to interact with a real person as the end result. I think this interview process, though small, was very helpful and would be interesting to present to churches in the future. The final thing I will mention is that I spoke with some people who are not active and regular church goers and these people even said that they would be willing to use a program like this to see how they could get involved in the church. I thought that was an awesome thought!