Core Ministry Counts (CMC)

Core Ministry Impact

Core Ministry Impact is our practice of real-time measurement that allows us to gain insight into the core health of a ministry, empowering staff and volunteers to understand, celebrate, and focus on the important work of reaching and teaching more adolescents.

Core Ministry Counts (CMC) is a tool with CMI that will help us move from estimating to counting students involved in real time, and is a new way of reporting 3 key metrics:

  1. The Number of Kids Known by Name – The total number of Kids Known by Name with whom a leader has met (in person), can call by name, and is praying for.​ This number grows monthly and is always entered as the last day of the month.
  2. Number of Students and Leaders at Club each week (or No Event).
  3. Number of Students and Leaders at Campaigners each week (or No Event).

Dates for Entries:

For monthly Kids Known by Name entries: The count date for KKBN is the last day of the month for that month. You do not have to enter the number on that date, but select that last day of the month each time you enter Kids Known by Name.

For weekly Club and Campaigners entries: You have until noon each Monday to enter data from the previous week. The calendar date (count date) should be the Saturday ending the week of events. YL Connect reflects a ministry week of Sunday to Saturday. We use the last day of that report period for easier tracking and the most grace in reporting, even if you are entering in data a day different than Saturday. 

How to Enter Counts:

Use the Core Ministry Count Report found on your mission unit’s home page to check if you are missing entries or have duplicates that need to be corrected.  Click HERE for instructions on how to edit previously-entered CMCs.

Definitions of Core Ministry Impact Terms

Ministry Management 

Areas should use this form to indicate any one of the following to the regional office:

  • Create a New Ministry or Mission Unit.
  • Close a Current Ministry.
  • Edit a Current Ministry (Rename, Update Status, Transfer to another Mission Unit, etc.).
  • Create New Location.