Clergy transitions inevitably bring about significant change. At Holy Cow! Consulting, we recognize that these transitions can be challenging for congregations. When congregations find themselves in pastoral transition, they often face the daunting task of assessing their current situation and health, identifying their future goals, and determining who can assist them in taking those needed next steps.

This page is meant to help you customize the CAT for your clergy transition as quickly and easily as possible. Your order will come with our basic 85 questions. It will also include the Transition Module, which allows your church to determine how they plan to be involved during the time of transition, how they are feeling during this time of change, and how they feel about the future.

 Order the CAT for your Clergy Transition

What can we add?

  • Add one other supplemental modules of your choosing (information on CAT supplemental modules). Our consultants recommend: critical abilities, strategic planning, or the missional module.
  • Add up to five additional or supplemental questions specific to your church

What can we do with our supplemental questions?

Supplemental questions can be pulled from modules that were not selected or can be drafted by church leadership to help answer questions about congregational needs.  They can be in the form of multiple choice, checkboxes, ranking or rating, and comments or limited text responses. 

We do ask that you avoid questions regarding decisions on who will be your next clergy, decisions around who you are and are not willing to hire in leadership roles, and other important specific congregational outcomes that need further discussion.

What happens at our data review (interpretation)? 

For the interpretation of your CAT results we recommend you have leaders of your congregation present including your church board, mission study team, strategic planning team, search team, etc. For our suggestions on getting the most out of this time please read: Best Practices for an Interpretation

What will this cost? 

It is always our goal to be transparent and clear about costs. All of the costs are outlined here:  Cost of the CAT

For other general information on the Congregation Assessment Tool or to customize your CAT your way please visit: https://holycowconsulting.com/congregations/congregation-assessment-tool-cat/

Want to learn more about our consulting work for Clergy transitions? https://holycowconsulting.com/pastoral-transitions/