Healthy Churches

Stop guessing and start assessing the health of your church. Developing healthy hearts, healthy heads, and healthy hands.

Natural Church Development

Natural Church Development has done the most extensive research in the world and they discovered that there are 8 non-negotiable quality characteristics in every healthy life-giving church. Their survey of 80,000 churches globally revealed that churches who focus on being healthy also grow numerically.

Your church can be both a healthy and growing!

Discover

Phase

ASSESS

Determine areas of strength and areas of weakness.

Develop

Phase

STRATEGIZE

Create a clear plan for strategic next steps on the path to health.

Equip

Phase

EXECUTE

Implement processes and structures that will ensure growth.

Empower

Phase

MENTOR

Provide resources and training for members and leaders.

8 Quality Characteristics of Healthy Churches

1) Empowering Leadership -Are your leaders focused on equipping believers for ministry?

2) Gift Based Ministry -Are tasks in your congregation being distributed according to the criterion of gifting?

3) Passionate Spirituality – Is the spiritual life of the church members characterized by passion?

4) Effective Structures – Do the structures of your church contribute to growth?

5)Inspiring Worship Services –Are your worship services an inspiring experience for your members?

6)Holistic Small Groups –Do the small groups address the life issues of all their members?

7)Need-Oriented Evangelism –Are the evangelistic activities related to the needs of those you are trying to win?

8)Loving Relationships –Are the relationships of the members characterized by love?

6 Growth Forcesof Good Decisions

1) Interdependence– How does this decision affect other areas of life?

2) Multiplication– Does this decision contribute to multiplication or merely to addition?

3) Energy Transformation– Does the decision take advantage of the resources in the environment?

4) Sustainability– Do the results of this decision have built in mechanisms to sustain themselves?

5)Symbiosis–Does this decision foster a fruitful co-operation between different activities?

6)Fruitfulness–Does the decision produce visible fruit for the Kingdom of God?

The Trinatarian Compass

1) The Reflective Side – God Above Us– Focus on tolerance and social justice.

2) The Proactive Side– God Among Us –Focus on Evangelism and Fellowship.

3) The Affective Side– God In Us -Focus on Emotional Health and Spiritual Power.

The Minimum Factor Barrel

Our NCD research has shown that the minimum factor is an obstacle that stands in the way of improving the health of the local Church. However when the minimum factor is intentionally addressed and improved it increases the overall health in the Church.

The NCD Survey gives you results, where you will discover your minimum factor as well as the strengths of your Church.

You can stop Guessing and start Assessing!

The NCD Cycle

Everything you do has a starting point. Start today and discover the strengths and weaknesses of your church. Repeating this process yearly is what gives strength to this process. This process takes about 12 to 18 months to fully complete but can be easily integrated right into your church schedule and even help you navigate and implement strategy in a more effective way.

Phase 1 – Discovery Phase

Phase 2 – Develop Phase

Phase 3 – Equip Phase

Phase 4 – Empower Phase

NCD Tools & Resources

For each one of the quality characteristics of healthy churches, there is a book that helps individuals increase the quality in their heads, hands, and hearts. Each of these books is connected to one major assessment tool.
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  • Turn Barriers Into Opportunities
  • Apply 6 Growth Force principles
  • Build spiritual momentum
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Primary Care

$1,095

  • Survey Online
  • Basic Profile
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  • 2 hour phone coaching by Health Coach Specialist
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  • 1 Colour your world with NCD book
    1 All by itself Pathway
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Preferred Care

$3,295

  • Survey – Online
  • Basic Profile
  • NCD Result Guides
  • Weekday & Weekend Package
  • 3 Day Onsite Consultation
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  • Survey Online
  • Basic Profile
  • NCD Report Manuals
  • Weekend Package
    • Preach (Healthy Churches)
    • SWOT Observation
  • 3 Day Onsite Consultation
    • 1 on 1 Review with Lead Pastor
    • Profile Analysis with Church Leadership Team
    • Strategic Action Planning with Implementation Team
    • Forward Pathway with Executive Team
  • 3 Colour your world with NCD Books
  • 3 All by Itself Pathway Books
  • 3 Follow up Skype calls throughout the year
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Premium Care

$4,495

  • Survey- Online
  • Basic Profile
  • NCD Result Guides
  • Weekday & Weekend Package
  • Premium Support & Consultation
  • 3 Day Onsite Consultation
  • 6 Skype Followup assessments
More
  • Survey Online
  • Basic Profile
  • NCD Report Manuals
  • Weekend Package
    • Preach (Healthy Churches)
    • SWOT Observation
  • 3 Day Onsite Consultation
    • 1 on 1 Review with Lead Pastor
    • Profile Analysis with Church Leadership Team
    • Strategic Action Planning with Implementation Team
    • Forward Pathway with Executive Team
  • 3 Colour your world with NCD Books
  • 5 All by Itself Pathway Books
  • 6 Follow up Skype calls throughout the year
Get Started

Resources for Healthy Churches