Church Health Track

Choose this consultation track for your church if:

* The purpose of your consultation is to enhance church health and ministry effectiveness.

* You do not need major help with facility and financial planning.

If your church goes through a Church Health Consultation, what payoffs can you expect?

You will know what your Natural Church Development minimum factor is and your consulting team will have worked with you to identify why this is your minimum factor. Your leadership team will have experienced (on Saturday of the site visit) a session of teaching and vision-casting helping them to understand in general terms what the church's primary ministry agenda needs to be for the coming year to strengthen your minimum factor.
You will have in place a Church Health Team to facilitate the precise identification of key issues related to your minimum factor. With the guidance of your Ministry Coach (a member of your consulting team), this team will develop and facilitate the implementation of an Action Plan.
Your Ministry Coach will be connecting you with equipping resources to improve ministry effectiveness, especially in the area of your minimum factor.
Provided you implement the major recommendations, your church is almost certain to be measurably healthier a year after the original site visit. Eighty-five percent of churches, upon taking their second NCD survey, show measurable improvement in church health.

You will have a staffing plan that identifies any areas in which you are understaffed or inappropriately staffed including prioritized recommendations for optimizing staff effectiveness. This covers not only pastoral and program staff but also office support and facility staff. Staff vacancies provide a valuable opportunity for considering restructuring, redefining, or redistributing staff assignments to optimize effectiveness. Concerns you raise about competence of present staff are typically handled privately with the senior pastor and/or your personnel committee.
If applicable, we will provide you with guidance and coaching for the process of beginning or continuing the transition from the traditional "minister for hire" model of church staffing to the more biblical "equipper of ministers" model.

You will receive an analysis of your giving level and your giving potential, as well as an assessment of what rate of growth your present and projected giving levels can support.
If applicable, we will give you guidance on establishing a growth fund out of which future growth needs, including facility needs, will be funded. Our goal is to help you meet future growth needs with little or no debt so that money that would otherwise have been spent on interest can be invested in ministry to people.

You will receive limited recommendations for optimizing use of your present facilities through scheduling changes, programming changes, converting single-use space to multiple-use space. This consultation package does not include recommendations for major remodeling, additions, or new construction. If you need these services, choose our Integrated Planning Consultation.

You will emerge from this process with a clear description of what immediate barriers to healthy growth your church faces in the areas of church health, ministries, and staffing (but not facilities and finances).
You will not only have received recommendations for how to remove these barriers, but these recommendations will be prioritized so that you know which areas require attention first.