CHURCH

HEALTH

CONSULTATION

WHAT YOUR
CHURCH GETS
Choose this track if: 

  • The primary purpose of your consultation is to increase your church's health and ministry effectiveness.
  • You do not need to address major facility issues such as remodeling or expansion.

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

Ministries

  • 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.


Staffing

  • 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

Finances

  • You will receive an analysis of your giving level and your giving potential.
  • Learn best practices that stimulate generosity in your congregation.  (In some cases, the increased giving from implementing these practices can far more than cover the  cost of the consultation.)

Facilities

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

Integrated Planning

  • 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). Recommendations for how to remove these barriers will be prioritized so that you know which areas require attention first.