Tools and Samples
There are a number of tools available to help your church on the Campaign journey. Most of these tools are available for download when you register your church for Color Your World. Others are available through your NCD National Partner.
(Please note that for the Campaign, these tools are currently only available in English. Other languages will be progressively added in due course.)
Following is a brief explanation of each and how to obtain them.
Invitation from Christian Schwarz
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This short video invitation from Christian Schwarz can be used in your worship services on the lead up to the Campaign to provide an overview and encourage people to participate. It can also be used by your small group leaders at the beginning of the Campaign.
It is available in a number of downloadable formats.
Pastor Workbook
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The Pastor Workbook is the starting place and roadmap for your Campaign journey. A copy will go into the hands of each member of a small Pastor Team responsible for steering your church through Color Your World. With the help of instructions, checklists, scripts, creative suggestions and links back to this web site, the workbook will guide the Pastor Team in...
- developing 5 worship services in line with the themes of Color Your World
- identifying and supporting the Color Your World small group leaders
- taking care of the organisational details of the Campaign
The Pastor Team will also have the opportunity to empower selected people in the church for some other optional roles detailed in the Pastor Workbook. These include...
- a 3 Color Dinner Team
- a Color Your World News Team
- a Prayer for Light and Color Team
- a Decoration Team
(available for download after registration)
Small Group Leader Workbook
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Whether you have many experienced small group leaders or will need to ask some people to specially lead a group during Color Your World, the Small Group Leader Workbook will make life easier. It provides checklists and step-by-step instructions for facilitating 5 weekly interactive group sessions. These sessions include discussion around the week's reading topics, quizzes for fun, discovering the 'Color Profile' of each member and your church as a whole, exploring your church's NCD Survey results, as well as prayer times and practical weekly exercises to help each member to color their world.
More experienced group leaders are also given the freedom to shape the sessions to best fit their unique small group.
(available for download after registration)
Reading Recall Videos
These downloadable 7 minute videos are also available for your small group leaders to show at the beginning of group sessions to help members recall the readings of the week. Each of the 5 weekly videos conclude with a discussion starter from Christian Schwarz. If needed, help is provided through the Color Your World web site on how to produce these videos in a format convenient for your small group leaders to use.
(available for download after registering your church)
The Color Your World book
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The book, Color Your World with Natural Church Development is the primary text studied each day by all Color Your World participants. Churches registered for Color Your World can obtain a discount of up to 50% on this book.
We know that people read in very different ways. Some take hold of a book and read it from cover to cover. Others read some sections and leave others alone. Still others prefer to just look at headlines and pictures. Because of the format of the full-color, illustrated, Color Your World book, your people get a choice. In less than 5 minutes a day, those who are not avid readers can gain an overview of the topics according to a simple pattern.
Of course, keen readers can fully study and even explore the online infomation beyond the book. It's only natural since in one respect, Color Your World is about the diversity that makes up God's creation - even the reading styles of His children.
(available from your NCD National Partner)
Click the image above for a sample of the Reading Guide Introduction including the summary reading pattern.
Reading Guides
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Your participants will be taken through the Color Your World with the help of a set of Reading Guides. Each week-long guide outlines the daily readings. To prepare for their weekly small group discussion, the readers are encouraged make notes in the guide about their reflections and questions from the Color Your World book.
(available for download after registration)
Promotional Material
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To help get your people on board for the Color Your World journey, there are a number of promotional tools available. These include a video invitation from Christian Schwarz, a Color Your World poster, participant invitations and more.
To also assist in this promotional phase, a number administrative worksheets are also provided.
Most of these are provided in template form to allow you to customize them for your unique church.
(available for download after registering your church)
The Natural Church Development Church Survey
The NCD church survey is an integral part of Color Your World. Each participating church will complete an NCD survey within the 12 months prior to the Campaign.
Each Color Your World church will also complete another NCD Survey during the year following the Campaign. This enables your church to objectively assess its progress and the helpfulness of the Campaign.
(available from your NCD National Partner)
Other Color Your World theme materials
Other Color Your World theme-related materials like video projection backgrounds are also available.
(available for download after registering your church)
Also available to anyone with a 'Color Your World with Natural Church Development' book is much of the artwork contained in the book.
(available by entering the code in the Color Your World book into the NCD International web site)
Support from the Color Your World Team
Color Your World is intended as a creative, highly interactive event. Therefore, throughout the Campaign, registered churches have access to ongoing assistance from the Color Your World team.
At any stage, simply click on one of the 'I have a question' links throughout the site, choose a communication option, and we will be happy to assist your team in finding ways to call out the artists of life from within your church.
The Color Your World web site
The communication hub throughout Color Your World is the web site you are currently on. Membership is free and allows leaders of your church and church members access to the growing pool of experience within the Color Your World community as well as their own space (blog) to share ideas with others. The site is a very flexible tool that allows you to be kept informed by a number of means. Why not take the time now to set up an account (and in the process give us permission to keep you up to date via email before, during and beyond Color Your World).
Click here to download a summary of the Campaign to share with your leadership team.