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NCD health and financial giving

The following chart indicates the relationship between levels of NCD health and the percentage of ministering, small group and worship service attending church members who give 10% or more of their gross income in tithes and offerings for church support, missions, etc. As with all correlative data, it is important not to suppose a cause effect relationship here between health and giving. All we can say is that there is very strong evidence that if you are concerned about church finances, you would be wise to seriously address church health.

About this site

This site is an initiative of NCD International as part of its ongoing partnership with the Vineyard movement. For more than a decade, NCD International along with its National Partners in many countries, has endeavoured to support the inspiring work of Vineyard as it has worked at developing healthy, multiplying churches around the world. Many of these churches have made great progress in NCD health and you can read some of their stories on this site.

Why NCD?

Natural Church Development is about discovering and doing the most important, practical things right now for the salvation of the world in and around your church. After a quick survey and the short time it takes to receive your results, you can get started straight away on the activities that will make the very best use of your available time, treasure and talent. Hundreds and hundreds of Vineyard churches around the world have already experienced the fruit of the NCD process.

NCD in the Vineyard Multiplication statistics

The following chart indicates the relationship between levels of NCD health and the likelihood that a church has planted another church in the previous 5 years. Clearly the relationship is strong. As with all correlative data, it is important not to suppose a cause effect relationship here between health and planting. All we can say is that there is very strong evidence that if you want to pursue church multiplication, you would be wise to seriously address church health.

Analysing Your Minimum Factor: Inspiring Worship Service

Skrivet av Ian Campbell tis 12 apr 2011 - 11:54fm

The purpose of this series is to offer some basic “entry points” for beginning to explore your Minimum Factor graph.

This post is for those whose Minimum Factor is Inspiring Worship Service.

Two initial points need to be made.

First, all the questions relate to the degree to which the worship service is inspiring. The higher a question’s result, the greater its contribution to the service being inspiring.

Male Clergy - A Medical Allegory

Skrivet av Ian Campbell mån 11 apr 2011 - 3:51em

I am convinced that a fair percentage of male clergy treat the health of their church the same way as they treat their own health. The NCD process has made this link very apparent. I wrote the following allegory for an NCD National Conference back in 2004. Not surprisingly things haven’t much changed. Nor, as experience has taught me, have the issues been much different in places outside Australia. It goes like this. (The Australian male is known colloquially as the “Aussie bloke”.)

Temporary Suspension of Gravity!!

Skrivet av Liam Glover ons 23 mar 2011 - 2:13em

Temporary Suspension of Gravity!

Such news would be plastered across headlines of newspapers world wide. Regular broadcasting would be interrupted to capture the effect of such amazing news. The very principle of gravity, thought to be always and continuously applying, suddenly and inexplicably suspended. A story just waiting to be understood, relayed and interpreted by all and sundry.

Whose survey results are they?

Skrivet av Adam Johnstone lör 28 aug 2010 - 10:57em
Since it is called an NCD Church Survey, the answer to the question "whose survey results are they?” would seem obvious. "They are the results for our church!” In a sense this is true, but clarity about the specific human face of the results will have a dramatic impact on how well you use your time and energy in making plans and taking action as well as accelerating your rate of progress.

Why are you thinking about using NCD?

Skrivet av Adam Johnstone lör 21 aug 2010 - 10:52em
What are your personal expectations as you approach the NCD Survey in your church? What "signs of success" will you be looking for and how long are you prepared to work at it? How do you expect NCD will change your church? How do you expect it will change you?

Perhaps some of the following paraphrases expressed by pastors approaching NCD may resonate with you:

"I haven't thought about my expectations. NCD has some good ideas in it and I'm going to give it a go."