With your database of churches easily available to you via this web site, you are in a powerful position to connect churches with each other for mutual learning.

This can be done on the basis of churches with the same or opposite minimum factors, churches that have done a similar number of surveys, or churches that have just done one survey. There are two particular factors that make these connections very powerful:

1. The common language that the eight quality characteristics and other principles of NCD provides, allows leaders from extremely different backgrounds to have very meaningful discussion without their differences getting in the way.
2. The simple experience of seeing a set of results that are different to your own immediately removes various preconceptions about what is possible within church life, and a personal connection makes those different results come to life.

The ideal connections to make are between leaders whose churches are located fairly close to each other, as this allows them to potentially meet up in person.

In other cases, you can recommend a telephone or Skype call between different leaders, or even offer to join them on the call to help facilitate the discussion until it begins to happen all by itself.

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