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Christoph Schalk
There are many reasons why churches take an NCD Survey. We would like to know what YOUR reasons are. Take part in our lottery and win a valuable book.
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Adam Johnstone
You have embarked on the NCD journey. You are trying to make progress on your NCD results. But sometimes you wonder what this journey will bring about in the life of your church. Get a better idea of what you can reasonably expect from your passionate efforts towards more health.
Continue reading "NCD Growth Projections... where are you going?" »
Christoph Schalk
There have been many positive changes since Christian A. Schwarz first published his gift test in 1988. A survey at the time showed that 80 per cent of church members were not aware of their spiritual gifts. Things have changed considerably in the meantime, with a wide variety of gift tests now available, although the topic is still of high relevance. In 1988 only about 20 different test procedures were known throughout the world, whereas nowadays many associations, organizations and even churches offer their own – often home-made - gift tests. What is often overlooked, however, is that tools developed by amateurs tend to produce false or highly inaccurate results. The effects this has on church ministry are far-reaching.
Tara Miller
The previous article on NCD Insights laid out the steps of how to use the NCD Insights tool. This follow-up article will walk you through a brief case study to see how that process worked out in one particular congregation. A case study that will help you appreciate the Insights Process and its benefits.
Continue reading "Walking through the NCD Insights Process" »
Tara Miller
Your church takes the NCD Survey and you get the report noting the scores for each of the 8 quality characteristics. What do you do next? How can you effectively improve your church's minimum factor to increase health and release greater growth potential?
Dave Wetzler
NCD's health growth process starts off with a diagnostic survey. That is by design, not by default. Have you ever thought about why that is a good starting-point? Why it is better to start with a diagnostic survey rather than another teaching seminar? There are some pretty good reasons ...
Continue reading "Benefits of Starting with a Diagnostic Survey" »
Natural Church Development (NCD) has quietly become a worldwide movement that is helping churches improve their health and is drawing people closer to the triune God.
To date some 52.000 NCD Surveys have been taken worldwide to profile the quality of local churches. A track record that reflects 20 years of experience in quality assessment as basis for intentional church health development. It is this long-standing experience that makes the NCD Survey system unique among church profiling tools.
Get an overview of what the NCD story is all about and see what NCD has to offer:
Adam Johnstone
In Color Your World with Natural Church Development Christian Schwarz writes, "I would like to persuade you to join [the NCD] community... You join this community simply by sharing its principles. And you share its principles not by verbal affirmation, but by applying them to your personal life and the life of your church." If application is the key, we also need to ask, "How fruitful are our ways to apply those principles?"
Christoph Schalk
Organic Quality Management (OQM®) is a fast and reliable way of monitoring the quality development of Christian non-profit organizations and church ministry teams / leadership teams. Learn more about the practical value of OQM.
Continue reading "How Does My Organization Benefit From OQM?" »
Christoph Schalk
Organic quality management (oqm®) measures and develops the health and quality of an organization – and is the "biotic brother" of Natural Church Development (NCD), designed for Christian not-for-profit organizations. Read more on what makes oqm® so unique.
Continue reading "The ABC’s of Organic Quality Management (Part 2)" »
Christoph Schalk
Organic quality management (oqm®) measures and develops the health and quality of an organization – and is the "biotic brother" of Natural Church Development (NCD), designed for Christian not-for-profit organizations. What makes oqm® unique is its holistic assessment of an organization according to the following three dimensions: structural ("Organization"), human ("Organism") and spiritual ("Spirit").
Continue reading "The ABC’s of Organic Quality Management (Part 1)" »
Thomas Fode
Over the last months NCD International has been busy developing a new survey tool. Based on the latest research, a new and improved version of the NCD questionnaire has now been produced to meet the needs of the growing global NCD community. Its release is scheduled for July 1, 2006.
Thomas Fode
Years ago the Institute for Natural Church Development developed a tool called Detailed Analysis. A diagnostic tool designed to help NCD churches understand the underlying factors contributing to their current church profile. Meanwhile a new generation of detailed analysis tools has been released. Take a closer look and discuss with us the pros and cons of each tool.
Continue reading "Detailed Analysis - The Next Generation" »
Almost 10 years have passed by since the original NCD research had been completed, and a scientific survey had been released. It’s time now to move to the 2nd generation of NCD – and to make the NCD survey even more precise, more user-friendly, and “sync” it with the latest research findings. You can help us with your feedback on the current version. Click here to participate in our “survey on the survey” and win an NCD Training Set on DVD (a 299.00 EUR value – approx. U.S.$ 380.00).
If you like, you can download the current version here.
Note: The "survey on the survey" has been closed. The winner of the DVD set is Eddy Hall of Living Stones Associates. Thanks so much for all your feedback!
