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Natural Church Development (NCD) is based on a research project of 45,000 churches, on 6 continents, and in 70 countries. Its intent was to discover the universal church growth principles that all healthy and growing churches share worldwide.

In this one-day seminar Empowering The Church will introduce you to a process that stimulates your church to greater health and ultimately leads to church growth.

Being a healthy church

• The church is considered a living organism
• Every form of life must be healthy in order to accomplish God's purposes
• Churches must be healthy in order to function as God designed
• Church health is related to how well the Body of Christ functions in fulfilling God’s mission and purposes
• Eighty-five percent of the churches who implement Natural Church Development experience numerical growth

What You'll Discover

• The 8 quality characteristics that all growing and healthy churches have in common worldwide (No characteristic may be missing).
  • Empowering Leadership
  • Gift – based Ministry
  • Passionate Spirituality
  • Effective Structures
  • Inspiring Worship Service
  • Holistic Small Groups
  • Need – oriented Evangelism
  • Loving Relationships
• How to determine the one area in which your church needs to focus to improve its health.
• The 6 habits of healthy churches that are needed to form the foundation of your ministries (God’s Growth Forces).
  • Interdependence
  • Multiplication
  • Energy Transformation
  • Sustainability
  • Symbiosis
  • Fruitfulness
• The 5 stages of implementation needed to make Natural Church Development an inherent part of your church.
  • Prepare
  • Diagnose
  • Plan
  • Implement
  • Evaluate

Empowering The Church can show you how Natural Church Development is a powerful process for assessing the health strengths and weaknesses of your church, then developing and implementing an action plan for improving church health by removing limiting factors.

To find out how your church can be involved in Natural Church Development, Contact Thomas Broadhead or call 770.918.5105, Conyers, GA.

What will ministry look like in your church this next year? Will it be "business as usual" or will you make an intentional decision to assess the health of your church and then take strategic steps to move forward? We want to help you improve the health of your church!

 

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