Church Health Check

The Church Health Check is an online survey designed for church leaders to provide their perspective on church health and activities.   

It can be completed by a single leader or a leadership team.  

It offers a starting point for reflection with a supervisor, coach or mentor or within a leadership team.

Your church receives an Overall Church Health Check Score out of 100.  

Your church receives a health check report across 6 factors of healthy churches

1. Overview

A leader’s perspective of the church’s overall vitality and their confidence in church’s ability to achieve its goals and vision

2.  FLOW

Healthy churches have new people joining, people stay, and attendance is stable or growing

3. UP: Connect with God

Healthy churches help people connect with God

4. IN: Connect with each other

Healthy churches help people connect with each other

5. OUT: Connect with the community

Healthy churches help people connect with the wider community

6. FORWARD: Vision and Leadership

Healthy churches help people move forward in new ways with a clear vision and an empowering leadership culture.

How does it work?

If you have a church consultant, or someone who will support you to reflect on the results, plan to work with them to get the most out of the process. 

Decide if you will use this tool as a single leader or as a leadership team. 

Pick a time period when you will complete it.  You will need to choose a start and end date.

Once you place an order, you will receive a weblink to the online survey that is associated with your church.

When your survey period is complete, then you will by notified that your results are ready to view online.

 

How much?

For a single leader: $50 (+GST) 

For up to 10 leaders: $250 (+GST), then $30 per additional leader

to run the survey and receive the pdf report regardless of the number of participants.

 

About the results

Churches receive a report across 6 key areas of church health- based on the NCLS vitality framework

There are two types of questions which produce results.   

1. Ministry Measures.  Leaders provide indicators of the presence of an activity and/or the number of people involved.   If a team completes the Church Health Check, then the report displays the average for the indicator (e.g. number of small groups)

2. Evaluations of Church Health. Leaders evaluate aspects of church health using four vitality subscales out of 25. Each subscale (UP, IN, OUT, FORWARD) has 5 questions with 5 options. Each score is simply based on adding up the value of the option selected.

E.g. In your own view, how well does your local church build strong, healthy relationships among attenders? (Hardly at all  1             2            Well  3               4            Very well  5)

The Overall Church Health Check Score is out of 100.  It is the addition of the four vitality subscales out of 25.