Many of our churches are not fulfilling their God-given callings. Instead, they find themselves in survival mode. While they desire to be obedient, certain barriers to health seem insurmountable and real fulfillment remains elusive. Yet by implementing the Natural Church Development (NCD) process, we've seen thousands of churches increase their effectiveness through improved church health.
NCD is a watershed movement, empowering leaders to discover new ways to increase church health and growth. Applying observable laws and paradigms of nature to the arena of church health, NCD can help strengthen your congregations as they learn how to better live out the vision, mission, and growth God has designed for them.
To learn more about NCD and the international research project on which it is based, or find an NCD national partner, please go to NCD International.
We are eager to help you improve church health by providing resources, coaching, training, and consulting.
Clicking on one of the topics to the left, and you can:
* See a sampling of the church health resources offered by CoachNet.
* Find a qualified coach to help your church through the NCD process.
* Learn the dates of future NCD training events for potential coaches, as well as how to host your own denominational coach training.
* Gather more information about the consulting CoachNet provides in the area of church health.
The CoachNet website provides vital resources for increasing church health and for implementing NCD in your church. A subscription to www.coachnet.org allows you access to thousands of pages of information, training material, coaching guides, worksheets, and other resources... all right at your fingertips.
CoachNet has developed coaching guides for each phase of the implementation process of Natural Church Development. These guides will walk you step-by-step through the process of leading your church toward improving your minimum factor. From the experience of hundreds of churches, we have developed the process, the handouts, and the presentations that will allow you to create your own unique path to church health. CompuCoach also has many coaching guides that relate to church health. Click here for a list of current CompuCoach coaching guides.
Downloadable files give you handouts and PowerPoint presentations to use in your church for each phase of the implementation process.
Web-courses are available to help you discern key issues to address in your minimum factor as you guide your church toward greater health.
Worksheets from Releasing Your Church's Potential put practical tools into your hands to improve your minimum factor.
Additionally, the CoachNet community provides the opportunity for you to network and develop relationships with other church leaders from around the world-- many of whom can relate to and support you in your particular ministry circumstance. Join CoachNet!
Recommended Books
To order any of the products below, call ChurchSmart Resources at 1-800-253-4276. International customers call +1-630-871-2598 or email ChurchSmart@coachnet.org.
* Natural Church Development by Christian Schwarz ($20.00)
* Paradigm Shift in the Church by Christian Schwarz ($20.00)
* Implementation Guide to Natural Church Development by Christian A. Schwarz & Christoph Schalk ($15.00)
* ABCs of Natural Church Development by Christian Schwarz ($2.00)
* Releasing Your Church's Potential by Robert E. Logan & Thomas T. Clegg with Jeannette Buller ($95.00)
Visit ChurchSmart.com to see other NCD or Church Health resources.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.
Wouldn't it be great to have someone walk with your church on its journey toward revitalization and health? It's been proven over and over again that having a coach partner with a church through the NCD process easily doubles or even triples overall fruitfulness. CoachNet can link you to trained NCD coaches who can help you implement the NCD process. To find a coach click here.
CoachNet also offers you the opportunity to produce your own NCD coaches. Coach training delivered through a denominational structure is more than just another seminar brought to your leaders and soon left behind-- it carries the seeds that will help you produce the next generation of NCD coaches from within your own networks. CoachNet teaches you how to train your own NCD coaches, contextualizing the training for your ministry situation. Interested in exploring this option? Please contact us.
Would you like to become an NCD coach? CoachNet partners with ChurchSmart Resources to train coaches for the Natural Church Development process.
Note the training events below:
Natural Church Development Coach Training [Sponsored by ChurchSmart Resources]
* Phase 1
o April 14-16 ~ Chicago, IL
o July 27-29 ~ Chicago, IL
o September 22-24 ~ Chicago, IL
* Phase 2
o April 18-19 ~ Chicago, IL
o September 26-27 ~ Chicago, IL
Register online at www.churchsmart.com or call ChurchSmart at 1.800.253.4276. For more information about the public NCD Coach Training events in 2005, see training or read a description by downloading the CoachNet Training brochure.
Perhaps you are considering training NCD coaches for your denomination. That's a great idea! One of the most effective means of delivering NCD Coach Training is through the denominational structure. Our CoachNet trainers can come to you, and work within the framework of your existing structures. We train your top leaders in NCD theory and coaching, and provide follow-up as well. This arrangement provides the opportunity to design the training event to best meet your needs, and to help you strategically develop your own denominational plan to implement NCD coaching. Contact us to learn more.
As the demands for NCD implementation increase within your denomination, you may want to launch an NCD coaching movement. Last year's debut of the Train-the-Coach Trainers event enables you to develop your own NCD coaches for future generations of NCD implementation. Contact us us for more information or click here for more details on your NCD training options.
Imagine the world-wide, the kingdom-wide, the eternal impact of a movement of healthy churches reproducing themselves. Too good to be true? Not so. At CoachNet, we are well aware that seeing that dream realized requires intentional, one-church-at-a-time efforts. But we believe God can do amazing things. That's why we want to come alongside you-- to help you develop contextualized strategy that works in your ministry context. By working together, we can see your vision for growing healthy, reproducing churches become a reality.
We offer consulting to individual churches, to networks of churches, to districts and to entire denominations that want to improve the health of their churches. If you would like to learn more about a one-time or extended consulting partnership with CoachNet, just contact us.