Church Health Community

1. To communicate and encourage a health mindset and strategy for advocating healthier church ministries.
2. To assess local church health-related needs and potential within their contexts (based on eight essential qualities).
3. To deliver up-to-date resources and workshops that provide creative church health solutions.
4. To assist churches in adopting concepts that will ultimately produce health within their contexts.

The Community will: 

1. Discuss the latest church health concepts – stirring the team’s thinking through reading books and exploring web-related resources together.
2. Discuss opportunities and solutions for church health concepts in our cultural setting.
3. Discuss issues derived from district cohorts concerning church health concepts.
4. Explore together church health concepts for congregations in our cultural setting.
5. Focus on segment of the National Conference gathering to church health – providing a district or national level speaker as requested.

The Scope of the Community’s Agenda:

• Empowering leadership
• Gift-oriented ministry
• Passionate spirituality
• Functional structures
• Inspiring worship
• Holistic small groups
• Need-oriented evangelism
• Loving relationships

Chair:  Church Health Associate – Rev. Wayne Houck   Email

Membership:

• The Bishop and the chairperson shall appoint the members who are to serve on the community. The National Conference may, by its rules, populate each community by assigning various groups, committees and entities into existing communities based on their assigned work and create new communities when practical.

There are things that any church can do to start growing healthier.

1. Assess the health of the ministries of your church. We are utilizing a new resource for this. For only $99 dollars, you may share the Church Ministry Analysis 2.0 tool from the Malphurs Group with everyone in your congregation and receive a comprehensive report which details the “Six Pillars of Church Health”: a Great Commission Focus, Core Values Alignment, Discipleship Pathway Effectiveness, Vision Clarity, Strategy Deployment and Leadership Culture. Just go to https://malphursgroup.com/cma/ to start the process. When you fill out the form, you will be asked to select a guide from the dropdown list – just click on my (Wayne Houck's) picture to add me as your guide.
2. Start listening to church revitalization podcasts. Some recommended examples are The Church Revitalization Podcast, The Carey Nhieuwhof Leadership Podcast, Revitalize My Church Podcast, The Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast and The Child Discipleship Podcast. You can find them on Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. While not every topic of discussion may apply to your particular ministry, the concepts and ideas may get the wheels turning, and you can share relevant episodes with your leadership team.
3. Reach out to the Church Health Community. Some of the most productive conversations we have start with “What do you think about…?” The Church Health Community is a resource provided by the EC Church, and we would love to hear how we can help you. Feel free to email me anytime and let me know how we can be of assistance.