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Thomas Fode
Review
Christoph Schalk: How to Use
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3 Colors of Ministry in a Mentoring Relationship: Mentor’s Guide |
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Discovering one’s own spiritual gifting is an eye-opening
experience for many Christians. For local churches this might even turn
into a door-opening experience as they begin to recognize their
God-given potential. More often, however, churches seem to miss that open
door or even slam it by allowing gift discovery approaches to become an
end in itself.
That of course raises the interesting question as to how
churches can take advantage of that open door and enter through. How can
they move from just staring at the God-given potential to
releasing it in their ministry?
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Thomas Fode
Energy
Transformation
in a Latin American
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One day César Gatjens, National NCD Partner for Costa Rica, received a
phone call from a Latin American church leader. Pastor Carlos was deeply
concerned about a conflict situation he and his church were facing.
"César," he began to explain, "last Sunday one of our neighbors living
next to our church building showed up. He interrupted our worship service
and told the congregation in a forcible way that his patience with us was
about to run out. He no longer was willing to take the noise our
gatherings were generating. Finally, he threatened to take us to court and
have the authorities close the church." ―> more... |
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Welcome!
We are excited to present to you the first edition of
eNCDine, an e-zine (online magazine) featuring Natural Church Development.
While eNCDine itself is on the web, you can subscribe to our free
newsletter to make sure you do not miss the next issues. eNCDine will be
published every other month.
eNCDine (pronounce: ensideen) will provide NCD coaches
as well as pastors and implementation teams using NCD in their local
churches with tools, insights, updates on latest developments, and other
NCD related resources.
We want to make eNCDine as helpful
as possible to you in your ministry. That is why we want you to give us
some feedback on this first edition by answering our 3 minute
questionnaire
here. Thanks so much!
 If you like eNCDine, please do not forget to subscribe
to the free newsletter
here, and to forward it to your friends and
colleagues.
Every blessing for your ministry,
Christoph Schalk
NCD International |
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Jeannette Buller
Ending Well: Reflecting on the NCD Cycle |
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Good coaching includes reflection on what has been helpful, what might
need change, and what the best next steps might be. The same is true for
coaching a church through the NCD cycle.
By the time a church has worked its way through the NCD cycle, they have
experienced some changes, some disappointments, and some victories. An NCD
consultant does well to assist the Implementation Team in thinking through
the journey they have been on before launching into the next cycle.
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Christoph Schalk
NCD launched in Romania with 45 coaches
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Some say that the Transylvania region in Romania sits on one of the
earth's strongest magnetic fields and its people have extra-sensory
perceptions. Vampires are believed to hang around crossroads on St
George's Day, April 23rd, and the eve of St Andrew, November 29th...
Even with this history and a lot of other tourist attractions, it
seems that Romania (one of the poorest countries in Europe) will
also be known for something else in future – Natural Church
Development. ―> more... |
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Chris Vermeulen
Friary United Reformed Church: A
Case Study |
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Two years ago Friary United Reformed
Church committed themselves to a change process — from being a
‘maintenance’ or a ‘pastoral’ church to becoming a missional church.
The research project now has less than two years to run. There are
four phases to the project:
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An examination of Church Health
through NCD |
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A Community survey |
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Definition of missional church
and strategy |
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The development of each member. |
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Petr Činčala
Maximizing the Outcomes of the NCD Survey: Gift-oriented Ministry
Analysis |
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For the last four years, I have been working intensely with data
gathered from NCD surveys. As I kept entering surveys, my desire
grew to find ways of analyzing the data that would generate more
information than just eight numbers for each church. In the past six
months now, I have had the opportunity to work with the worldwide
NCD database.
That very database symbolizes a lot of energy invested
by people who filled in NCD surveys. In my view, reason enough to
provide a small window for analysis and see what can be learned from
the data.
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Christoph Schalk
Reaching Goals through Coaching (I) |
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Did you know that the word "coach" did not
originally come from the English language? It comes from the Hungarian "kocsi",
which means coach or bus. In 1556, it was used for the first time in
England. So, what is a coach? It is a vehicle that brings you to your goal.
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