Church Health Check
A tool designed by Livability's Community Mission team which offers ten key measurable factors for churches serious about community transformation.
Livability's Community Mission team works with a range of churches committed to working locally. We believe there are a number of factors common to all churches which will ensure sustainability and success for both the congregation and its community work.
This tool has been developed to help churches identify healthy ways of working and being.
The hope is to initially assess an honest baseline on which change and progress (or deterioration) can be identified and measured.
This is a tool that involves a healthy integration of prayerful reflection and strategic action planning. The idea is to look at each factor and assess honestly where, on a scale of one to ten, your church is in relation to each one.
The factors are:
- Presence Level of connectivity to the local community
- Impact Extent of social action work developed by the church to serve the local community
- Partnership Extent of church’s connection to other community services or projects
- Heart Size of congregation and committed membership
- Ownership Degree of involvement of the membership in mission
- Leadership Robust and accountable leadership team
- Roots Integrated theology and practice
- Adaptability Responsiveness to evaluation and willingness to accept change
- Finance Ability to fund core costs and be sustainable
- Vision Agreed vision and realistic strategy for mission to the local community
The health check