The FaithX Project has numerous resources available to those faith leaders are looking to improve congregational vitality, transform ministries and programs, and more effectively engage their neighborhoods.
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This free, research-based online diagnostic tool designed to provide congregations with an objective in-depth assessment of their Vitality and Sustainability. The CVA measures ten areas of congregational functioning, such as Vision and Mission, Leadership, Lay Empowerment, Worship, Formation, Stewardship, and more.
This subscription-based version of the CVA will provide judicatories with a customized dashboard that allows them to directly coordinate the administration of the free CVA to their congregations, receive anonymized vitality and sustainability diagnostic summaries from those congregations, and add important locally-relevant data.
This subscription-based, interactive demographic/analytic platform enables faith-leaders to understand the stories of the communities they serve in comprehensive, deep, and granular manner, giving them the capability to tailor their ministries and program to the unique character and specific needs the different neighborhoods that make up the community.
FaithX offers a variety of assessment tools to aid in individual and congregational discernment. All assessment tools are free (though donations are graciously accepted and help to “pay it forward”).
Two books by FaithX executive director, Ken Howard, are available free through this website or at a discounted price from Amazon.com (though donations are graciously accepted and help to “pay it forward”).
Original and curated research on a broad variety of topics related to congregational vitality and growth.