Judicatory Vitality Assessment

A window into the health of your diocese, presbytery, synod, or other judicatory

How healthy is your judicatory?

Want to find out?

The Judicatory Vitality Assessment (JVA) may be exactly what you need.


The Judicatory Vitality Assessment (JVA) is the first and only research-based, online diagnostic tool for assessing the vitality and sustainability of dioceses, presbyteries, synods, and other judicatories.


The JVA will help your diocese:

    • Diagnose its Vitality and Sustainability
    • Identify its internal/organizational strengths and weaknesses
    • Identify its strengths and weaknesses in the way it relates to its congregations.
    • Develop and prioritize strategies to improve vitality and sustainability by leveraging strengths to engage opportunities.

The JVA measures how effectively a judicatory is carrying out 16 vital areas of judicatory functioning, including:

    • Vision, Mission, and Discernment
    • Congregational Engagement and Empowerment
    • Context Awareness and Inclusion
    • Change Readiness
    • Dealing with Differences and Conflict
    • Spiritual Life and Worship
    • Formation, Education, and Training
    • Outreach to Congregations
    • Leadership and Organization
    • Stewardship
    • Collaborative Ministry
    • Assessment and Evaluation
    • Infrastructure
    • Judicatory–Congregation Trust
    • Providing for Leadership Growth
    • Ministry Development and Redevelopment

Cost: $2,695

Included in Cost:

  • Set-up: Customized for each judicatory.
  • Orientation: Initial training and one-month follow-up. Helping judicatory leadership think through how to integrate the JVA with their other evaluative processes.
  • Use for one year.
  • Continued research on congregational vitality and sustainability.
  • Continued refinement of the tool, including translating the questions and prescriptive recommendations into different languages and tailoring them to the ecclesiology terminology of different denominations.
  • Annual updates and upgrades based on the above.

Discounts include:

  • Judicatory Partnership Program: Judicatories that would like both the CVA Judicatory Platform and the JVA will receive a discount on the JVA. Contact info@faithx.com to receive the discount code.

Want to learn more about the Judicatory Vitality Assessment
and how you can acquire it for your diocese?

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