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Mar 30 2022

How will the Covid Endemic Impact Your Congregation?

by Mary Frances

About once a month I gather with leaders from a group of congregations to talk about changes they can make in order to do a better job of living into their mission, vision and values.  At our next meeting we are going to talk about how to assess the effectiveness of the changes they have made.  So often, we allow major decisions to hinge on a handful of stories without ever taking the time to thoroughly evaluate what we are doing.  Now that we are moving from the Covid pandemic to the Covid endemic, this might be the time to start a thoughtful and thorough evaluation of what you are doing to live out your mission, vision and values as well as why.  

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Written by Mary Frances · Categorized: COVID-19, FaithX Blog · Tagged: congregational vitality assessment, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, COVID19, Endemic, hybrid congregation, hybrid worship, livestream services, Neighborhood Missional Intelligence Report

Jan 13 2022

Congregational Vitality Assessment: ahora en español

By the Rev. Ken Howard

The FaithX Project and the Episcopal Church Foundation are happy to announce that the popular Congregational Vitality Assessment is now available in Spanish.

This has been in the works for a couple of months now, first with the questions, ratings, and prescriptive paragraphs of the survey itself and then with the entire website on which it resides. The first step was an AI translation. And because Artificial Intelligence can sometimes be artificially unintelligent with small details like colloquialisms, we sought the help of a translator to find and correct any faux pas. And as we learn more about the languages spoken by CVA users, we plan to bring more translations online. As always, the SIngle Congregation Version of the CVA remains FREE. 

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Ken Howard · Tagged: congregational vitality assessment, CVA, CVA-JV, early adopter discount, espanol, feedback, spanish, Spanish language, translation

Sep 23 2021

Hybrid vs. In-person… still?

By Steve Matthews, FaithX Senior Associate Consultant

What? Can you believe it has been almost two years since we first heard the words “COVID-19?”  So much has changed, so many lives lost, so many fatigued health-care workers, school teachers, parents… pastors and priests.  It has definitely been a loooong season calling us to adapt to new challenges.  My feelings can be summarized in the poem below. I read it for the first time a couple of years ago and recently resurrected it for a staff devotion:

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Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog · Tagged: congregational vitality assessment, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID19, CVA, David Budbill, fatigue, poem

Sep 15 2021

Our Free CVA Webinar, the Glitch of all Glitches, and an Unforeseen Opportunity

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade… right?

The lemons…

Life dropped a huge pile of lemons on us today as we were starting our long-awaited Congregational Vitality Assessment webinar.

The lemons started falling as soon as we “opened the door” to attendees. Suddenly, we began to see a flood of emails and texts from people who couldn’t get in. 

The Glitch…

Apparently, the glitch to end all glitches had happened. As far as we could tell, the handoff from Eventbrite and Zoom wasn’t working right. Some people got in with no problems. Others got in quickly once we sent them the webinar link directly. And some couldn’t get in even with the direct link.

In any event, after 10-15 minutes of panic-y workaround, we were able to get around 50 people in the door, including some (but not all) of the people on the waiting list. As the doctor said in Young Frankenstein, “Could be worse… Could be raining.” Providentially, since we were all on Zoom, even if it had been raining, it wouldn’t have made it a total washout.

The Lemonade…

We already had planned to send all attendees the webinar video, presentation StoryMap, and resource link, so that helped.

The lemonade boils down to this: 

We were able to reopen the webinar so that everyone on the waitlist will be able to get the video and other resources.

AND… 

Reopening the webinar also means that any of you who hadn’t signed up for the webinar can now register after the fact, and get all the stuff the regular attendees are getting. 

How about that for turning lemons into lemonade?

Click here to register for webinar video, presentation “deck,” and resources

Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Ken Howard · Tagged: congregational vitality assessment, Webinar

Aug 19 2021

FaithX and ECF help Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma implement groundbreaking Congregational Vitality Tracking Platform


“I am delighted to begin using the CVA [and the CVA Judicatory Platform] in Oklahoma. While much of the Christian life (individually and in community) cannot be measured, there are many indicators of vitality that can be. More vitality in congregations means more lives that can be transformed by God’s grace.”     

– The Rt. Rev. Poulson Reed, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma


The Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma has been the site of many firsts for the FaithX Project and our partners. 

In late 2017, the Diocese was one of a group of five judicatories that agreed to assist FaithX in beta-testing MapDash for Faith Communities as part of our collaboration with our affiliate Datastory to develop a first-of-its-kind online, interactive, map-based demographic and analytic platform.

In late 2020, they became the first of several judicatories to ask FaithX and our partner the Episcopal Church Foundation if we would consider developing a congregational vitality tracking platform that would allow judicatories to administer our Congregational Vitality Assessment diagnostic survey directly to their congregations, add judicatory-specific informational questions, receive anonymized survey results, track vitality and sustainability year-to-year, target their parochial interventions, and supplement their parochial reporting data with forward-looking diagnostics and recommendations. We love a good challenge, so we took them up on it.

Over the first half of 2021, Diocesan Director of Faith Formation and Discipleship Kate Carney Bond, along with other Diocesan staff worked closely with FaithX and our CVA partner, the Episcopal Church Foundation develop the platform: first by providing input for our prototype, then by providing feedback over several design iterations, and finally by beta testing in the month prior to our August 4 launch. In doing so, they also became the first judicatory to subscribe to the platform and take advantage of our $1,000 early-adopter custom setup discount.

And now the Diocese of Oklahoma has become the first of what we hope will be many to fully implement the Congregational Vitality Assessment Judicatory Platform. And the above quote from the Bishop of Oklahoma gives you a sense of how valuable they are finding this groundbreaking tool.

We will keep our readers apprised as additional judicatories come on board.

Meanwhile, visit CVAtool.org or email cva@CVAtool.org for more info about the CVA 2.0 diagnostic tool or CVA Judicatory Platform.

Or click here to register for our free webinar

Written by Ken Howard · Categorized: FaithX Blog, Posts by Ken Howard · Tagged: congregational vitality assessment, CVA, CVA-JV, Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, Judicatory Dashboard, Kate Carney Bond, MapDash for Faith Communities, The Rt. Rev. Poulson Reed, Webinar

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