• The survey results pinpoint, in everyday terms, areas where your church needs to growth

• The team-based suite of result guides harness the energy for change, utilizing different kinds of people in your church

• Starting after the very first result meeting, the process allows you to make important adjustments while church life continues on

• NCD focuses on progress and not position, thereby making your church’s starting place unimportant

• Progress on the health of your church does not necessarily require everyone to be on board from the start

• The NCD process is directed at helping your church to experience God more fully

• For more than a decade, thousands of churches in over 70 countries have experienced transformation through NCD. This should give you confidence that the NCD process is not merely a gimmick, but genuinely works!

• The recommended number of surveys to collect is 30, but more may be submitted, if you like

• Survey respondents should:

• Have some form of regular task in the church• Be involved in some form of small group within the church• Regularly attend church worship services• Collectively represent the demographics in your church (e.g. age, gender, race, etc.)

• If your congregations have the same demographic, same leadership, and same worship style, you can select your sample across the congregations• If your congregations are different, you should order a separate survey for each so that the results and subsequent affirmation and responsibility does not become “blurred"• If finances are a challenge, select the congregation that is most ready to move forward and survey it as a pilot of the process. Once the benefits of the process can be seen, it will become much easier to justify the cost of surveying additional congregations. (Note: The annual survey costs the same or less than the average church's coffee budget with little health improvement required to recoup the costs through improved giving.)

• Shortly after ordering your survey, you will be contacted by an NCD team member who will set up your survey account, help you get started, and answer any initial questions you may have. Then, you can initiate your survey right away. Results can be generated as soon as all of your participants have responded. If this is your first survey, you will be sent your free copy of the Color Your World with NCD book as soon as your results have been processed.