NCD Seminar

Highfield Baptist Church (Moncton, NB) hosted Christian Schwarz, president and founder of the Institute for Natural Church Development (NCD International) on November 16, 2009. This was his seventh stop on a nine city tour of North America and only one of three stops in Canada. It is interesting to note that the Moncton seminar boasted the largest attendance of any other location in North America. In total, there were 226 people in attendance from 130 churches of varying denominations. As a Convention, we were well represented with 173 participants from 98 CABC churches - approximately 76%.

For more than twenty years, Christian has been developing and implementing the principles of NCD around the world. Based on research from more than 40,000 churches on all in 70 countries, NCD has helped churches recognize their needs and strengths, and offers solutions that assist in church growth. Through our Regional Ministers, NCD is being used in many of our CABC churches.

The seminar focussed on the new book by Christian entitled, “The 3 Colors of Your Spirituality”. This is the third in a series of eight books that unravel each of the principles found in NCD. In the book, participants are led in a discussion about their spiritual style how that fits who you are and how you experience God. Further to that, you are able to see others' spiritual styles and appreciate the different ways that they experience God.

For more information about this book or NCD, contact your Regional Minister. And click here to listen to our latest podcast featuring a conversation with Christian Schwarz, Dr. Malcolm Beckett, Rev. Jerry Horsman and Dr. John Weiler.