CHURCH STRATEGIC PLANNING SOFTWARE
The Healthy Churches Toolkit
Software your leadership team uses to measure church health, build a strategic plan and develop leaders. A certified Guide can coach your team through each step.
Plans start at $499 a year, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can also start with the $99 Church Ministry Analysis, which includes three months of the Toolkit.
Plans Are Hard to Keep in Front of a Team
A planning retreat produces good decisions. Keeping them in front of your team for a year is harder. Notes end up in shared folders, goals lose their owners, and Sunday takes most of the week. Meanwhile you need more leaders and have no clear way to develop them. The Toolkit keeps your plan, your leaders and your health results where your whole team can see them every week.
WHO IT IS FOR
Who the Toolkit Is For
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Pastors who want a plan the staff uses
Your church has a mission statement, but the calendar, the budget and staff meetings are not tied to it.
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Churches that need more leaders
You keep asking the same few people to lead and want a clear way to find and develop new ones.
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Leadership teams that want an honest read on church health
You want to know how your church is doing in more areas than attendance and giving.
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Churches working with a Guide
Your Guide uses the Toolkit to coach your team between meetings and see the same plan you do.
The Toolkit does not handle check-in, giving or member records. Most churches keep using their church management software for those.
HOW IT WORKS
How Churches Use the Toolkit
These are the four steps a church works through in the Toolkit, usually with a Guide coaching the team.
- Step 1Measure your church health
Your congregation takes the Church Ministry Analysis survey. You get scores in six areas: mission, values, discipleship, vision, strategy and leadership.
- Step 2Build your strategic plan
Write your mission, core values, discipleship pathway and vision. Then set one-year goals and strategy projects with owners and due dates.
- Step 3Map your leadership pipeline
List every leadership role across five levels, define what each role requires and set a coaching and review schedule for each leader.
- Step 4Review progress as a team
Work through goals and projects in your staff meetings. Retake the analysis each year to see what changed.
INSIDE THE TOOLKIT
What Your Team Sees
Church health scores
When your survey closes, the Toolkit shows an overall health score and a score for each of the six areas. Your Guide goes over the results with your leadership team so you can decide where to focus first.
Your strategic plan
Your mission, values, discipleship pathway, vision and goals live in one plan report your staff can open at any time. Progress on each goal updates as projects are completed.
FEATURES
What's in the Toolkit
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Strategic Plan Dashboard
Your mission, core values, discipleship pathway, vision, one-year goals, and strategy projects, with owners and due dates.
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Leadership Pipeline
Every leadership role across five levels, with role descriptions, required competencies, and a coaching and review schedule for each leader.
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Church Ministry Analysis
Survey your congregation and see your scores in six areas of church health, compared year to year.
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Coaching With Your Guide
Your Guide sees the same plan you do. The Plus plan includes unlimited one-on-one coaching for the account owner.
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Sermon and Communication Tools
AI tools that turn a sermon into discussion questions, social posts, and other resources for your church.
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Training Library
Video courses for your leaders on strategic envisioning, leadership pipeline, and board leadership.
Your Whole Team Works From the Same Plan
On the Plus plan, add your staff and key volunteers at no extra cost. The account owner sets what each person can see and edit, and everyone works from the same goals.
WHO BUILT IT
Built by The Malphurs Group
The Toolkit runs the same Strategic Envisioning and Leadership Pipeline processes The Malphurs Group uses with churches. Both draw on the work of Dr. Aubrey Malphurs, who has written more than 20 books on church leadership.
The Malphurs Group is a nonprofit led by Scott Ball and A.J. Mathieu. Our certified Guides use these same processes when they coach churches.
As our church has grown, the biggest challenge has been developing leaders. The Leadership Pipeline Design process put us on the road for success to develop, train, and launch more leaders than ever before.Tim Jones, Executive Pastor, North Webster Church of God
Pricing
There are two plans, and each one covers your whole church.
Basic
$499
per year, or $50.39 a month
Training and resources for your leaders.
- Strategic Envisioning, Leadership Pipeline, and Board Training courses
- Resource library downloads
- Live workshops
- Notes
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Plus
$999
per year, or $99 a month
Everything in Basic, and the tools your team uses to run its plan.
- Strategic plan dashboard
- Leadership pipeline tools
- Church Ministry Analysis reports
- Meeting agendas
- AI sermon and communication tools
- Social posts and a content calendar
- Unlimited team accounts
- Unlimited one-on-one coaching for the account owner
Every paid plan starts with a 7-day trial and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Part of a network or denomination? Ask us about network pricing.
Common Questions
How much does the Healthy Churches Toolkit cost?
The Basic plan is $499 a year or $50.39 a month. The Plus plan, which adds the planning, pipeline, and church health tools, is $999 a year or $99 a month. Both plans start with a 7-day trial.
What's the difference between Basic and Plus?
Basic gives your leaders the training courses, the resource library and live workshops. Plus adds the tools your team works in each week: the strategic plan dashboard, the leadership pipeline, Church Ministry Analysis reports, meeting agendas, sermon and communication tools, unlimited team accounts and coaching for the account owner.
How does the trial work?
Choose a plan and try it with your team for 7 days. If you keep it, you also have a 30-day money-back guarantee.
What is a Guide?
A Guide is a ministry leader trained and certified by The Malphurs Group to coach churches through church health, strategic planning and leadership development. Guides work with your team inside the Toolkit.
Does the Toolkit replace our church management software?
No. It does not handle check-in, giving or member records. Most churches use it alongside the church management software they already have.
Do we need a Guide to use the Toolkit?
No. Churches can subscribe on their own. Most churches get more from it with a Guide, who helps set up the plan and coaches the team.
How does the Church Ministry Analysis connect to the Toolkit?
The $99 Church Ministry Analysis runs inside the Toolkit and includes three months of access. Your results stay in your account, so you can compare them year to year.
Who on our team can use it?
On the Plus plan, your whole team can. The account owner adds staff and volunteers and sets what each person can see and edit.
Is the Toolkit available outside North America?
Yes. Through Healthy Churches Global, our nonprofit international arm, churches outside North America receive Toolkit access at no cost.
Try the Toolkit With Your Team
Start a 7-day trial, add your staff and see how it fits the way you lead. If you would rather begin with an assessment, the $99 Church Ministry Analysis includes three months of the Toolkit.