Topics: Open Doors New Futures
The characteristics of congregational health identified in this document have been developed to help build a shared vision across the Episcopal Church in our time. Experience has taught that the practices laid out here foster a common language of development. They are consistent and reliable marks of vitality across churches, regions and ministries, and are dependent neither on financial resources, nor on geography, nor on a congregation’s size. An individual congregation need not carry out all of these practices in order to show vitality, but a vital congregation will always carry out at least some of those described in each section.