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After completing the NCLS, churches receive a Church Life Profile showing their church's unique results, along with supporting resources including a Workbook, Enriching Church Life ebook and more. They can all be accessed online.
A range of Church Life Profiles have been released in phases:
Phase 1: First release of results via the Summary Profile online.
Phase 2: Delivery of the full Church Life Profile online.
Phase 3: Postage of Church Life Pack of resources to churches including a printed copy of their full Church Life Profile.
Summary Profile
The Summary Profile is an 8 page report containing highlights of a church's results from the 2021 National Church Life Survey.
Presented in a dynamic, infographic style, it is easy to read and share with others. Each age and the entire Profile can be downloaded as a pdf document. The Profile Number can also be shared with others to enable them to view the Summary Profile online.
The Summary Profile includes:
- The people of this church
- Church attendance and background of attenders
- What people value and prioritise
- How people relate to God
- How people relate to each other
- How people relate to the wider community
- Vision, innovation and leadership culture
Download a Sample Summary Profile (pdf)
Church Life Profile
The Church Life Profile is an 28-36 page report containing a church's results from the 2021 National Church Life Survey.
It includes an evaluation of church health in 9 core qualities of church life and 3 attendance measures. It also includes changes over time and comparisons to benchmarks.
The Church Life Profile includes:
- Dashboard of Key highlights
- Summary Profile
- The people of this church
- Church attendance and background of attenders
- Internal core qualities: Faith, Worship and Belonging
- Outward core qualities: Service, Faith-sharing and Inclusion
- Inspirational core qualities: Vision, Innovation and Leadership Culture
- Child Survey results (if churches completed a Child Survey)
- Denominational Question results (if completed)
View your results and resources online via MyNCLS
Participating church leaders will receive an email with instructions to sign into MyNCLS using an approved email address. Once signed in you can view and share your Profile/s along with other resources including your Workbook, Enriching Church Life ebook and more.
More information on viewing and sharing online
Make the most of your results with the Workbook
Church Life Survey Workbook
To help churches to explore and apply their survey results, we provide a Church Life Survey Workbook. The Workbook includes ideas, tools, workshops and practical processes to evaluate your results, communicate any insights or plans, then take steps of action into the future together.