About 25 years ago, Christian Schwarz and Christoph Schalk, to Christian leaders in what was then West Germany, surveyed 1,000 churches across the globe and found that there are eight characteristics that differentiate healthy growing churches from those plateaued or in decline. Many think of the NCD paradigm as the Survey, but now it is much more than that. The Church Survey remains one of the core pillars of the NCD resources, and has been used well over 100,000 times in the ensuing decades. About 3,500 Surveys of these Surveys have been conducted in Canada, but churches in 45 denominations! In order to receive a Profile, that is, the set of reports detaining the Survey’s findings, about 30 church members fill in a detailed questionnaire. The NCD Church Survey is accessible online in English only. Paper copies of the Survey are available in dozens of languages and NCD Canada has experience working in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.