Christian leadership requires living out a life of service throughout the week, not just on Sundays.
Our Shared Ministry
Our Shared Ministry is a place to hear, discuss, and celebrate the ministry that we, as the Christian Reformed Church, are involved in across North America and around the world.
Beginning in the summer of 2024, Calvin University will pilot a free academic transition program called Wayfinder in the 49507 area.
- January 17, 2024| |
Gratitude is the primary and default posture of serving in God’s kingdom. But that doesn’t mean it will be easy.
“Probably the most difficult thing in my role is to decenter myself and to find the center in the other person and in God's work in them.”
After a tragic incident sent shockwaves through the Chinese-speaking community in North Carolina, ReFrame Ministries’ Chinese ministry team stepped in for support.
- December 27, 2023| |
Over our nearly 170-year history as a denomination, we’ve started several ministries to help us follow God’s call and serve as God’s ambassadors in the world. For those who want to know more—and those who sometimes forget which ministry does what—here is a helpful guide.
- December 20, 2023| |
Advent teaches us that the fullness of time is a pretty good thing.
I wanted to tell you about my son, Elijah. He's 18 now and he has autism as well as Dandy-Walker syndrome. He recently made profession of faith at our church!
Even in the midst of fleeing during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ministry can still happen.
One of the first steps to exploring what it means to be a Christian in your community is learning how to discover where God is already at work. Going for walks can help you make that discovery and can help you connect with people and join what God is doing.
Tensions and fears in India have been growing for many years now.
- November 1, 2023| |
Jesus taught us to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.” It can be hard to grasp the depth of that prayer, however, when many of us are insulated from the precariousness of life.
Resources to help alleviate poverty in your community.
Growing crops and feeding communities is becoming more difficult in Uganda. That’s why Resonate Global Mission missionary Sara Sytsma took a group of young people to visit a farm and learn new growing techniques.
The tragedy of food waste is what motivated Calvin University student Katarina Woldt to join and help lead the university’s local chapter of the Food Recovery Network several years ago.
Global food security is an ongoing issue that has become more complex with climate instability and COVID-19. World Renew offers hungry people opportunities to meet their needs sustainably.
With guns at the ready, men in military uniforms were running through his family’s compound in South Sudan.
Despite Rajan’s high status and material success, his actions left him feeling spiritually exhausted and even afraid.
This simple concept of shalom as “the way things ought to be” has given me a lot of personal satisfaction in the work we have done on our home.
Without enough rain, her crops were failing—and her much-needed income was diminishing.
In response to the cultural mandate, Calvin has been committed to interdisciplinary sustainability work for a half century.
Four Christian Reformed congregations and one Reformed Church in America church committed to working together over a 13-month period to make their churches more welcoming and accessible for people with disabilities.
Out of this inquiry came an event where young adults were called in as the experts to share about their lives.
- August 23, 2023| |
What lies behind wisdom most fundamentally is an orientation to learning.