A hospital chaplain vividly remembers the fear, disorientation, and confusion she and others felt as the hospital shifted to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today, diverse congregations are becoming more and more commonplace in the Christian Reformed Church.

Years in the making, the program launched in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the fall of 2020 as students tuned in online.

A glimpse of CRC congregations and agencies working toward this goal

CARD: Today, as people move throughout the world and various cultures collide, the denomination has an opportunity to worship God and seek God’s shalom together as a diverse family of Christ.

Orland Park CRC has collaborated with World Renew DRS for over a dozen years, specializing in “whole-house build” projects in several disaster-affected locations. 

We need to seek out people and, by a process of mutual engagement, release the spark placed in them through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible is filled with stories of men and women of all ages and from unexpected places who are used by God as part of God’s big plan.

For the first time, Disability Concerns took the training online and opened it to anyone connected to the ministry.

Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung spoke at the 2021 January Series: “Sin is not a game,” she said, “and deep down we know it.”

The Centre for Public Dialogue in Ottawa, Ont., offers young people an opportunity that goes two ways.

Let’s commit to building some discipline into our prayer and spiritual lives this year.

“In (Uganda), where the false prosperity gospel is usually taken for granted as truth, many Christians don’t know how to think about suffering in their lives, especially sickness and poverty.”

Without realizing it, Quésia had formed a new spiritual habit.

In spiritual direction, the director “gives 100 percent of their attention to listening along with you to what the Spirit is saying.”

Brooks and Emerson each believed that bringing their two churches together could help bring down that division.

Here are a few examples of Christian Reformed churches, members, and pastors who are already deepening their spiritual practices in transformative and life-giving ways.

The Bridge App was originally designed to give churches new ways to connect. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, the app has become helpful in ways that weren’t anticipated.

Over the course of two nights, Lief presented two talks: “Immigration, Human Dignity, and the Image of God” and “Love God, Honor the Emperor.”

Established 50 years ago, the Committee for Contact with the Government was shaped by congregations out of a conviction that the Christian Reformed Church had a calling to interact with Canadian society and governments.

Experts suggest that loaded language can make us react to emotional stimuli instead of taking the time to fully read and understand what has been said.

Seekers and believers are able to have conversations about life’s most pressing issues and work together to explore answers to questions.

Imagine what the church would look like if we were able to put aside our political and theological differences and instead develop a common language based on our shared identity in Christ.

It is possible the in-person Inspire 2021 gathering could be postponed or canceled because of COVID-19.