It’s Friday night at Casa Adobe, a ministry house in Costa Rica, and the loudest chess club ever is meeting.
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.
The launch of the digital Forum will make many of these resources more readily available and accessible.
- November 27, 2024| |
It is clear from Ezekiel’s prophecies that his biggest concern wasn’t his own situation.
In Engineering 333 at Calvin University, students spend the entire semester answering a single question.
During Advent, the Today devotionals offered by ReFrame Ministries explore the theme of light breaking through darkness.
One of World Renew’s local partners in West Africa started sharing information through radio broadcasts focused on food security, income generation, and health.
- November 6, 2024| |
I’m both captivated and confused by Jesus’ parable of the mustard seed.
The Table is a unique urban farm and faith community working in neighborhoods across South Denver.
A group of 14 volunteers from Almond Valley CRC in Ripon, Calif., caravanned 900 miles to a Navajo reservation in New Mexico to help a fellow CRC in need.
World Renew works to end hunger globally by offering opportunities to farmers and families to grow healthy food.
Timothy Leadership Training gives pastors and leaders the tools they need to overcome challenges and meet needs.
As you think about retiring, you would be wise to take time regularly to sit back and reflect on your ministry career, your identity, and your hopes for the future.
The work of World Renew can seem distant and unclear to those of us who haven’t spent time in the midst of it, but opportunities abound to literally get our hands dirty.
The Loan Fund experienced a sharp decline in loan requests in 2021 due in part to COVID, and it remained without a director for two years.
- October 2, 2024| |
Like our gardens and houseplants, the church is also vibrant and fragile.
The Christian Reformed Church in North America has four agencies, two educational institutions, and three uniquely Canadian ministries that provide resources and host events.
Because of violence from extremist terrorist groups in his home village, Omar fled to the city of Kaya.
As we look at the ministries of the Christian Reformed Church, we see renewal happening in countless ways at multiple levels.
This call is not about assigning blame, but rather about acknowledging our shared responsibility to heal and restore.
Despite a pervasive sense of hopelessness in his community, Mayan community leader Diego Alberto Catinac Guarchaj is full of hope for a better future—and not just for himself.
Today, Thrive supports more than 200 ministry leaders or churches each year in matters related to abuse awareness, prevention, and response.
“I came to the Middle East having experienced quite a lot of loss. … I had a lot of healing to do—spiritually, emotionally, physically,”
Since assuming leadership of the Latino/a Ministry Program, Mariano Tijerina-Pike has concentrated on providing a flexible format, contextualizing Reformed theology for diverse ministry contexts, and developing local and global partnerships.
Across Canada, steps toward repairing broken relationships between Indigenous people and settlers are being taken.