Learn about one woman’s experiences working with Cohort Central America, a program that brings together young adults from Latin America and North America to live in community, serve in a grassroots ministry, and engage in deep spiritual formation.
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.
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ReFrame Ministries’ Kids Corner hosts are kids themselves.
- February 21, 2024| |READ MORE
World-changers from every generation live and work among us. Here are a few young people we’ve seen do interesting and inspiring things for God’s kingdom.
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Each Tuesday, the Calvin Theological Seminary community gathers for Public Reading of Scripture.
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“I can’t go to church, but I want to worship.”
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“They were determined to make the road better for God’s people, and the rains could not stop them.”
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Here are a few highlights from the 2023 survey related to spiritual practices.
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When busyness is worn as a badge of honor, the choice to seek rest can feel counterintuitive or even wasteful. Deep rest requires intentionality, self-compassion, and practice—lots of practice.
- January 31, 2024| |READ MORE
If Jesus walked among us today, I know he would have a bench, or at least a retreat spot.
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Christian leadership requires living out a life of service throughout the week, not just on Sundays.
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Beginning in the summer of 2024, Calvin University will pilot a free academic transition program called Wayfinder in the 49507 area.
- January 17, 2024| |READ MORE
Gratitude is the primary and default posture of serving in God’s kingdom. But that doesn’t mean it will be easy.
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“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.”
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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| |READ MORE
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| |READ MORE
Advent teaches us that the fullness of time is a pretty good thing.
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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!
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Even in the midst of fleeing during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ministry can still happen.
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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.
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Tensions and fears in India have been growing for many years now.
- November 1, 2023| |READ MORE
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.
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Resources to help alleviate poverty in your community.
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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.
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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.