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Serving leaders.
Renewing churches.
The Center for Church Renewal walks with congregations as they rediscover their calling, grow as disciples, and serve their neighborhoods. Explore practical support for your church’s next chapter.
A renewed church. A renewed sense of mission.
Church Renewal
A future worth praying for
Help your church take its next faithful step.
Renewal begins with people who are willing to listen. The Center for Church Renewal equips church leaders across North America with training, tools, and relationships that help congregations reconnect with their gospel mission.
The ministry grew out of the Church Renewal Lab at Calvin Theological Seminary in 2013. Its work brings spiritual formation and practical leadership together, with the aim of making disciples and strengthening the communities churches serve.
Whether your congregation needs a fresh sense of direction, support for its leaders, or help discerning a difficult transition, there is a place to begin. The Center offers several paths for churches at different stages of their journey.
How it works
Listen. Imagine. Do.
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Listen
Make room for prayer, Scripture, and honest conversation. Listen to your congregation and the neighborhood around you.
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Imagine
Discern a shared picture of the church God is calling you to become. Connect that vision with your community’s needs.
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Do
Turn that shared direction into faithful action. Learn together, strengthen ministry, and keep making disciples.
Rooted in Christ. Oriented toward mission.
Four essentials for renewal.
Abiding
Root the work in life with Christ.
Vision
Discern a shared direction for mission.
Leadership
Equip people to guide the journey.
Health
Strengthen the life of the congregation.
Renewal opportunities
A pathway for your church’s next chapter.
Explore the Center’s core programs and connect with the team about the support that fits your congregation.
Church Renewal Lab
An 18-month experience that brings church teams into a learning community. Cohorts, coaching, and practical work help congregations develop a clearer mission and put it into practice.
Explore the Renewal LabRenewal Coaching
Work with a coach on leadership growth, discipleship, ministry teams, neighborhood understanding, or vision. Support can focus on the particular questions and challenges your church is facing.
Explore coachingRenewal Legacy Project
Receive guidance when a congregation is considering its final chapter. The process helps churches discern their future, care for people, honor their history, and consider how their resources can bless ministry beyond them.
Explore the Legacy ProjectTools, learning, and connection
Support for the wider renewal journey.
Find the complete resources and current participation details on the Center for Church Renewal website.
Assessments
Begin with a clearer understanding of your congregation. The Center offers a free church health assessment, along with tools for pastoral development, vitality, and leadership feedback.
Find an assessmentClassis Renewal
Help regional groups of churches reflect on their shared mission, relationships, leadership, and capacity to serve together.
Explore regional renewalDoctor of Ministry
Explore doctoral study in church renewal through the Center’s partnership with Western Theological Seminary, connecting theological reflection with ministry in the local church.
Explore doctoral study222Disciple
Explore the disciple-making resource featured among the Center’s renewal opportunities.
Explore 222DiscipleFresh Ideas
Browse the Center’s articles and resources for church leaders seeking practical encouragement along the way.
Read Fresh IdeasMeet the Center
Learn about the ministry’s team, values, and partners, or start a conversation about your congregation.
Meet the teamStories of multiplication
Real churches. New chapters.
Hear the church stories shared on churchrenew.org: a new beginning at Bethel, renewed mission at Sunrise, and spiritual renewal at Park Lane.
The next step is yours
What could renewal look like in your church?
Start with an assessment, explore a renewal pathway, or help make this ministry available to more congregations. To talk with the Center’s team, visit churchrenew.org/contact.