Agencies & Specialized Ministries

Internet ministries have increased the ability to reach people in regions otherwise closed to the gospel. Thanks to your support, BTGMI Internet, radio, television, telephone, and print ministries continue to evangelize and disciple people worldwide through:

• Programming on 1,600 national and international radio stations
• Internet support ministries in nine languages to help seekers dig deeper into the Christian faith
• Christian television programs in three languages on 130 stations worldwide
• Children’s programming in seven languages, using many different media tools
• Bible study courses in three languages that have helped disciple tens of thousands of people worldwide
• The annual publication and global distribution of more than 4 million devotional booklets.

Calvin graduates serve around the world as skilled and visionary leaders in God’s kingdom, while each year more than 4,200 students from all parts of the globe come to campus to partake in a comprehensive Christian liberal arts curriculum that offers 100 majors and areas of study.

Calvin students, whatever their field of study, are being prepared to join the college’s more than 50,000 alumni making a difference in God’s world. In the words of the Calvin mission statement: “Through our learning, we seek to be agents of renewal in the academy, church, and society. We pledge fidelity to Jesus Christ, offering our hearts and lives to do God’s work in God’s world.”

In addition to training pastors, the seminary trains people as evangelists, church planters, ministers of education, youth pastors, and other specialized ministries not requiring ordination. Calvin seminary also prepares people to teach or to give advanced leadership in our own denomination and in churches, seminaries, colleges, and Bible schools around the world.

Calvin Theological Seminary offers many continuing education programs for pastors and other ministry leaders. Many of these programs are offered on our campus, but many are also available regionally in the United States and Canada. The seminary’s website also contains excellent resources for pastors and other church leaders.

Home Missions works in partnership with classes and congregations to support educational ministries, help churches to become more mission-focused, encourage church planting, train leaders, and promote spiritual growth through prayer and small groups such as Coffee Break.

Home Missions:

• focuses Christian Reformed congregations on God’s mission in North America
• helps congregations and classes plant new churches 
• supports and encourages campus ministries and mission schools
• identifies and trains leaders for outreach and discipleship
• encourages the development of small groups and local prayer initiatives

World Missions helps CRC congregations in North America to vigorously participate in mission with churches and other Christian organizations throughout the world.

Almost 250 missionaries serve in more than 20 countries through and with World Missions. World Missions also works with partners around the world, helping to bridge cultural gaps and to extend Christ’s kingdom.

Through its Summer Missions Program, it sends CRC youth to experience missions in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

CRWRC also serves as your resource for volunteer opportunities, advocacy ideas, and educational materials about hunger, poverty, community development and justice.

CRWRC works in North America to help restore communities that have been seriously affected by disasters, and to help churches and individuals recognize the importance of living justice and loving mercy. It seeks to build a world where people work together to carry out acts of justice and mercy within their own community and around the world.

Faith Alive publishes resources for children and youth ministries, small groups, leadership, worship, prayer, evangelism, special needs, and more. It also publishes The Banner, Reformed Worship, an extensive line of Spanish books (under the imprint Libros Desafio) and books in other languages.

More than half of Faith Alive’s sales are to churches outside the CRC, enabling it to produce more products in more categories than would otherwise be possible.

• Faith Alive develops and produces church school curriculum and other study materials for people of all ages, as well as resources for worship and leadership.
• World Literature Ministries coordinates the publishing and distribution of biblically based Christian literature in several major languages.
• The Banner, the monthly magazine of the Christian Reformed Church, is sent to every CRC home free of charge, supported by ministry shares and by gifts.