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Seminary's Renewal Lab Up and Running

September 17, 2014

The Congregational Renewal Learning Laboratory (The Renewal Lab) is one of Calvin Seminary's most recent commitments to come alongside congregations and their leaders to strengthen them in fulfilling their call to be God's redeeming presence in their local communities.

The Renewal Lab is a two-year renewal journey providing: eight quarterly renewal courses, a peer-learning environment, congregational involvement, coaching, team development, accountability, and trained interns.

Presently, 21 churches in the West Michigan area are part of the first two cohorts of Renewal Lab congregations.

The Lord willing, say seminary officials, a third Great Lakes cohort will launch in June 2015 along with several pilot cohorts throughout North America.

One Renewal Lab pastor, Bob Huiseman, of Immanuel CRC in Hudsonville, said that "God is using the Renewal Lab as the single most influential planning process in our church's history."

Additional information is available by contacting the coordinator of the Renewal Lab, Keith Doornbos, at [email protected] or the director of the Institute for Global Church Planting and Renewal, Carl Bosma, at [email protected]