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A service plan for October leading up to Reformation Day focused on the authority of Scripture as a guide for believing and living in a four-week series on truths from the Reformation.

To encourage spiritual and emotional healing among congregations and clergy by educating church leaders in trauma-informed worship, pastoral care, and other ministry practices.

To conduct fieldwork exploring the use of pilgrimage, movement, and the arts in worship as means of healing trauma and encouraging spiritual integration (knowing God with both our heads and our hearts).

To promote healing through worship by connecting three military congregations to engage together with Scripture, song and prayer focused on spiritual wellness.

To develop a worship experience for people who feel excluded from church worship experiences due to their mental health issues and to equip local congregations to receive and minister to them.

Calvin Theological Seminary, in collaboration with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, is pleased to offer a series of online courses that are designed to support your ministry leadership amidst the ongoing pandemic.

The workshop is designed for churches and religious leaders to learn how to successfully launch or grow a multicultural worship experience.

To facilitate healing of emotional wounds through creating a safe, reflective, and artistic space for biblical reflection, prayer, and the reframing of personal stories through the truths of scripture. 

To promote racial healing and to become a more multiethnic, multicultural, and multigenerational congregation by developing multicultural worship expressions and learning activities. 

Jeremy Simpson describes himself as a theologian and culture maker who believes that Christian communities should be a foretaste of the reconciled “kin-dom” of God. He is a pastor, musician, speaker, consultant, and strategist who brings more than twenty years of ministry and nonprofit experience to his role as director of the Office of Diversity and Belonging for the Reformed Church in America. He previously served as supervisor of race relations and advocacy.