Explore Your Calling 2021 (Virtual Gathering for Pastors)
On January 26 to 27 and February 9 to 10, Pastor Church Resources will host a workshop for pastors who are asking questions about their calling.
This is a public forum to share ideas, ask questions, and reflect on being a pastor in the CRC.
On January 26 to 27 and February 9 to 10, Pastor Church Resources will host a workshop for pastors who are asking questions about their calling.
Financial Shalom offers opportunities and resources for your financial well-being as a pastor, including webinars and a funded Fellowship for bivocational pastors.
The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
Wouldn’t it be nice to take some time for your learning and growth over the winter? To set yourself up for that possibility a season from now, consider applying for Continuing Education grant soon.
The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
Financial Shalom is a CRCNA program designed to improve the financial well-being of all the CRCNA’s pastors and churches. Learn more about available resources!
Designed to equip churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment, the Crossroads Discernment Toolkit was birthed out of a unique collaboration between Resonate Global Mission and the CRCNA's Pastor Church Resources.
Wise leaders understand that complaints are often values statements in disguise.
COVID-19 brings special challenges to pastors. Here's how pastors can take care of themselves while trying to face them.
Here are some ways for you to find equipping and encouragement as you lead your church through a difficult environment.
Join us for a one day seminar with Ruth Haley Barton as we explore how you can experience God's care for your own soul.
Calling all CRC Pastors and Commissioned Pastors! We'd love for you to come to the Refreshed for the Call conference this fall. Relevant discussions, refreshing setting, and nominal cost.
The format of this training tool has been intentionally designed for you, the reader. Our intent is that this training tool may help lead you into rich conversation as you seek and acknowledge the guiding presence of God.
This training tool is intended to help church leaders have a fruitful conversation about evaluation in their local setting and to strengthen the local church by blessing its staff with timely, effective feedback.
Join us for a 1-hour roundtable exploring how the experience of dementia can be faith-formative, and for discussion on ministering to the person, the family, and the congregation.
When you become a minister in the CRC, whether through ordination or transfer, we want you to travel through your first five years of ministry with an experienced minister at your side. Here is a ministry description for that relationship.
Peer Learning Grants enable CRC pastors to gather for support, learning, encouragement and prayer over a period of about a year. If you're looking to foster health in your ministry, life and relationships and nurture your wellbeing, check out the application form and overview document.
These Continuing Education pages are organized by the Five Callings that the CRC has adopted and are designed to assist pastors and councils make plans for ongoing learning.
If you're looking to nurture your life with God, check out the Pastors' Spiritual Vitality Toolkit.
Being a pastor's wife isn't easy. The Clergy Care Network for Pastors' Wives has resources that will inspire, comfort, and strengthen.
In this insightful article, Laurie Carnright Edwards reflects on the “unexpected blessings” of her role as a pastor’s wife — a role she once swore she’d never have.
Be encouraged by the stories of three pastors' wives who share a common bond in the joys and challenges of being married to a pastor.
This is a practical tool for mentors (experienced pastors) and mentees (pastors new to ministry). It covers a wide variety of topics which pastors will generally encounter during their first several years of ministry. Each module/topic has discussion questions and a resource list.
Churches have a variety of leaders that are doing their best to use their leadership gifts to further the kingdom. This training tool focuses on leadership in the local church. Biblical, theological, and practical information is presented in a user-friendly format.