Explore how your unique gifts intersect with the life of the church.
The Ministry Leadership cohort is a learning and discerning community, helping first and second-year students to understand their leadership in the Church. Walk alongside peers asking the same questions, guided by student mentors through small groups and by faculty through classes.
Program values
- Build Community: as unique members of the one body of Jesus Christ.
- Practice Leadership: using the particular gifts and in the particular ways God has given to you.
- Love the Church: as it is in Grand Rapids, this nation, and spread throughout the world.
As a member of the Ministry Leadership Cohort you will:
- Form strong connections with your peers by taking classes together, engaging in weekly small groups, visiting churches, and going on pilgrimage.聽
- Learn with and from professors and students whose worship, experience, and witness of God will challenge and develop your own.聽
- Travel to a major American city and learn what God is doing in the radically diverse churches of a specific urban area, stretching your understanding of the work of Christ through the Church.聽
- Discern how God is and will continue to use you in his Church through engagement with peers, professors teaching classes on worship and the Church, and leaders in ministry.聽
General Overview
Program Value | Year 1 | Year 2 |
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Build community |
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Practice leadership |
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Love the church |
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Bring it All Together
- Spring break pilgrimage
- Summer internship course
- On-campus leadership opportunities
- Option to complete the Ministry Leadership minor with a few additional courses
Who qualifies?
- Students from any major who are admitted to Calvin.聽
- Students starting at Calvin in Fall of 2026.聽
Next Steps
Follow the steps below and email cohorts@calvin.edu with any questions.
If you are starting in Fall 2026:
If you haven't already, you must first apply and be admitted to Calvin.
Once you are admitted to Calvin:
Once you are admitted, you can apply to the Ministry Leadership Cohort.
If you are starting after 2026:
Please send us your information using the form at the end of this page, and we'll invite you to apply when the application is open to you.