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What You'll Learn

Explore Your Leadership in 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.
• Learn with and from professors and students whose worship, experience, and witness of God will challenge and develop your own.
• 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.
• 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.

Who Qualifies?

• Students who will start at Calvin in Fall of 2026
• Students from any major who are passionate about ministry and the life of the Church.
• Anyone eager to serve in faith-based leadership roles.

If you are interested in starting at Calvin after 2026, please send us your information (see form below) and we'll let you know once your Cohorts application is open. Email cohorts@calvin.edu with questions.

Important Dates

Application opens on August 1. The deadline to apply is January 15. Find all dates and deadlines below!

Apply to the Ministry Leadership Cohort

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