The
Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) has announced that
Redeemer University College will be home for Synod, the denomination’s annual assembly, in 2012. Ancaster Christian Reformed Church will be the host congregation for the week-long session, which will meet from June 9 – 16.
Doreen Gringhuis, Redeemer’s Director of Campus Services, has worked with the CRCNA’s Synod Office on securing Redeemer as the venue for Synod: “Campus Services staff is excited about working with the CRCNA and is confident that Synod 2012 will be a successful experience for the delegates and guests.” More than 185 delegates, along with 21 advisors and about 50 staff and committee representatives took part in this year’s Synod at Trinity Christian College in Chicago, IL. Several hundred guests are also expected over the course of the event.
Most of Synod’s deliberations will take place in Redeemer’s Auditorium. Breakout sessions and meetings will be held in the classrooms, and delegates will be housed in Redeemer’s townhouse-style residences and fed in the campus dining halls.
Redeemer was the venue for Synod in 1999, and is pleased to be able to welcome the CRCNA back to campus. “There is a very strong relationship between Redeemer and the CRCNA,” notes Dr. Hubert Krygsman, Redeemer’s president. “We are grateful for the opportunity to serve the denomination in this way, and we look forward to sharing with delegates all that south western Ontario, and Redeemer, has to offer.”
Redeemer welcomes a number of church groups each year to its camps for retreats and conferences. In 2007, more than 650 delegates of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students spent two weeks on campus for their quadrennial World Assembly.