Renovaré Institute
Renovaré Institute Final Projects
Every Renovaré Institute student concludes the program with the submission of a final project. The only parameter for the project is that it has the potential to touch at least one hundred other people with some of the what the student has learned at the RI.
The projects are as delightful and unique as the students who create them. Enjoy perusing the Project Database!
Note: Alumni who are willing to be contacted by RI students (or fellow alum) will have email addresses listed with their entries.
Are you an alum who has not yet submitted your project to the database? Why not do that now?
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Book Proposal on Prayer
Book: Proposal • 2013-2015 - London • Tadd Kruithoff
Contact: [email protected]
A web-based book that integrates the spiritual formation concepts and practices of RSFI with some of the ideas and practices of third-wave behavioral therapies.
Book: Complete or In Process • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Randy Reimold
Contact: [email protected]
Trinity School of Transformation is a 501c3 three year program for adult Christian spiritual formation .
Curriculum: School • 2010-2012 - Denver • Jo Ann Panter
Contact: [email protected]
Seeds & Yeast: An Interactive Cookbook Through The Streams Of Living Water
Book: Proposal • 2013-2015 - London • Jessica Mycoskie
Contact: [email protected]
The Gift of Work: Spiritual Disciplines for the Workplace
Book: Complete or In Process • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Bill Heatley
Contact: [email protected]
Christian Spiritual Formation in the Christian School K-12 Classroom
Lecture Series • 2013-2015 - London • Deborah Lang
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual Formation Bible Study on Colossians
Bible Study • 2013-2015 - London • Deborah Lang
Contact: [email protected]
Life with God for Children: Spiritual Formation with the children in our midst
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2010-2012 - Denver • Lacy Finn Borgo
Contact: [email protected]
Money Lies - Exposing the Deceitfulness of Riches
Blog/Website Resources • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Anonymous Student
A program for spiritual mentoring for young leaders in our church.
Leadership/Mentoring • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Brad Houff
Contact: [email protected]
Modern take on desert spiritual formation - memoir, study, reflection.
Book: Complete or In Process • 2010-2012 - Denver • Marlena Graves
Contact: [email protected]
Online Spiritual Direction Training
Curriculum: School • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Jean Hoover
Contact: [email protected]
Two-day spiritual formation retreat for pastors to help nurture their intimacy with God.
Retreat Design • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Linda Gist
Contact: [email protected]
Saturdays Blog
Blog/Website Resources • 2013-2015 - London • Michelle van Vliet
Contact: [email protected]
"The Knowing God Better" course is a discipleship course based on the Apprenticeship series by James Bryan Smith
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2013-2015 - London • Ali Male
Contact: [email protected]
Introduction to the Streams Videos
Film • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Joe Davis
Contact: [email protected]
I created a Contemplative Garden in the woods behind my house.
Retreat Design • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Rebecca Preston
Contact: [email protected]
Relationship: Currency of the Kingdom. A book about relationship with God, self and other
Book: Complete or In Process • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Theressa McMorris
Contact: [email protected]
The With-God Life:A Way to Pray the Hours
Devotional/Journal/Prayer Resource • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Jan Klemick
Contact: [email protected]
Loving God with Your Mind: the Door to Transformation
Book: Proposal • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Deirdre LaNoue
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual Formation in the Workplace.
Book: Proposal • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Quinton Peeples
Contact: [email protected]
The life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Model for Spiritual Formation
Magazine or Journal Article/Series • 2010-2012 - Denver • Judy Brown
Contact: [email protected]
Powerpoint series on Spiritual Formation and Specific Disciplines
Lecture Series • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Dick Baxter
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual Formation
Curriculum: School • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Helen Edwards
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual Formation in the Kingdom of God
Retreat Design • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Helen Edwards
Contact: [email protected]
Sermons based on Renovation of the Heart
Sermon Series • 2013-2015 - London • Marv Norlien
Contact: [email protected]
Intentional relationships for spiritual formation
Leadership/Mentoring • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Dana Hawkes
Contact: [email protected]
Gateway to Godliness
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2010-2012 - Denver • Ralph Gjerde
Contact: [email protected]
The project is not an off-the-shelf, ready to use project. It is tailored to the specific situation.
Church Plant/Fellowship • 2010-2012 - Denver • Delia Realmo DeSoto
Contact: [email protected]
A.B.C.s of Spiritual Formation for Children
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2013-2015 - London • Melinda Griffith
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual Formation Workbook in jail
Curriculum: Prison • 2013-2015 - London • Hal Welch
Contact: [email protected]
A paper titled "Salvation is for Today"
Scholarly Paper • 2010-2012 - Denver • Ross Tatum
Contact: [email protected]
A three-year men's discipleship training group
Leadership/Mentoring • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Ron Matsuda
Contact: [email protected]
Small group spiritual formation for teenage women
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2010-2012 - Denver • Tisha Gillespie
Contact: [email protected]
A Year of Integrating Spiritual Formation Truths into Ministries At First Presbyterian Church: How would Jesus live and minister if he were a middle-age woman at First Pres.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2010-2012 - Denver • Shelley McBride
Contact: [email protected]
Translating the Good and Beautiful books to Arabic.
Book: Complete or In Process • 2010-2012 - Denver • Ihab Beblawi
Contact: [email protected]
Sabbath Year Travel
Book: Proposal • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Ville Kavilo
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual Formation Assessment Tool
Assessment Tool • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Tim Harben
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual formation as a discipleship process
Book: Complete or In Process • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Cecilia Yau
Contact: [email protected]
A seven month curriculum for practicing seven spiritual disciplines designed for use in a collegiate setting.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2010-2012 - Denver • Joe Moore
Contact: [email protected]
Leadership Development and Spiritual Formation
Sermon Series • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Candace Lansberry
Contact: [email protected]
Integrating the Renovaré themes within a whole church context.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Jeremy Peters
Contact: [email protected]
Unfolding the six streams of living water in a Lenten Series
Sermon Series • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Foster Dryden
Contact: [email protected]
Seriously? Is living in the Kingdom of God possible?
Sermon Series • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Roberta Mosier-Peterson
Contact: [email protected]
As executive director of a non-profit organization for working women, I designed monthly meetings, retreats, and focused group discussions and times of prayer to encourage living life in the Kingdom of God.
Retreat Design • 2010-2012 - Denver • Susan Green
Contact: [email protected]
Direct encounter with God, intuiting His manifest presence
Book: Proposal • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Aaron Ford
Contact: [email protected]
Nine guides for 1-day-a-month silent retreats.
Retreat Design • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Julie Commander
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual formation for Latin American leaders.
Retreat Design • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • James Henderson
Contact: [email protected]
Notes with Graphics for Renovaré Classes
Other • 2010-2012 - Denver • Peggy Reynoso
Contact: [email protected]
I am writing a book of children's sermons focused on spiritual formation.
Book: Proposal • 2013-2015 - London • Sarah Storvick
Contact: [email protected]
Follow: 8 weeks walking with Jesus
Book: Complete or In Process • 2010-2012 - Denver • Graeme Anderson
Contact: [email protected]
The development of a diversified program of seeking to become a disciple making church.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2013-2015 - London • John Roberts
Contact: [email protected]
This project integrates the 10 Healthy Missional Markers, spiritual disciplines and related books.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Phil Assink
Contact: [email protected]
A Taxonomy for Transformative Learning
Curriculum: School • 2010-2012 - Denver • Mark Hendrickson
Contact: [email protected]
The Quiet Revolution of Dallas Willard
Film • 2013-2015 - London • Avo Adourian
Contact: [email protected]
Living Rivers Yoga - Yoga rooted in the Christian Contemplative Tradition
Other • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Victoria Gloe
Contact: [email protected]
Wind in the Water
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Fred Roberts
Contact: [email protected]
BETA - 'Minding the Gap' Between Evangelistic Outreach and Church Attendance
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • • Anonymous Student
90-Day Spiritual Practice Journal
Devotional/Journal/Prayer Resource • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Anne Starrette
Contact: [email protected]
Passing on the with-God life in real life
Other • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Dorothy Tullman
Contact: [email protected]
Use of the traditional Sunday School structure to select a group of individuals evidencing readiness and interest in Christian Spiritual Development.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Darrell Frank Smith
Contact: [email protected]
12 week Bible study for youth
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2013-2015 - London • Pattie Phillips
Contact: [email protected]
70 Week Small Group Discipleship Curriculum
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2009-2011 - Menlo Park • Dennis Powell
Contact: [email protected]
Healing Presence Ministry and Social Media Blog
Blog/Website Resources • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Rhonda Milner
Contact: [email protected]
Meditations on scripture and classic devotional books from an understanding of the Six Streams of Christ's life
Blog/Website Resources • 2010-2012 - Denver • Matt Filer
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual Formation in the university ministry context
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Chris Comstock
Contact: [email protected]
Life with God Bible Study Companion
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • Emily Van der Vaart
Contact: [email protected]
"Floodgate" booklet that creatively re-presents the Streams of Living Water
Book: Complete or In Process • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • John Robinson
Contact: [email protected]
Seeking God's Kingdom in the family, neighborhood and the outdoors
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2011-2013 - Atlanta • David Kim
Contact: [email protected]
Life Mapping Vision for living in the Kingdom of God
Retreat Design • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Kim House
Contact: [email protected]
I-Formed: Seeking the Kingdom of God in our Digital Age
Book: Proposal • 2012-2014 - Santa Barbara • Tyler Johnston
Contact: [email protected]
Using the ideas of Dallas Willard and Scripture to facilitate conversation and transformation into Christlikeness.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2010-2012 - Denver • Kevin Koberg
Contact: [email protected]
Spiritual Formation Prayer-Book
Book: Complete or In Process • 2013-2015 - London • Stephen Parratt
Contact: [email protected]
How to Create a Universally Designed Sermon for Inclusive Worship
Sermon Series • 2016-2018 - Boston • Diane Browder-Boswell
Contact: [email protected]
God’s Invitation to Kingdom Living
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2015-2017 - Dallas • Robin Oren
Contact: [email protected]
Prayer exercises that engage the five senses; meeting God simply through incarnational exercises.
Book: Complete or In Process • 2016-2018 - Boston • Vivianne David
Contact: [email protected]
Conversations on the With-God Life
Blog/Website Resources • 2016-2018 - Boston • Park Smith
Contact: [email protected]
The Spiritual Formation Leadership Summit: Nurturing the Leaders's Soul and Equipping Leaders to Disciple Others
Retreat Design • 2016-2018 - Boston • Jody Owens
Contact: [email protected]
I took Mimi Dixon's talks and notes on St. Teresa's 7 Mansions and turned it into one, long article.
Magazine or Journal Article/Series • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Judy Lewis
A compilation of 52 short contemplative studies that present key ideas from RI Year 1, but also, to some extent, follow the rhythm of the Christian year.
Contemplative Studies • 2016-2018 - Boston • Sharon Racke
Contact: [email protected]
A "VIM Journal" to walk individuals and groups (possibly an entire church) through the process of setting vision, establishing intention, and thoughtfully selecting means toward spiritual growth.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Michelle Manley
Contact: [email protected]
Podcast: Unlocking Christian Spiritual Practices
Blog/Website Resources • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Jamie Bahr
Out of Zion: Meeting Jesus in the Shadow of the Mormon Temple
Book: Complete or In Process • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Lisa Brockman
Contact: [email protected]
How Spiritual Formation Impacts the Parenting of Grown Children
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Marj Drury
Contact: [email protected]
Thirty Day Retreat Guide
Retreat Design • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Coleman Houser
Contact: [email protected]
Retreat for high school students considering how we form & map our views of God.
Retreat Design • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Sylvia Sullard
Contact: [email protected]
Reimagining Jesus' encounters with women: insights into healing female embodied shame
Book: Proposal • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Roxy Humphrey
Christian Spiritual Retreat Center
Retreat Center • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Bonnie Summers
Contact: [email protected]
A Congregation of Image-Bearers: Sermons, liturgies, and resources inspired by my Renovaré Institute experience and shared with my congregation
Book: Complete or In Process • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Aaron Stamper
Contact: [email protected]
Teaching Spiritual Formation in a Local Congregation
Curriculum - Church-based (Sunday school, etc) • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Roger Parks
Contact: [email protected]
Befriending Sorrow & The Longest Night: Biblical Lament for the Local Congregation
Bible Study • 2018-2020 - Chicago • LaNeal Miller
Contact: [email protected]
The Heart of Christ: Meditations on John 13-17
Contemplative Studies • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Seth Asher
Contact: [email protected]
My project was an attempt to relate my abuse experiences with the current literature on recovery and spiritual formation.
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Lawrence "Doc" Sellars
Contact: [email protected]
U2raDaughter
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Linda Harper
Contact: [email protected]
I developed prayer trails behind our church which include six (changeable) signs that suggest prompts for spiritual practices.
Curriculum - Church-based (Sunday school, etc) • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Melanie Hammer
Spiritual Formation in Outdoor setting
Spiritual Formation Outdoors • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Melanie Hammer
Bright Star Marriage Blog
Blog/Website Resources • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Ted Harro
Bright Star Marriage Cohorts
Retreat Design • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Ted Harro
A retreat designed for ministries to understand transformational change
Retreat Design • 2017-2019 - Seattle • Laurie Reinhart
Guide for Six Retreats in Daily Life
Retreat Design • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Gavin Wark
Contact: [email protected]
A Grief Transformed: Soul Restoration During a Season of Great Loss
Book: Proposal • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Gordon Spronk
Contact: [email protected]
The Rosary as a Spiritual Practice
Lecture Series • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Lincoln A. Wood
Contact: [email protected]
Prayerful Discipleship Course
Lecture Series • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Greg Murphy
Contact: [email protected]
Swimming in the Streams - Book StudyGuides Targeting Spiritual Formation
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2018-2020 - Chicago • Alice Parente
Contact: [email protected]
The Twelve Steps WE Can All Take: Encountering Jesus in Spiritual Formation
Book: Complete or In Process • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Dan Collins
Contact: [email protected]
Connecting with God in Suffering
Blog/Website Resources • 2015-2017 - Dallas • Megan Reynolds
Contact: [email protected]
Invitation to Rest - A Spiritual Formation Website
Blog/Website Resources • 2019-2021 - Charlotte • Doug Valot
Contact: [email protected]
A 6 week Spiritual Health Challenge using Psalm 23 to discover who God is, who you are and the good news that is available to us.
Lecture Series • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Sun Hoffman
Contact: [email protected]
From the Inside Out; Experiencing New Life in Christ Through Integrated Discipleship and the Neuro-based Enneagram
Book: Complete or In Process • 2019-2021 - Charlotte • Deborah Owen
Contact: [email protected]
Sunday School Curriculum from the Book of Acts for Elementary School Aged Children which is Bible based and includes spiritual formation practices
Curriculum - Church-based (Sunday school, etc) • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Barbara Shustek
Contact: [email protected]
Cultivating a Friendship with God - Spiritual Formation for Youth
Curriculum: Church/Small Group • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Sara McMillan
Contact: [email protected]
Women’s Reset Intensive Retreat
Retreat Design • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Renee Worcester
Contact: [email protected]
This is a book of poetry documenting my journey through trauma organized around St. Teresa of Avila's 7 interior castles.
Book: Complete or In Process • 2021-2023 - Phoenix • Erin Hall
Contact: [email protected]