Road Closure Notice!!
Please note that the eastbound LINC will be closed from 9:30 pm Friday evening through Sunday. This may affect your drive home from convocation and to/from the open house on Saturday.
The closures will be in effect from the Upper Red Hill Valley Parkway/Mud Street in the east to Mohawk Road in the west. At the west end, access between Hwy 403 and the Mohawk Road exit will be maintained during both closures.
Traffic is expected to increase during these maintenance weekends, and motorists should allow extra time and plan alternate routes.
Parking Information for the Open House
CRTS has a parking lot at the rear of the building off West 28th Street. Parking, however, is limited and therefore we hope to reserve those parking spaces for our elderly or disabled guests. You may park on the streets around the seminary building, though the seminary assumes no liability for parking infractions. You may enter through the front door off West 27th Street or through the backdoor off the parking lot. If you are unable to climb stairs, you should enter through the rear door off the parking lot. There is a ramp to the door and you can use the elevator once inside the building.
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Click here to watch the Convocation Program that was livestreamed September 6.
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CRTS is also pleased to announce the release of a new book – available starting September 2019.
Your Word is Our Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of The Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary
(Lucerna CRTS Publications, 2019)
Click here for more information
and to order your copy today!
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Please save the following dates and help us commemorate our God’s faithfulness over the past 50 years by participating in one of the following events:
A Special Convocation – Friday, Sept 6, 2019 @ 8PM
- The Fiftieth Anniversary and Forty-Fifth Convocation @ Redeemer University College
- Graduation of Chauncey Knegt, Eric Onderwater, Jeremy Segstro, Filip Sylwestrowicz, Mark tenHaaf and Nathan Zekveld from the MDiv program as well as Leana VanAmerongen from the BTh program
- “The Hunger for Good Order among Mission Churches” – Dr. T. Van Raalte
- Book launch
- CRTS Male Choir
- Click here to watch the program as recorded.
Open House – Saturday, Sept 7, 2019, 10am – 2pm
Experience what it is like to be a CRTS student and taste the seminary’s traditions! Join us for the whole day and take in all four mini-classes or join us for only a short time period. Sit in on the mini-lectures or just tour the building. Please come when you can and for however long you can! This event is family friendly - everyone is welcome!
Schedule of Events
| 10:00 am | Opening Chapel by the Principal | Chapel |
| 10:20 am | Classtime - Choose one of the following "classes": | |
| Old Testament with Dr. Smith: Cities of Refuge | Senior Classroom | |
| Dogmatics with Dr. Van Vliet: Thesis Defense Saturday | Chapel | |
| 10:40 am | Classtime - Choose one the following "classes": | |
| Church History with Dr. Van Raalte: The Guanabara Confession | Senior Classroom | |
| Sermon Session with Dr. de Visser | Chapel | |
| 11:00 am | Coffeetime | |
| 11:30 am | Classtime - Choose one of the following "classes": | |
| Old Testament with Dr. Smith: Cities of Refuge | Senior Classroom | |
| Dogmatics with Dr. Van Vliet: Thesis Defense Saturday | Chapel | |
| 11:50 am | Classtime - Choose one the following "classes": | |
| Church History with Dr. Van Raalte: The Guanabara Confession | Senior Classroom | |
| Sermon Session with Dr. de Visser | Chapel | |
| 12:20 pm | Cake Cutting and Recognition of Retired Faculty | Chapel |
| 12:40 pm thru 2:00 pm |
Meet the faculty, staff and students, and socialize |
The Cities of Refuge – Dr. John Smith (Old Testament)
Why did the Lord give his people these cities? Where were they? And why could an accused murderer only go free after the high priest died?
Sermon Session – Dr. Arjan de Visser (Ministry & Mission)
Would you like an impression of what happens during the weekly “preaching practice” class, or Sermon Session, as we call it? A student will present the introduction, as well as theme and division of his sermon proposal. After this the professor will evaluate and point how he should improve.
Thesis Defence Saturday – Dr. Jason Van Vliet (Dogmatics)
Every Friday students engage in a (usually) vigorous debate about the finer points of doctrine. Today two students will be on the hot seat. You, too, can join the debate… even though it’s Saturday.
The Guanabara Confession – Dr. Theodore Van Raalte (Ecclesiology)
Imagine you are a 21-year-old knife-maker, and one of the first Reformed believers to reach the Americas. Could you write a confession of faith, under the threat of death? Come and hear this true story.