Found­ed by Cel­e­bra­tion of Dis­ci­pline author Richard J. Fos­ter, Ren­o­varé is a Chris­t­ian non­prof­it that cre­ates resources and kin­dles com­mu­ni­ties which help peo­ple become more like Jesus. Learn more about Ren­o­varé.

Mem­ber­ship includes read­ing sched­ule with email reminders, study guides, pod­casts, essays and a mem­bers-only dis­cus­sion forum where you can inter­act with oth­er mem­bers and the Ren­o­varé team mem­bers lead­ing the ses­sions. Mem­ber­ship also includes access to vol­un­teer-led meet-up groups — vir­tu­al or in-per­son — in select areas.

Our 2022 – 23 sea­son offi­cial­ly began on Octo­ber 3, 2022. You may join any time dur­ing the sea­son and have access to the bonus fea­tures of all four books (arti­cles and pod­casts, as well as dis­cus­sion board conversations).

Due to the event-like nature of the Book Club, mem­ber­ships are not returnable/​refundable. Thanks for your under­stand­ing and for your sup­port of the work of Renovaré.

Once you join, you will have per­pet­u­al access to this sea­son’s resources and access to the dis­cus­sion forums through­out the sum­mer. We leave every­thing acces­si­ble on the Book Club dash­board through ear­ly September. 

Once we archive all of the resources, we send mem­bers a link to access them going for­ward. We do not pre­serve the dis­cus­sion boards past the summer.

We have two mem­ber­ship options:

• With-Book Mem­ber­ship (avail­able through Oct 2022): Ren­o­varé sends you the first book of the sea­son, Seek­ing God by Trevor Hud­son; mem­bers must then pur­chase or oth­er­wise obtain the oth­er three books of the 2022 – 23 season.
• Mem­ber­ship Only: Mem­bers must pur­chase or oth­er­wise obtain all four books of the 2022 – 23 season.
  

Books may be bor­rowed from your local library, pur­chased at your local book­seller, or pur­chased using Ama­zon or CBD links on the Book Club pur­chase page (links sup­port Renovaré). 

Read­ers often find it eas­i­er to use the rec­om­mend­ed edi­tions, as page num­bers and oth­er details can be edi­tion-spe­cif­ic. The week­ly read­ing assign­ments them­selves do tend to match with chap­ter breaks. Also, as none of the books for the 2022 – 23 sea­son is a trans­lat­ed work, the edi­tion will not mat­ter as much. 

Note: We are also aware that our read­ers are increas­ing­ly using ebook ver­sions of the texts, and we will do our best to make the read­ing assign­ments make sense for the dig­i­tal ver­sions of our cho­sen edi­tions as well.

With-book mem­ber­ships only include the first book, Seek­ing God. You will receive an email noti­fi­ca­tion when your book ships, which will begin after Sep­tem­ber 19^th.

We will ship the books via USPS media mail and mem­bers will receive a track­ing num­ber in their email noti­fi­ca­tion. Most US address­es will receive their books with­in 7 – 10 days.

All oth­er books of the sea­son must be sourced by mem­bers. Please vis­it your local book­seller or library to obtain them or see our books page to learn more about order­ing books online.

**UPDAT­ED INFOR­MA­TION FOR 2022 – 23 COM­ING SOON**

We have been great­ly encour­aged by the local com­mu­ni­ties, led by our won­der­ful member-volunteers.

In 2022 – 23, our vol­un­teer hosts will have the option of host­ing an online-only meet-up (open to mem­bers across the globe) or a local in-per­son meet-up. Ren­o­varé pub­lish­es the list of vol­un­teers and the meet-up times and days but does not have a direct role in host­ing the groups.

That said, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Your mem­ber­ship fee cov­ers the study guide, pod­casts, essays, week­ly reminders, and access to the online com­mu­ni­ty. Meet-ups, whether vir­tu­al or in-per­son, are a free bonus to the Book Club made pos­si­ble by vol­un­teers. Because of that, Ren­o­varé can­not accept respon­si­bil­i­ty for indi­vid­u­als’ expe­ri­ences — whether as host or par­tic­i­pant — in a Book Club group.

• You must be a mem­ber of the Book Club to con­nect with a local host. We have assured our hosts that their infor­ma­tion will only be made avail­able to those who belong to the Book Club. Once you join, you will receive a spe­cial link to the coor­di­na­tors’ names and email address­es so you can con­nect with them.
• Dates and times of meet-ups are set by hosts and are pub­lished on the Book Club web­site for your convenience.

New vol­un­teers are sign­ing up to lead all the time, so do con­tin­ue to check the list­ings as we draw near­er to the start date. If you would like to vol­un­teer to lead a group online or in-per­son, please use this Group Coor­di­na­tor Appli­ca­tion Form.

We expect our Book Club mem­bers to treat one anoth­er as Jesus would, with the high­est lev­el of hon­or and respect. Any sort of abuse or harass­ment will not be tol­er­at­ed — whether in-per­son or online.

Thank you!

A map is avail­able at ren​o​vare​.org/​b​o​o​k​c​l​u​b​/​l​o​c​a​tions. You must be a mem­ber of the Book Club to con­tact local vol­un­teer hosts about meet-up times and loca­tions. You will receive a spe­cial link that has host con­tact infor­ma­tion in your wel­come email once you join the Club. Thanks!

Each year the Ren­o­varé Book Club Selec­tion Com­mit­tee, which includes Car­olyn Arends, Richard Fos­ter, and oth­er Ren­o­varé team mem­bers, meets and choos­es the titles for the Book Club. Dozens of new and clas­sic books are con­sid­ered and care­ful­ly nar­rowed down to four choic­es. This is an inde­pen­dent selec­tion process — no pub­lish­er can pay to have its book included.

Each ses­sion has a facil­i­ta­tor (either the author or an expert on the book) who will help you grow as you read each title. They pro­vide bonus arti­cles and pod­cast mes­sages about the book, but they do not engage on the dis­cus­sion forums. You will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to post a ques­tion for the facil­i­ta­tor that might be includ­ed in each ses­sion’s third and final podcast/​webcast, which is dri­ven by mem­bers’ questions.

Our Ren­o­varé staff works togeth­er to mod­er­ate the dis­cus­sion board and engages as they are able. 

Final­ly, our region­al vir­tu­al and in-per­son meet-up groups are coor­di­nat­ed by vol­un­teer Book Club members.

All resources and dis­cus­sion are through a spe­cial Book Club mem­bers web­site. Mem­bers receive their login infor­ma­tion via email with­in a half an hour of join­ing the Book Club.

The Ren­o­varé Book Club can fit just about any sched­ule. We read each book over six weeks but include a prep week at the start and a wrap-up week at the end, so there is plen­ty of cush­ion. The read­ing ​“assign­ments” are not more than 50 pages per week.

At the begin­ning of each book, our mem­bers receive an out­line of the pro­posed read­ing sched­ule. Every Mon­day, we send out an update that includes: 

• A reminder of that week’s read­ing assignment 
• A sup­ple­men­tary resource (usu­al­ly an arti­cle or a pod­cast) from that book’s facilitator 
• (Some­times) option­al bonus resources for mem­bers who want to go deeper 
• A dis­cus­sion ques­tion for those who wish to engage in online discussion.

All of the resources, once post­ed, are avail­able all sea­son. There are no ​“live” online dis­cus­sions (mem­bers can post at any time), and you may engage as much or as lit­tle as you would like online.

Mem­bers who par­tic­i­pate in a vir­tu­al or in-per­son meet-up led by a vol­un­teer coor­di­na­tor will gath­er once-a-month at a time and day deter­mined by the volunteer. 

We do not have a flat-fee licens­ing sys­tem for our cur­rent Book Club. We do offer an expand­ing col­lec­tion of Book Club mate­ri­als from pre­vi­ous Book Club books that you may pur­chase for your group. You may find them here: Inter­ac­tive Book Study Guides

Jus­tine Olawsky is glad to help. Email her at [email protected]​renovare.​org.