There is an organization dedicated to effective and formative corporate worship called the Association for Reformed & Liturgical Worship. Their web site www.arlw.org is a valuable resource for ideas that will strengthen Reformed practices of worship.

The Reformed Spirituality Network is especially dedicated to encouraging the private and home practices that enrich our relationship with God through the week. We advocate traditional Reformed practices as well as disciplines that can bring growth to our spiritual lives in our time.

The World Communion of Reformed Churches meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2010 approved a statement on "Worshiping the Triune God." This important document is available for discussion in our churches. Included in the document is a statement about "Daily Worship." It says, "Wise is the community that nourishes faith by encouraging daily worship for all believers, with emphasis on reading and meditation on God's Word, seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit, offering prayers of praise and petition, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, listening for God in 'sheer silence,' (I Kings 19:12) and living every moment before the face of God."

The Reformed Spirituality Network established a prayer room at the Calvin College Campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the meetings of the Uniting General Council forming the World Communion of Reformed Churches. We were there in a room of the Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex with space for prayer, modeling clay, writing in a journal, reading scripture, watching pictures and quotes on the screen, walking a labyrinth and placing prayers on a world map.

The meetings formed a new association of Reformed Churches in the world comprising some 80 million Christians in 108 countries, all in the Reformed tradition. Two previous organizations of Reformed Christians were disbanded, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council, to form the World Communion of Reformed Churches.

Thanks to all who helped set up the prayer room and be attendants there to pray for the proceedings and offer hospitality to those who came to the room.

David