2026 Annual Day of Prayer

Synod has designated the second Wednesday in March (March 11, 2026) as the Annual Day of Prayer. On this date each year, all CRC congregations are requested to take time to ask for God’s blessing upon the world, our nations and communities, crops and industry, and the church worldwide. 

We hope that your church will join us, or that your classis will help to coordinate a service of prayer to mark this occasion.  Although we can and should be people of prayer at any season, this is one specific opportunity to set aside time to pray as a denomination for God's favor on us and our ministries.

For those in the United States, it may be important to note that there is also a National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 7, 2026. U.S. Councils, if you feel that participating in an Annual Day of Prayer can be done more meaningfully in conjunction with this National Day of Prayer (U.S.), please do so. You have the right to change the date of a special service accordingly (Acts of Synod 1996, p. 578). 

Here is a story of the origins of CRC Day of Prayer to give context to this particular calling to prayer.

Please be in prayer for these different needs and concerns around the world and at home:

Global Church

Nigeria: https://www.crcna.org/news-and-events/news/mission-partners-nigeria-request-prayers 
Myanmar: https://www.crcna.org/news-and-events/news/reformed-faith-yields-hope-myanmar
Venezuela:  https://www.crcna.org/news-and-events/news/praying-venezuela 

CRCNA

Immigrant Churches: https://www.crcna.org/news-and-events/news/prayer-and-call-action-immigration

Renewal and Church Planting 

Synod 2025 has invited the congregations and classes of the Christian Reformed Church in North America to engage in an intentional time of prayer for the renewal of our congregations, including the planting of new churches. We joyfully respond to this call to prayer, knowing that our sovereign God hears the prayers of his people who come before him in sincerity and expectation.  

In response, we are praying specifically in these seven areas:

•  The multiplication of disciples and leaders in every church and every Classis

• Strength and support for a growing number of diverse church planters in diaspora communities

• A renewed commitment from congregations and Classes to support church planting in their region

• Congregations nearing the end of their life cycle and discerning their future

• Renewed engagement in mission from all of our established congregations

• Connections with the global church and international church planting

• Financial resources needed to support a multiplication movement in the CRCNA

Every Monday  prayers will be emailed out to those who sign up to receive them.  If you would like to receive those prayers, you can sign up here.

CRC Canada

Indigenous Ministries
Diaconal Ministries Canada
Centre for Public Dialogue

ReFrame (formerly known as Back to God)

Our vision is that the lives and worldviews of all people around the globe will be transformed by God's gospel message.  Relying on the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we create contextual media resources that proclaim the gospel, disciple believers, and strengthen the church throughout the world in 10 major languages.

Thrive (formerly Congregational Services)

Thrive’s purpose is to equip and encourage our congregations, to provide expertise, wisdom, and compassionate support to congregations while remaining attentive to a wide range of opportunities and challenges facing the church today."

Calvin University

Calvin University equips students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as Christ’s agents of renewal in the world. Calvin University is a Christian academic community dedicated to rigorous intellectual inquiry. Calvin students study the liberal arts and select from a broad range of majors and professional programs. The university fosters scholarship that creates new knowledge, that performs creative work, and that sustains natural and cultural resources. A Calvin education, marked by scholarly engagement with enduring questions and emerging concerns, prepares students to answer God’s call to live and serve in God’s world as agents of renewal.

Calvin Theological Seminary 

As a learning community in the Reformed Christian tradition that forms church leaders who cultivate communities of disciples of Jesus Christ, Calvin Theological Seminary serves the Christian Reformed Church in North America and wider constituencies by preparing individuals for biblically faithful and contextually effective ministry of the Word and by offering Reformed theological scholarship and counsel.

World Renew (Formerly CRWRC)

World Renew envisions a world where people experience and extend Christ’s compassion and live together in hope as God’s community. At World Renew, we join with the world’s families to change the story of hunger, poverty, and illness. For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of people have shared in this calling: staff, local partners, global communities, and people like you. Every day, people like you give in response to a disaster, offer monthly support to Free a Family from poverty, or travel with our volunteer teams to help renew hope firsthand. Together, we change stories, and those stories change the world.

Resonate (formerly Home Missions and World Missions)

Resonate joins with a diverse network of CRCNA congregations and other partners locally and globally. We work to mobilize individuals and communities to participate in God’s mission and work for the spiritual and social transformation of the world. We believe that the Holy Spirit is igniting a global gospel movement and we can join in by investing in these three critical strategies: Plant Churches, Send Missionaries, & Mobilize Congregations

Office of General Secretary 

The Office of General Secretary comprises the core denominational staff and programs that are needed to make a denomination run. This includes the General Secretary himself, but also staff who put together the annual yearbook, run the denominational survey, prepare candidates for ministry, plan and run synod, and so much more. 

Local Churches Missions

Resonate’s Praying on Mission: a 12-Week Journey

The importance of prayer in Local Mission is often overlooked or minimized, but truthfully it must be the foundation that leads us to love our neighbors and share the gospel in our communities. The study of Christian Reformed churches who grew through evangelism in 2023 revealed that prayer was one of the common themes.

Crops and Industry

In keeping with the origins of the day of Prayer, “the particular purpose of praying as a denomination for crops and industry” the CRC has many churches that are connected with farming, and we all depend on those farmers.
7.5% of our CRC members live on a farm, 8.8% are rural, and 16.1% live in a small town.  
Much of our denomination is directly connected to agriculture.