These churches belong to one of three regional presbyteries which meet three times per year to discuss matters of common interest and to provide mutual oversight.

They also meet in synod once every three years to discuss matters of joint interest and to manage activities pertaining to the denomination.

Sister-church relationships are held with churches abroad which hold to similar doctrine and practice.

In the late 1940s a wave of migrants from the Netherlands settling in New Zealand expected to find their spiritual homes in existing churches of Calvinist persuasion.

By the end of that year, further churches began meeting in Hamilton, Nelson and Palmerston North, and a former Presbyterian congregation from Howick (now Bucklands Beach) joined.

Corporate confession of sin and the assurance of God's pardon are an integral part of Sunday morning worship, while in the second service one of the creeds is usually recited in unison.