[2] The International Reformed Fellowship (IRF) was formed also in 1994 with Calvinist churches in Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, and from all part of Asia.

WRF membership is also divided up into regional boards for planning and implementing fellowship for ministries within their own larger, geographic area.

The WRF primarily differs from these other groups in that it is a fellowship, not a council, and so includes in its membership not only denominations, but individual congregations, pastors and theologians, and non-ecclesial organizations (e.g. theological seminaries).

It conceives of its existence as facilitating dialogue and sharing of resources between the different global branches of Reformed Christians.

[22][23] The majority (75 of 83, as of September 15, 2023) of WRF member denominations prohibit women from being ordained as pastors, elders, or deacons.