We are grateful for your prayers!
Thank you for joining us this week as we at the Baptist World Alliance pray for our worldwide Baptist family and for God's work around the globe. If you pray along with us weekly, you will be able to pray for every part of the world each year!
Australia

1 Member Body
Baptist Union of Australia
  • 991 Churches
  • 69,671 Members

Pictured is General Secretary Emeritus Neville Callam along with June Heinrich, Head of Baptist Community Services (BCS), during a visit to a Baptist Care Facility construction site in 2008.
Praise:
Please join us in thanking God for the leadership of John Hickey, BWA Vice President-Elect; and Karen Wilson, President-Elect for the Baptist World Alliance Women's Department.

Prayer:
Please join us in praying for the Baptist Union of Australia, a multi-cultural and multi-generational movement of people serving communities in metropolitan, regional, coastal, rural, and remote Australia.
 
New Zealand

1 Member Body
Baptist Union of New Zealand
  • 238 Churches
  • 21,687 Members

Pictured is a time of prayer from the 2019 Baptist Hui led by President Beulah Wood.
Praise:
Join us in thanking God for the incredible beauty of creation in this country and for the faithful ministry of the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society.
Prayer:
Join us in continued prayer for those impacted by the mosque shooting earlier this year.
It's been exciting this week to connect with our global family at the Annual Meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) in Roanoke, Virginia, USA.

Pictured along with BWA General Secretary Elijah Brown are Toma Magda from Croatia and Walter Klimt from Austria.
Pray for members of the BWA Team as they attend the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) Annual Meeting in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, and share in one of the workshops about embracing the future of the global church.
A Prayer from New Zealand

Blessed are you, God of the Universe.
you have created us and given us life.
Blessed are you, God of the planet earth.
You have set our world like a radiant jewel in the heavens,
and filled it with action, beauty, suffering, struggle and hope.
Blessed are you, God of Aotearoa/New Zealand,
in all the peoples who live there,
in all the lessons they have learned,
in all that remains for them to do.
Blessed are you because you need us;
because you make us worthwhile,
because you give us people to love
and work to do
for your universe, for your world and for ourselves.

(© Copyright material taken and adapted from  A New Zealand Prayer Book: He Karakia Miihinare o Aotearoa  and is used with permission.)