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 pray for every country in the world each year!

Do you have a personal prayer request today? Your global Baptist family stands ready to intercede for you as well. Click the button below to share a prayer need.
Bolivia

2 BWA Member Bodies
Baptist Convention of Bolivia
  • 68 Churches
  • 20,761 Members
Bolivian Baptist Union
  • 267 Churches
  • 50,580 Members

Pictured is the Baptist Convention of Bolivia's 70th anniversary celebration in 2017.
Praise:
Join us in thanking God for the ministry of the Bolivian Brazilian Baptist School.


Prayer:
Join us in prayer for a strengthened economy and resources to meet the needs of homeless street children.
Brazil

3 BWA Member Bodies
Brazilian Baptist Convention
  • 9,018 Churches
  • 1,790,227 Members
Convention of Independent Baptist Churches (CIBI)
  • 600 Churches
  • 45,000 Members
National Baptist Convention
  • 2,713 Churches
  • 400,807 Members
Pictured is General Secretary Emeritus Denton Lotz preaching at the Brazilian Baptist Convention in 2006.
Praise:
We give thanks for global Baptist leaders in Brazil, including BWA Vice President Fernando Brandão. We are grateful for the many ministry leaders who helped support the transition of the 22nd Baptist World Congress to a virtual event.
Prayer:
Please continue to pray for the ministry of churches and for healing for the many who are battling COVID-19. Pray for Baptist leaders in Brazil as they continue to seek ways to advance God's mission amidst the challenges of a pandemic.
Chile

2 BWA Member Bodies
National Baptist Convention of Chile
  • 50 Churches
  • 2,650 Members
Union of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Chile
  • 531 Churches
  • 25,737 Members

Pictured is General Secretary Emeritus Neville Callam in 2011 with leaders of BWA's two member bodies in Chile.
Praise:
We give thanks for Baptist leadership who continue to play an important role alongside others in pressing for important constitutional changes that strengthen human rights and justice across the country.

Prayer:
Join us in prayer for continued economic and political stability and for open doors to share the Gospel.
Peru

1 BWA Member Body
Baptist Evangelical Convention of Peru
  • 166 Churches
  • 14,000 Members

Pictured is Union of Baptists in Latin America (UBLA) Executive Director Parrish Jácome Hernández with Latin American leaders at an UBLA Congress in Peru.
Praise:
Join us in thanking God for the growing number of churches and believers in Peru and for the religious freedom they are afforded.
Prayer:
Join us in prayer for a new generation of pastors to rise up and respond to God's call. Pray for Baptist churches to gain relevance and influence within society and for God to give wisdom for discipleship strategies that will impact communities and the nation.
Pray for Haiti

We received word on Sunday that armed bandits attacked First Baptist Church of Port-au-Prince during early morning worship. A deacon was killed and his wife kidnapped. Would you share this urgent prayer request and pray for this historic Baptist World Alliance church founded in 1836, for the safe release of the church member who has been kidnapped, and for Haiti as they continue to respond to multiple challenges?

Click below to learn more about how we are responding to the needs in Haiti resulting from political unrest and the aftermath of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake.
Hungarian Baptists serve their country through 40+ schools with 14,000 students, the nation's only children’s hospice center, and one of the largest homeless ministries in Budapest. They have completed aid projects in 68 countries, and they strive to build upon a legacy of 100+ years of missional ministry – including the testimony of Kornya Mihaly who planted over 100 churches. It was an honor to see the ministry in action this month and to celebrate how they have been members with the BWA since the organization was founded in 1905. Would you join me in prayer for the Lord's continued anointing upon the ministry of Hungarian Baptists?
A Prayer to the God of Life

God of Life,
prepare our hands for a touch,
a new and different touch.
Prepare our hands for a touch,
a touch of encounter,
a touch of awakening,
a touch of hope,
a touch of feeling.
Many are the worn-out gestures.
Many are the movements frozen in time.
Many are the useless excuses just to repeat attitudes.
Give us daring
to create new titles of community,
new kinds of affection,
breaking away from old ways of relating,
encouraging true, meaningful ways to move into closeness.

(Ernesto Barros Cardoso, Brazil. Gifts of Many Cultures: Worship Resources for the Global Community, Maren C. Tirabassi and Kathy Wonson Eddy, United Church Press, Cleveland OH, USA, 1995, p.4.)