Baptists One in Prayer | March 16, 2023

Thank you for joining us this week as we pray for our global Baptist family and for God's work around the world. If you unite in prayer with us weekly, you will pray for every country in the world this year!

Denmark

1 BWA Member Body

Baptist Union of Denmark

54 Churches
4,996 Members

Pictured is BWA Executive Committee Member Lone Møller-Hansen conducting an interview with BWAid Director Marsha Scipio this week.

Praise:

We give thanks for the Myanmar Baptist refugee churches in Denmark who are standing together in prayer for and support of the many people impacted by the political coup in Myanmar.

Prayer:

in 2021, the BWA and European Baptist Federation (EBF) assisted with advocacy efforts in Denmark to stand against legislation that would have forced all sermons not given in Danish to be translated and submitted to the government. We continue to pray for these religious freedom efforts to stand and for God to bless the faithful ministry of Baptist churches in their communities.

Finland

2 BWA Member Bodies

Finland Swedish Baptist Union

14 Churches
1,035 Members

Finnish Baptist Union

18 Churches
900 Members

Pictured is a Finnish choir leading worship during a General Secretary visit in 2006.

Praise:

Join us in thanking God for the spectacular beauty of creation in this region.

Prayer:

Join us in prayer for church and ministry leaders seeking to minister in innovative ways in their communities.

Norway

1 BWA Member Body

Baptist Union of Norway

105 Churches
6,589 Members

Pictured is Jan Sæthre with BWA President Paul Msiza (2015-2020) at a March Executive Meeting in Falls Church, VA, USA.

Praise:

Join us in thanking God for the faithful leadership of Baptists within Norway, including that of BWA Executive Committee Member and former BWA First Vice President (2015-2020) Jan Sæthre.

Prayer:

We give thanks for the EBF and BWA Annual Gathering and Sent Global Mission Summit scheduled to take place in Stavanger, Norway, in July 2023. Join us in prayer for the Lord's blessings upon this strategic time together.

Sweden

1 BWA Member Body

Uniting Church in Sweden

637 Churches
58,569 Members

Pictured is Christer Daelander (second from left), recipient of the 2018 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award.

Praise:

Join us in thanking God for Sweden's longstanding commitment to peace and for their efforts to support peacemaking worldwide.

Prayer:

Join us in prayer for church and ministry leaders as they stand for a Biblical worldview in the midst of a secular culture.

We also join in prayer this week for the people of Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.

We are grateful for all the ways God is using our global delegation representing Baptist World Alliance Women at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City, New York (USA) through March 17. As part of the event, BWA Women hosted a workshop earlier this week entitled "Women and Girls in the Digital Age: Gender-based Cyber Violence" in collaboration with FoRB Women's Alliance. We invite you to join us in prayer and advocacy against all gender-based violence. Click to find out more.

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Sending Forth: A Commissioning Prayer

Go!

Go in haste!

Never stop walking out of the church room,

out from peace and tranquility, into the noise and discomfort,

out, to laughter and tears.

Carry with you the living bread,

as a treasure in your hands and your heart.

Share it over and over again.

It will always be enough, as long as you continue to break it.

Come!

Never stop coming back to this place!

Never arrive empty-handed.

Bring with you the cry that is pressing just behind your lips.

Let it be heard in this room.

Bring with you the hunger that is never stilled,

the fight that is not yet won.

Bring someone who has always been at your side without you knowing it.

Here is the meeting place - in the light of God's face.

(Hans Olav Moerk, Norway; English translation Kari Veiteberg, from the worship at the Church City Mission in Oslo)

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