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!
South Africa
4 BWA Member Bodies

Baptist Association of South Africa
  • 25 Churches
  • 2,000 Members
Baptist Convention of South Africa
  • 175 Churches
  • 28,000 Members
Baptist Mission of South Africa
  • 18 Churches
  • 1,500 Members
Baptist Union of Southern Africa
  • 537 Churches
  • 36,591 Members
2015-2020 BWA President Paul Msiza and General Secretary Elijah Brown with Baptist leaders during a 2019 visit to Langa Baptist Church in Cape Town, South Africa.
Praise:
Join us in thanking God for the impact of South African leaders, including BWA President (2015-2020) Paul Msiza.
Prayer:
Join us in prayer for continued growth of the many missional efforts of churches within South Africa and for blessings on their collaborative work with other nations in Africa and beyond.

Namibia
1 BWA Member Body
Baptist Convention of Namibia
  • 70 Churches
  • 13,528 Members

Pictured is the Kaisosi Baptist Church Youth Choir.
Praise:
Join us in thanking God for the beauty of this nation, its people, and the religious freedom they now enjoy. We also give thanks for the leadership of Jonas Kakenge Mbwenga, President of All Africa Baptist Youth Fellowship, and the leadership of the Baptist Convention of Namibia.
Prayer:
Stand together in prayer for economic stability and provision of jobs for the more than 35% of the population struggling with unemployment and poverty.
Join us also in prayer for the people of Lesotho and Eswatini. 
We are only a month away from the 2022 BWA Annual Gathering, hosted in the United States for the first time in 40 years and our first in-person event since 2020. Gathering on the campus of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama (USA), we will unite July 10-15 for a strategic time of prayer, fellowship, learning and planning together with a special emphasis on racial justice. Would you join us in prayer as the final preparations are made and would you make plans to join us either in person or online for this important time together in the life of the global Baptist family?
Praying for Eastern Europe

I am grateful for the opportunity to represent the BWA alongside President Tomás Mackey at the 36th Russian Baptist Congress in Moscow. With hundreds of pastors from across the country in attendance, we were able to bring updates from the global Baptist family and to learn more about how Russian Baptists are praying and responding.

Advocacy has long been an important part of the ministry of the BWA. Over the last few months, members of the BWA team have worked for justice and peace for Ukraine, including meeting with leaders at the United Nations and Presidents and Members of Parliaments in multiple countries. While in Moscow, we met with members of the Russian government where we directly called for an immediate cessation of violence and the redress of ongoing religious freedom and human rights violations. Would you join me in prayer that these efforts will help bring about just peace?

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A Prayer from South Africa

God,
How wonderful it is, how pleasant,
to be healed of the corrosive disease of racism and separation;
and to live as your people together in harmony.
Your Spirit will then fill the hearts and the minds of all people.
Nobody will be judged any more on the basis of race or colour;
but all will be ruled with justice and integrity.
The war will end and the people together will rebuild the country.
There will be no reference to the colour of the skin,
for all will be regarded as the people of God,
the people created in your image.
And this will be the beginning of what you have promised –
the life that never ends.

(© South Africa Council of Churches, Marshalltown, South Africa)