Baptists One in Prayer | January 23, 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!

Turkey

1 BWA Member Body

Turkish Baptist Alliance

5 Churches
164 Members

Pictured is a group touring the ancient city of Ephesus as part of the 2014 BWA Annual Gathering in Izmir, Turkey.

Praise:

Join us in giving thanks for the ancient beauty of this country and the cultural and regional significance it holds.

Prayer:

Join us in prayer for the work of Baptists in Turkey among Syrian refugees. Pray that the work would be sustained and be a blessing to all.

We also join in prayer this week for the people of Cyprus and Greece. We give thanks for the 2,000-year presence and witness of the church in Asia Minor (now Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece) – the region in which Paul and other apostles first planted the seeds of the Christian faith. We join in prayer for those struggling because of economic crises in this region, and we ask for healing of memories and wounds inflicted by early 20^th century genocides of Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian communities.

Celebrating Our President

BWA President Tomás Mackey celebrates a milestone birthday this month. Join us in giving thanks to the Lord for his life, his passion for God's global mission, and his heart for people around the world.

Upcoming Event

We are excited to collaborate with European Baptist Federation to offer an incredible global experience in Stavanger, Norway, from July 2-9, 2023. Global Baptist leaders are invited to experience two dynamic events – the 2023 BWA Annual Gathering and the "Sent" Global Mission Summit. Baptist leaders from across the globe will connect through worship, prayer, learning, relationship building, and shared ministry. We will also grow together as we engage in plenaries, Bible studies, regional ministry updates, and small group reflections developed by 14 BWA Commissions. The Annual Gathering will lead into SENT 2023, an opportunity for Baptists to gather together with a strategic focus on both the privilege and responsibility we share in God’s global mission.

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A Morning Prayer

Our spirit seeks you in the early dawn, O God,

for your commandments are light.

Teach us, O Master, your righteousness

and make us worthy to follow your commandments

with all our strength.

Take away from our hearts every darkness.

Grant to us the Sun of righteousness

and protect our lives from any bad influence

with the seal of your most Holy Spirit.

Direct our steps to the way of peace

and grant to us that this present morning may be peaceful

so that we may send up the morning hymns

to you the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

the only God,

who is more than without beginning

and creator of all. Amen.

(Excerpt from a morning prayer, St. Basil the Great, 4th century, from Let us pray to the Lord, p. 58, WCC Publications)

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