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.
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Cameroon
3 BWA Member Bodies
Cameroon Baptist Convention
- 1,535 Churches
- 228,507 Members
Native Baptist Church of Cameroon
- 135 Churches
- 16,000 Members
Union of Baptist Churches in Cameroon
- 525 Churches
- 80,000 Members
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Pictured is Donald Ndichafah speaking at the 21st Baptist World Congress in Durban, South Africa, in 2015.
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Praise:
Join us in thanking God for the ministry impact of three BWAid emergency grants distributed in Cameroon in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants helped provide food for orphanages, sanitation packs to 150 households, and hand-washing stations to serve 1,000 people.
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Prayer:
Join us in prayer for peace in the midst of war and the many who are internally displaced. Pray also for the family of Frederic Ngaka Epounde, president of the Union of Baptist Churches in Cameroon, who passed away in May due to COVID-19.
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Please also join us in prayer for Gabon, Republic of Congo, and Sao Tome and Principe.
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Join us in prayer for the families of United States Representative John Lewis and C.T. Vivian – two courageous civil rights leaders who passed away on July 17.
Congressman Lewis was the last living speaker of the 1963 March on Washington, and Rev. Vivian was a speaker at the International Baptist Summit against Racism sponsored by the BWA in Atlanta in 1999.
Dr. Cassandra Jones, Chair of the BWA Commission on Racial, Gender, and Economic Justice writes, "As a student at Spelman College (Atlanta, GA, in the late 70s), I was honored to meet both John Lewis and C.T. Vivian. They were both speakers during chapel services on campus, and I was chosen to participate in conversations with them during receptions following chapel. As a freshman, they both helped me to understand the sacrifices made so that African Americans could not only vote, but to also experience fair housing, employment, education, and opportunities to realize their dreams. I was inspired by their humility and their resolve to persist in justice work couched in peace and the love of Christ."
Join us in giving thanks for the impact of these two men. Their influence has and will continue to influence Baptists around the world to stand against injustice.
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Floods and mudslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have displaced millions in India, Nepal, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. Myanmar residents have received alerts as river waters rise. Nearly 200 people have been reported dead and many still missing. Statistics tells us that more than 4 million have been displaced in the South Asia region. Rescue teams are having an additional challenge with the flood waters rising and managing the coronavirus spreading amongst those displaced.
Please stand in prayer with APBAid and the affected conventions in these nations as we continue to monitor this developing situation. Specific prayer requests are listed below.
- Thank God for effective early warning systems and disaster plans which have allowed vulnerable families to be evacuated.
- Pray for the continued safety of families in affected regions.
- Pray that collateral damage to lives and livelihoods would be minimized.
- Pray for much needed resources required to respond to this disaster.
- Pray for all those responding and those who have been affected – that they may know God's peace and presence during this difficult time.
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Thank you for praying for our first Virtual General Council last week. It was encouraging to gather with Baptist leaders around the world to vote on essential BWA business and to celebrate the beginning of a new quinquennium. Our time together included a tribute to President Paul Msiza for his five years of faithful service and a commissioning of new President Tomás Mackey.
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Please join me in prayer for President Mackey and the new Vice Presidents as they begin their 5-year terms of service. During his commissioning, President Mackey shared the following prayer requests:
- Pray that I may be able to be a servant of the Lord
- Pray that I may cooperate in the process of linking people with different ideas
- Pray that I can encourage and empower others to be committed and accountable to serve as good team members
- Pray that I may be able to work on deep theological aspects while still living a joyful Christian experience
- Pray that I may be able to contribute to linking theological education and pastoral ministry
- Pray that I may help Baptists around the world to assert Christian discipleship into everyday realities
- Pray that I may be able to be a good husband, father, grandfather, and member of the extended family
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A Prayer for Transformation
Barriers, walls, and barbed wire mark the frontiers, O Lord.
Help us to transform them into places where we can meet,
with sincerity,
as countries and as persons,
so that the world will know that we are Christians
by the love with which our actions are marked.
(
Louise Bakala Koumouno, Republic of Congo
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