Baptists One in Prayer | November 13, 2022

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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!

Australia

1 BWA Member Body

Baptist Union of Australia

1,024 Churches
87,555 Members

Pictured is Mark Wilson, National Ministries Director for Australian Baptist Ministries, who was elected as the new President of Asia Pacific Baptist Federation in September.

Praise:

We thank God for the leaders of our Australian Baptist Ministries who are unified and working together well. We praise God that the Baptist movement in Australia is growing and becoming more diverse.

Prayer:

Pray for the remarkable number of youth and young adult Australians who are checking out church. Pray for the Future Thinking Forum of Baptist leaders from across Australia on November 15 and its outworking.

New Zealand

1 BWA Member Body

Baptist Union of New Zealand

240 Churches
20,627 Members

Pictured is a moment from Hui 2022, the annual Assembly of Baptist Union of New Zealand, that convened earlier this month.

Praise:

We give thanks for how churches have witnessed and worked together ecumenically, especially amid challenges of apathy in highly secularized societies.

Prayer:

Join us in prayer for churches to have the imagination, skills, and energy to build bridges of understanding in increasingly multireligious and multicultural contexts.

Baptist Women's World Day of Prayer: We give thanks for the incredible response of women around the world who participated in the 2022 Baptist Women's World Day of Prayer. May the Lord bless the faithfulness of these intercessors!

2022 Day of Prayer Resources

Annual Assemblies: We also join in prayer this week for several of our members who will be hosting their annual assemblies, including Baptist General Convention of Texas and Baptist General Association of Virginia. May God bless this strategic time together.

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Prayer of Praise

O Blessed are you, God of the Universe.

you have created us and given us life.

Blessed are you, God of the planet earth.

You have set our world like a radiant jewel in the heavens,

and filled it with action, beauty, suffering, struggle and hope.

Blessed are you, God of Aotearoa/New Zealand,

in all the peoples who live there,

in all the lessons they have learned,

in all that remains for them to do.

Blessed are you because you need us;

because you make us worthwhile,

because you give us people to love

and work to do

for your universe, for your world and for ourselves.

(Copyright material taken and adapted from A New Zealand Prayer Book: He Karakia Miihinare o Aotearoa is used with permission.)

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