Baptists One in Prayer

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!

Ukraine

1 BWA Member Body

All-Ukrainian Union of Associations of Evangelical Christians-Baptists

2,192 Churches
105,189 Members

Note: At the request of the union, statistics repeated from previous year due to ongoing war.

Igor Bandura, Vice President of the All-Ukrainian union and a BWA General Council Member, spoke to members of the United States Congress last week.

Praise:

We give thanks for the many prayers and more than $8 million given by global Baptists that has helped provide compassionate care to more than 550,000 people impacted by the war.

To learn more about the global Baptist response to the war in Ukraine, watch our recent Standing Together with Ukraine service.

Prayer:

Listed below are specific requests from our team members serving in Ukraine.

• Please pray for BWAid's ministry in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast where a mobile kitchen will be serving hot meals to internally displaced persons (IDPs). Pray for the food supplier to be able to provide resources on time to help us effectively meet needs across 10 Collective Centres.

• Pray for continued opportunities for churches to share the Gospel so that more and more people who have endured such great suffering may experience the love of Christ.

• Pray for children and their families to be protected from bombings and mine detonation. Pray for opportunities to return to school, particularly those who are IDPs.

• Pray for additional project funding to care for the most vulnerable IDPs in Ukraine.

Uzbekistan

1 BWA Member Body

Union of Evangelical Christian- Baptists of Uzbekistan

60 Churches
2,735 Members

Raimundo Barreto (BWA), Christer Daelander, and Pavel Unguryan (EBF) participated in a joint human rights visit to Uzbekistan in 2011 after multiple police raids on Baptist churches.

Praise:

Join us in thanking God for the faithful witness of believers in the midst of a challenging context.

Prayer:

Uzbekistan is among the top 25 most persecuted nations in the world. Please join us in praying for the Baptist churches in the region experiencing persecution.

Also, join us in prayer for the people of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. We give thanks that several of these countries will be represented in Norway this July as we gather for the 2023 BWA Annual Gathering and SENT Global Mission Summit.

Join with millions across the global Baptist family during the month of May to participate in Evangelism Month. We invite you to choose five people to pray for throughout the month and to seek an opportunity to share the Gospel with them. To help with this initiative, we have compiled a series of written and video resources.

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A Prayer

O God, that we may receive your blessing,

touch our brows, touch our heads,

and do not look upon us in anger.

In a hard year be our mercy;

in a year of affliction, be our kindness;

dark spirits banish from us;

bright spirits bring close to us;

grey spirits put away from us;

good spirits draw near to us.

When I am afraid, be my courage;

when I am ashamed, be my true face;

be thou over me like a blanket,

be thou under me like a bed of furs.

(Mongolia. With All God’s People, compiled by John Carden, WCC, 1989, p.65.)

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