Thank you for joining us this week as we at the Baptist World Alliance pray for our global Baptist family and for God's work around the world. 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.
Belgium

1 BWA Member Body
Union of Baptists in Belgium
  • 31 Churches
  • 1,505 Members

Pictured is Samuel Verhaeghe, General Secretary of the Union of Baptists in Belgium.
Praise:
Join us in giving thanks for the creative solutions to environmental, economic, and cultural challenges that have arisen from this region. 

Prayer:
Join us in prayer for opportunities to equip and deploy additional pastors to disciple young Christians.

Netherlands

1 BWA Member Body
Union of Baptist Churches in the Netherlands
  • 82 Churches
  • 9,695 Members

Pictured is a time of worship from the 2009 BWA Annual Gathering in Ede.
Praise:
Join us in giving thanks for the historically deep Christian roots and long-standing faith in this nation.
Prayer:
Join us in prayer for the leadership of the International Baptist Theological Study Centre (IBTS Centre) in Amsterdam as they offer theological training in a COVID and post-COVID context.
We also join in prayer this week for the people of Luxembourg.
In the aftermath of the military coup in Myanmar, the Baptist World Alliance has joined with Baptists around the world in decrying this unjust action, issuing a call to pray, leading an advocacy campaign, and sending emergency funds to Baptists ministering on the ground at this critical time.

But there is still much work to be done. Will you join us in standing with the people of Myanmar? In particular, with advocacy such an urgent need, would you use the template letter provided below to send your concern to the Myanmar embassy in your country? To learn about additional steps you can take, visit BaptistWorld.org/myanmar.
A Prayer for the World

Lord, we pray for the world,
for the world in which we live.
We pray for the girl who says:
I don't want to live anymore
and for the boy who confesses:
I sometimes want to end it all.
We pray for the new-born baby
with an uncertain future.
Lord, we pray for the world,
for the world in which we live.

Lord, we pray for all the people,
all the people in this world
who feel scared or upset;
who are ill or lonely.
We pray for people around the world
who have no freedom or no family.
Lord, we pray for all the people
all the people in this world.

Lord, we pray for the world,
for the world in which we live.
We pray that the world will not collapse
under the weight of violence and hate
and that our eyes will remain open
to beauty and goodness,
so that we may also pray:
Lord, we thank you for this world,
the world in which we live.
Amen.

(from the Dutch Dienstboek Schrift Maaltijd en Gebed, p. 793 no 65)