Thank you for joining us this week as we pray for our worldwide Baptist Family.
Churches, individuals, and organizations are invited to join the staff of the BWA each week as we pray for our Baptist family around the world. Please add prayers appropriate to current news from the countries below as needed. We share prayer time each Wednesday morning at the BWA International Office in Falls Church, Virginia, USA. Questions or comments can be sent to PandD@bwanet.org.
IN FOCUS THIS WEEK:
All Baptists are invited to join us in prayer for the following countries:
- Japan
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Taiwan
and for the BWA member bodies in these countries:
- Japan Baptist Conference
11 churches with 476 members - Japan Baptist Convention
323 churches with 14,433 members - Japan Baptist Union
69 churches with 3,603 members - Okinawa Baptist Convention
37 churches with 2,554 members - Korea Baptist Convention
3,299 churches with 520,000 members - Chinese Baptist Convention
212 churches with 37,426 members
PRAYER FROM THE PEOPLE:
Prayer from Japan
Eternal God,
We say good morning to you.
We say good morning to you.
Hallowed be your name.
Early in the morning, before we begin our work, we praise your glory.
Renew our bodies as fresh as the morning flowers.
Open our inner eyes, as the sun casts new light upon the darkness
which prevailed over the night.
which prevailed over the night.
Deliver us from all captivity.
Give us wings of freedom like the birds in the sky,
to begin a new journey.
to begin a new journey.
Restore justice and freedom, as a mighty stream
running continuously as day follows day.
running continuously as day follows day.
We thank you for the gift of this morning,
and a new day to work with you.
and a new day to work with you.
(Masao Takenaka, first president of the Asian Christian Art Association, Japan. BAE p.62.)
