Baptist World Alliance, BWA News Release

BWA Day 2018 to be observed

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Worship resource for Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Day 2018 is now available in English on the BWA website. This can be downloaded at www.bwanet.org.  Other languages will be subsequently available for download.

The observance will be on February 3 and 4, 2018, depending on whether Baptists worship on Saturday or Sunday.

The liturgy was prepared by Lina Toth (Andronoviene) of Lithuania, assistant principal and lecturer in Practical Theology at the Scottish Baptist College of the University of the West of Scotland. A musician, artist and theologian, she has special interest in exploring various aspects of ethics, spirituality and theology of culture.

The BWA Day celebration is aimed at affirming Baptist identity within the worldwide Christian family.  Baptists are encouraged to pray for each other and to renew their commitment to cooperate with Baptists globally through the BWA.

BWA Day has been celebrated since 1927 when the BWA Executive Committee, meeting in London, England, asked BWA President Edgar Mullins and General Secretary John Rushbrooke to prepare a “Special Statement” to express clearly the purpose of the BWA. The Statement emphasized that the BWA “seeks to express and promote unity and fellowship among the Baptists of the world.”

BWA Day is normally observed on the first weekend in February.

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©September 29, 2017

The Baptist World Alliance, founded in 1905, is a fellowship of 266 conventions and unions in 134 countries and territories comprising 51 million baptized believers in 178,000 churches. For more than 100 years, the Baptist World Alliance has networked the Baptist family to impact the world for Christ with a commitment to strengthen worship, fellowship and unity; lead in mission and evangelism; respond to people in need through aid, relief, and community development; defend religious freedom, human rights, and justice; and advance theological reflection and leadership development.