August 4, 2024 | Praying for Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea

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!

Central African Republic

8 BWA Member Partners

Association of Baptist Churches of Central African Republic

512 Churches
73,268 Members

Baptist Churches Union (UEB)

68 Churches
14,400 Members

Baptist Evangelical Community in Central Africa (CEBAC)

180 Churches
60,000 Members

Baptist Fellowship Church

60 Churches
8,493 Members

Communion of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Central Africa (CEBEC)

67 Churches
12,700 Members

Evangelical Baptist Church of the Central African Republic (EEB)

266 Churches
82,000 Members

Fraternal Union of Baptist Churches

236 Churches
3,000 Members

National Association Baptist Churches (ANEB)

228 Churches
50,000 Members

It was a blessing to welcome Faustin Touadera, President of the Central African Republic, at the 2024 BWA Annual Gathering. He is a dedicated Baptist deacon, and we pray for God to continue to grant him wisdom and strength in his leadership.

Praise:

Join us in thanking God for BWAid's history of partnership with local churches in the area and the opportunity to help women facing extreme poverty receive vital support and care. We also give thanks for the addition of three new member partners from CAR who were welcomed at the 2024 Annual Gathering.

Prayer:

Central African Republic is currently the #1 country on the BWA Baptist Vulnerability Index. Please join us in prayer for ongoing peace throughout the country and for God's protection and provision.

Equatorial Guinea

1 BWA Member Body

Equatorial Guinea Baptist Church

7 Churches
170 Members

Praise:

Join us in giving thanks for the ministry of Equatorial Guinea Baptist Church. The group will celebrate its three-year anniversary of membership in the BWA this October.

Prayer:

Join us in prayer for government stability and equitable distribution of resources in areas impacted by corruption.

UBLA Continental Prayer Day

Today is the continent-wide prayer day for the Union of Baptists in Latin America, one of the six regional fellowships of the Baptist World Alliance. Please join us in prayer for General Secretary Parrish Jácome Hernández, the UBLA Officers, and all those leading out in God's global mission across Latin America.

Flooding in Sierra Leone

Please join in prayer for the people of Sierra Leone who are facing significant challenges stemming from natural disasters. We received the following request from Alfred Sima Kargbo (Baptist Convention of Sierra Leone Social Ministries): "As the heavy rains, flooding, and landslides continue in Freetown unabated, remember God's people, the poor and vulnerable. Even my church, the Gethsemane Baptist Church at Orugu Mayemi Allen Town, is now flooded with water and all church equipment is destroyed. The highway leading to Allen Town is almost cut. The suffering of people is reaching its peak. Please help remember us in prayer."

Political and Economic Unrest

We join in prayer for peace for Bangladesh. More than 20 people have been killed in a new round of protests after more than 200 people died last month as demonstrators called for an end to a government jobs quota system. Homes and businesses have also been impacted due to an 11-day nationwide internet blackout.

In the wake of protests following the recent presidential election, the National Baptist Convention of Venezuela shared the following prayer requests.

Pray for all the families of Venezuela.
Pray for the freedom of Venezuela in the midst of oppression.
Pray for the families of prisoners and people who have died.
Pray that the church can be a lighthouse in the midst of so much darkness.

Join us also in prayer for the people of Nigeria. Protests erupted there last week in response to economic challenges.

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A Prayer for Strength

Lord Jesus,

you who have marked seventy times seven our falls each day,

and who know the dull frenzy of our eyes, darkened with fever and rancid wind,

you who know the snares of the fowler,

and his net that circles our steps in the bush, and our paths to the villages,

here we are given over to the horn of the rhinoceros,

and here are hovering the vultures and goshawks.

But you, who know the frailty of our two feet of clay,

and the place of our weakness and that of our rousing again,

Lord, let us not yield to temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

(A Procession of Prayers: Meditations and Prayers from around the World, comp. John Carden, WCC, and Cassell, London, UK, 1998, p.210)

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