Baptist World Alliance events

BWA ANNUAL GATHERING AND GENERAL COUNCIL MEETING

Prague, Czech Republic, July 21-26, 2008. For information contact carolina@bwanet.org   or  meetings@bwanet.org.
Phone 703-790-8980 x 153  or  fax 703-893-5160.

WORLD YOUTH CONFERENCE

Baptist youth from around the world will "Dive Deeper" into fellowship, worship, missions and Bible study at the 15th Baptist Youth World Conference, Leipzig, Germany, July 30-August 3, 2008. Encourage the youth from your church to attend. For registration and information, please click here.

BAPTIST WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

About 750 women from 63 countries converged upon Aston University in Birmingham, England, for the 2005 Baptist World Alliance Women’s Leadership Conference. Plans are well under way for the next quinquennial conference, July 24-27, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii. See you there!

BAPTIST WORLD CONGRESS, 2010

Every five years, Baptists from around the world gather for fellowship, encouragement, and inspiration. Plan now to attend the next congress in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 28-August 1, 2010.

As one of seven Continental Unions affiliated with the BWA Women’s Department, NABWU connects you with Baptist women in 132 countries and 229 national Baptist women's organizations. 

Lauran Bethell received the Baptist World Alliance Human Rights Award in 2005 for her work among prostitutes and victims of human trafficking. She has spearheaded international conferences on prostitution in 2004 and 2006, and is now planning the 2008 conference in Green Lake, Wisconsin. She led one of two special interest sessions on sexual exploitation at the recent New Baptist Covenant Celebration.

INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE ON PROSTITUTION

Are you concerned that 600-800 thousand people--including teen girls from your own community--are being being trafficked to other parts of the country and the world for sexual exploitation?  Find out what other Christians are doing, and can do, to combat this problem and aid its victims.

The 2008 NABWU Executive Committee meetings will be held in conjunction with this conference.

Green Lake Conference Centre, Wisconsin, will host this conference, the third of its kind, from September 7 to 12, 2008. It will be a special week for

1. • Those involved with ministries to men and women in prostitution
   

2. • Those who want to start a ministry
   

3. • Men and women out of prostitution
   

4. •Local churches seeking to learn, support and become involved
   

5. •Denominational workers with this ministry as part of their portfolio
   

6. •  Missionaries who want to expand into this area.
   

Download the brochure.

Read about the 2006 conference.

NABWU president Linda J. Weber, who has been involved in planning these conferences, recommends this report on human trafficking.

SCHOOL OF WOMEN’S MINISTRIES

Would you like to become equipped to lead women’s ministries in your church with confidence and competence?

Then here’s an invitation for you from Pamela Heim, Director of Women’s Ministries for the Baptist General Conference. Eleven years ago she and her team began the School of Women’s Ministries, intensive training given on six Saturdays. The program has graduated 475 certified Women’s MInistries Specialists, with 100 more graduating this spring. It has spread across the US and Canada and attracted women from other denominations. Pamela invites her NABWU sisters to consider enrolling in one of the SWMs starting this year in Washington, DC; the Twin Cities, Minnesota; and Hyattsville, Maryland. For more information see the BCC World and BGC Canada websites,

Contact Pam’s colleague in Canada, Linda Ozirney, about dates and locations for upcoming SWMs in Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and possibly Toronto.