On this day, Baptist women

around the world pray for you


Every year on the first Monday of November, Baptist women around the world gather to pray for each other and give to support projects that improve the lives of women and children. Our global sisterhood needs the prayer and financial support of women in your church.

Will you pray for them?


Plan to hold a Day of Prayer with Baptist women in your church or community on or around November 1. It could be a brunch, lunch, afternoon or evening gathering, an all-day prayer vigil.... We encourage you to use and adapt the program prepared for worldwide use.

Last year women with steady hands made and iced these foot-shaped “Fruit of the Spirit” cookies for the Day of Prayer celebration at the Oromocto Baptist Church in New Brunswick, Canada.

The 2011 Day of Prayer program invites us to consider one of the Fruits of the Spirit: Kindness. It continues the 2010-2015 BWA Women’s Department theme, In Step with the Spirit.

Prepared by women of the Caribbean Baptist Women’s Union, it features Bible studies, testimonies, and information about the 2011 international Day of Prayer offering projects.

Download a PDF version of this program from the BWA Women’s Department website. There you will also find the “In Step with the Spirit” theme song, translations of the program into major languages, ideas for promotion and programs, and other resources. The 2011 program has been mailed to leaders on the BWA-WD mailing list.




Read how other women around the world celebrated the 2010 Day of Prayer.


For more about the 2011 Day of Prayer offering, go to this page>>


 
BAPTIST WOMEN’S DAY OF PRAYER Monday, November 7, 2011 YOUR OFFERING Half of your Day of Prayer offering dollar supports the Baptist World Alliance Women’s Department and international projects described in the Day of Prayer program. The other half of your offering goes toward NABWU and selected projects in North America and Guyana. Your 2011 Day of Prayer offerings in North America will assist these projects>>  Thank you! With help from your 2010 Day of Prayer offering: Donna Forster’s Mary Magdalene Ministry to people in the sex trade in Victoria, British Columbia, served dinners where the women were pampered, fed, and encouraged to follow Christ. Empowering Choices bought supplies for classes, transported women to interviews, and held post-prison meetings to help women in the Tarrant County (Texas) Jail deal with life after prison. The Baptist women of Guyana’s new Esther Project began to equip volunteers for a new preventative and remedial approach to prostitution among teen girls. Faith Hope Baptist Church Youth Enrichment and Empowerment Project in New Brunswick, New Jersey, bought computers, printers, and teaching materials and sent youth to conferences and events. Women Insight and Empowerment in Bradenton, Florida, offered training materials, health screenings, and healthy snacks to girls at risk of becoming statistics for teen pregnancy, drug abuse, and domestic violence. Groups of Hope, developed by Faith Holwyn in response to the spiritual and personal needs she saw among First Nations women in Northern Ontario, received help to expand the program. A further $1,000 will help a Canadian Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec short term mission team facilitate Groups of Hope in three First Nations communities. Amazing Moms, a new outreach of James Street Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ontario, offered meals and programs to inner-city women whose children and grandchildren came to the church’s monthly kids’ program. Woman’s Missionary Union leaders received scholarships toward in-depth training in mission, Christian leadership, and ministry skills offered by the new Christian Women in Leadership Certification program at Campbell University Divinity School in North Carolina. American Baptist Women’s Ministries translated and edited 2011-2013 program materials and other resources for Spanish-speaking Baptist women and girls in the USA and Puerto Rico. Canadian Baptists of Western Canada took their Growing Stronger Together conferences to children’s ministry leaders in more remote areas. Facilitators were trained for Gifted, Called, Empowered, a new program by Faye Reynolds for Women in Focus (Canadian Baptists of Western Canada), which teaches women how to discern God’s call to particular ministries. Day_of_Prayer_Offering.htmlDay_of_Prayer_files/NABWUDoPPromo%20copy.pptshapeimage_2_link_0