Day of Prayer

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 a Baptist Women’s World Day of Prayer gathering in your church or community on or around November 5. You could have a brunch, lunch, afternoon or evening event, an all-day prayer vigil.... We encourage you to use and adapt the 2012 program prepared for worldwide use.

What’s new for you in 2012

The 2012 program was prepared by the Asian Baptist Women’s Union. Continuing with the 2010-15 theme, In Step with the Spirit, this November we focus on Joy.

In past years you may have received a printed copy of the program from the Baptist World Alliance Women’s Department or your national women’s organization. This year the Women’s Department is using the internet to distribute the program more efficiently. You can download a PDF of the program from the Women’s Department website now or ask the WD office to e-mail it to you.

This 20-page program is in full color. It includes a wealth of information to help you plan a program that will meet the needs of your women, be it for an hour long program or a weekend prayer retreat.

If you prefer printed programs, you may order one free copy from the Women’s Department (703-790-8980) at no cost. To order additional copies, use the form included with your free copy. The cost of these copies is on the order form. Please note that the supply of printed copies is limited.

PROMOTE THE DAY OF PRAYER
1. Download the JOY poster (small or high-resolution).
Forward this flyer prepared by the Women’s Department to other Baptist women who might be interested in organizing a program in their church or area.

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

For more about the 2012 Day of Prayer offering, go to this page>>

BAPTIST WOMEN’S
DAY OF PRAYER

Monday,
November 5, 2012

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 2012 Day of Prayer offerings in North America will assist these projects>>

Thank you!
Your 2011 Day of Prayer offering encouraged six ministries with a grant of $3,750 each: Growing Minds, a new program of Frontlines in Toronto, Ontario, teaches young teen girls, caught in the cycle of abuse, neglect, and poverty, how to make healthy choices that enhance self-esteem and draw them closer to God.
At-risk female youth in South Providence, Rhode Island, can “Dream Big”, thanks to a comprehensive college and career planning program of South Providence Neighborhood Ministries, based in Calvary Baptist Church. Students will acquire the skills, knowledge, and confidence to break out of the cycle of poverty, pursue higher education and work toward social change. Volunteers with One Needs Another (a new after-school program of the Waccamaw, South Carolina, Woman’s Missionary Union) will receive the training, resources, and supplies they need to tutor struggling readers in grades one through six.
God’s Lending Hands, a monthly peer mentoring group for low-income mothers and their children in Windsor, Ontario, can afford speakers, workshops, transportation, children’s activities, and other expenses.
Women Mentoring Women, at St. John’s Baptist Church in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, taught debt management, health care, public speaking, “Dress to Impress”, and job skills to disadvantaged and unemployed women.
Groups of Hope, a trauma healing workshop developed for Canada’s First Nations women, trained five Mi’kmaq women in the Eskasoni reserve in Nova Scotia to lead this program for parents and children in families torn apart by addictions, abuse, and suicide.

Two other worthy projects brought the 2011 grant total to $27,000.

$2,000 enabled Dressed for Success to buy school uniforms and supplies for children of incarcerated parents and struggling families in Alexandria, Louisiana, where all elementary and secondary students must wear white shirts with khaki or navy pants or skirts in the right size and in good condition. In Guyana, two Day of Prayer offering grants totaling $5,000 ($2,500 in 2010 and 2011) are enabling the Esther Project to train and equip twelve women to steer young women away from prostitution, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and human trafficking, and to counsel its victims.