President's Message

Baptist Women’s Day of PrayerLivija Godina
EBWU President
Through the Fruit of the Spirit KINDNESS

My dear sisters in Europe!

It is thrilling that soon we will celebrate The Day of Prayer! We will come together in different places to worship our God. We will remember each other from different countries and continents.
The Caribbean Baptist Union has prepared this year’s program. I hope you have already translated it in your own language. You can find the program on webpage: www.bwawd.org

Our Prayer Partner for next 4 years till the next Congress is Latin America. The Baptist Women’s Union of Latin America (UFBAL) held a Leadership Conference September 15-18, 2011 in Panama City, Panama. There were 200 women in attendance from 20 of the 24 national Baptist women’s organisations. The theme was “Hacia un Compromiso con la Niñez en America Latina” (Towards a commitment with children in Latin America). You can read more www.bwanet.org, e-news. Pray for Marlene Baltazar, president.

BWA Women's Department Executive Board

Pray for Women's Department Executive Board
Left to right back row: Livija Godina (Lame), Europe; Linda Weber, North America; Motunrayo Adegbilero, Africa; Julie Belding, South West Pacific; Marlene Baltazar, Latin America; Yvonne Pitter, Caribbean; Shook Jae Lee, Asia.
Seated left to right: Patsy Davis, Executive Director; Raquel Contreras, President; Donna Groover, Secretary/Treasurer.
EBWU Committee in Tallinn, Estonia October 9, 2011

Pray for EBWU Committee (left to right): Margun Waren, Margaret Brown, Aniko Ujvari, Wies Dijkstra, Livija Godina, Erzsebet Vekas.

Just a few weeks ago we had conference in Tallinn, Estonia, we were together more than 50 participants from 20 countries. We are thankful to Estonian team for hard but wonderful job!

• Pray for Middle East, for Palestinian Christians and all countries in this region. At the end of September EBF General council meeting took place in Israel and we met some Palestine leaders in Bethlehem, their cry was: don’t forget us!
• Pray for Asia, BWA Annual gathering took place in summer in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, where Baptist Union was hosting us, but in reality they are China’s people, because Christianity is forbidden in Malaysia and they have underground churches.
• Pray for Japan, when we were in Kuala Lumpur, three representatives shared how terrible is the situation where there was tsunami and nuclear reactor explosion, it has long term after-effects and they asked: don’t forget us please!
• Pray for our new EBF president Hans Guderian who started his task in September, and for all EBF staff.
• Pray for new leaders in Europe Baptist women’s unions, there were many conferences and congresses in October.
• Pray for your own country and your leaders, and the future of women’s ministries in Europe.
• Pray for revival in our hearts, that we could serve the Lord with pure heart and with joy because of Him. He is Worthy, He is Holy and it our privilege that we can serve Him through love.

Dear sisters, you see I am in trouble, there are many many -pray for… May God bless you and Holy Spirit leads in prayers!! We appreciate your Prayers and Prayer Day’s offering!

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. Galatians 5,6

Livija Godina (Lame), President

P.S. You see that I have a new surname. Nothing bad has happened, but God has given me a gift and after being a widow for 7 years, I am married.