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Upcoming Events
- With
the Lord's help on 16 May 2010 the sisters of Serbia will have their
annual meeting. The conference will be held in the locality
called Erdevik, close to the Croatian border. May the Lord be
with us! (Lidia Dega, Serbia)
- Hawai: Women's Leadership Conference In Step with the Spirit, July 24-27, 2010
Give Thanks
- Give
Thanks On 1-3 May 2009 sisters from Slovak and Czech Republic met
together at the Jubilee Conference in Brno. They remembered the
Fortieth Jubilee of the official founding of the Women's Department in
the church in former Czechoslovakia.
- Give thanks to God for the celebration in the Netherlands, Amsterdam for four hundred years of Baptist witness into the world.
- Give thanks that our President Livija Lame experiences, on her journeys, so much hospitality, love, cooperation and support..
Prayer
Requests of Women's Unions:
Germany
El Salvador
Estonia
Indonesia
Spain
Ukraine
From our Prayer Partner - South West Pacific
Personal Prayer Requests
All countries
Thank you for your prayers, understanding and love.
We really feel good when we know the world
of believers is praying and thinking of us.
”Praying
always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit...”
(Eph
6,18)
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Germany
- Pray
for the German Baptist Women. They need God's wisdom to make all the
right decisions in the process of renewing the Women's Work.
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El Salvador
- Hurricane
Ida caused devastation and destroyed a Baptist church. Eight persons,
including seven children, are missing after the destruction of First
Baptist Church in San Vicente in the Central American country of El
Salvador. The church collapsed following heavy showers and flooding on
Sunday, November 8, 2009. Gloria Cabrera de Rivera, former president of
the Baptist Women's Union of Latin America, asks your prayers for the
families of the victims and for possibilities to repair the material
loss.
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Estonia
- Pray
for the Russian speaking sisters in Estonia. It is very important, that
they can listen and talk in their mother language on very real, burning
topics, such as counselling, women as wives, women as
servant-ministers, medical issues, Biblical subjects, etc.
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Indonesia
- On
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 14.55 a 7.3 Richter Scale earthquake
struck off the coast of West Java. Please pray for the victims of this
disaster. Pray for Ingrid Subagyo, president of the women in Indonesia,
still working on several solutions to meet the need of people
overthere.
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Spain
- Since
July in the city of Denia, where Susie Mefford lives, several women
from three denominations have come together and are 'prayer-walking'
around the streets of the city. These women have a deep concern for the
prostitution issue and the anti-trafficking network. Please pray for
Noemi Abad who is working in the office co-ordinating this work. Pray
for this venture that many girls and women would be rescued from the
depravity of prostitution and trafficking. Pray that some will meet
Jesus and surrender their lives to Him."
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Ukraine- Pray
for the summer camps for women in this country. These camps teach the
participants to live closer to God, closer to people, to preserve unity
in churches, communities and families. All these qualities are
necessary to fulfill the main goal – to proclaim the name of God to
people and to carry the Gospel of Salvation into the fallen world.
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South West Pacific - Prayer Partner of Europe
http://swo.baptistchurch-online.com
- New Zealand
- Pray for a spirit of peace to rest on the homes. Each year, in this
country of just 4.3 million people, about 11 women die and another 400
are hospitalised due to assault. And domestic violence increases in the
Christmas season. Abortions also number around 18,000 per year. Pray
that a culture of life may replace the culture of death.
- Australia
- Pray for Baptist Women's Ministries across Australia, and for the
national coordinator Jo Jarlett as she seeks to unite Baptist women
around the country. Pray for the national Baptist women's Living life
magazine as it seeks to highlight ethical issues pertinent to women and
children.
- Fiji -
Pray for the restoration of democracy and that the churches will
experience more freedom. Pray that Christians will remain joyful and
hopeful in adversity.
- Papua New Guinea,
has the highest incidence of AIDS in the Pacific. Some 2% of the adult
population are estimated to be HIV positive. Pray that the church will
speak out more about the AIDS problem and how the disease can be
prevented.
- Papua - Pray
for peace to spread across the country, and that ethnic tensions will
lessen, especially between Christian and Muslim groups. Pray for
Christians to be strong in difficult situations.
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Personal Prayer Requests
- Pray
for our President Livija Lame. For health and strength and inspiration
on all her journeys. Also for her daughter, Marta who recently narrowly
escaped from death herself in a car accident, but lost a good friend in
the same accident.
- Ida
Groover, the mother of our secretary/treasurer of the BWA Women's
Department Donna Groover has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Her
prognosis seems good, but it gives Ida and her family great comfort to
know that women/people all over the world are lifting her up in prayer
for a good response to the chemo treatments. Praying for Ida, let's
pray also for all those women facing cancer in their lives. Pray that
organizations like Pink Ribbon can make a difference too.
- Bärbel
Volker wrote her story in this issue. Please pray for women in
equivalent conditions. They need the support of our prayer to come to
their personal decisions.
- The
husband of Elisabeth Vekas, our treasurer, has a serious illness. Pray
for strength for the whole family serving God in their daily life as a
pastors' family.
- Marjan
Wensink, for several years member of the board of the Baptist Women's
work, has lost her husband Hans in October 2009. Pray for strength and
comfort for her and her children.
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All countries
- Pray
for "Breaking the Silence on Female Genital Mutilation and Domestic
Violence" not only in Sierra Leone in the article of the Norwegian
sisters, but in all countries.
- Pray
for State decisions like the Dutch Government recently did: to make a
law that it is forbidden for parents to have their daughters
circumcised. Visiting their homeland they can show an official document
to avoid the cultural influence of their relatives. www.saynotoviolence.org
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