Teresa Foster says “it’s a very moving experience” when women all over the world come together to pray for each other.
When she gathers with the Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) of Alabama-Crenshaw Baptist Association on Nov. 4, it will be her second time to participate in Baptist Women’s World Day of Prayer.
It’s something she’s been looking forward to since last year.
“You could feel the presence of the Lord. You could tell God had His hand in it,” said Foster, a member of Brantley Baptist Church. “If you ever go to one (Baptist Women’s World Day of Prayer celebration), you’ll want to go to the next one, and the next.”
Baptist Women’s World Day of Prayer, held the first Monday in November, gathers Baptist women in about 130 countries to pray for their sisters in Christ around the world.
Using a prayer guide produced by the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Women’s Department, women lift up specific prayer requests for women in BWA’s seven unions worldwide.
At Alabama-Crenshaw WMU’s gathering — which will be held at Union Baptist Church, Honoraville — seven women will represent the seven regions and pray for those regions individually, Foster said.
“We pray for different prayer requests according to what’s going on with that country — praying for peace, praying for the lost,” she said.
Among the requests listed in the prayer guide are:
- For women in Asia, that the gospel would reach those living in poverty, violence, discrimination, illiteracy, abuse and trafficking.
- That women in Latin America would be light in their homes and neighborhoods and that they would have a vision to work with children.
- That European women “would recapture the first love that they had for God, and that it would take first place in their busy lives.”
- For Caribbean women to find employment and that they will be empowered spiritually and raise their children well.
- That women in Africa would “strive to give and provide more than they receive” as economic meltdown rises in most countries.
- For women of the southwest Pacific — Australia, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Fiji and New Zealand — that they will know the Holy Spirit’s leading and follow Jesus passionately.
- That women in North America “would all be good stewards of our physical, emotional and spiritual resources and that regardless of our situations, barriers would be broken and God’s love would prevail.”
For more information or to download a prayer guide, visit http://www.bwawd.org/day-of-prayer.
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