STRENGTHENING

Worship, Fellowship & Unity

CENTERED IN JESUS CHRIST AND ROOTED IN DEEP SPIRITUAL LIFE, we strengthen our worldwide family through ongoing gatherings, pastoral presence, mutual friendships, and the cultivation of worship, fellowship, and unity.

Celebrating a Growing Family in Christ

We are pleased to welcome our five newest Member Bodies from four BWA regions:

• Baptist Alliance of Barbados (Caribbean)

• Equatorial Guinea Baptist Church (Africa)

• Baptist Evangelical Churches Federation of Guadeloupe (Caribbean)

• Kawthoolei Karen Baptist Churches (Asia Pacific)

• Missionary Baptist Conference, USA (North America)

This represents 169 additional churches and 29,000 Baptist sisters and brothers.

Uniting People in Strategic Prayer

More than 10,000 BWA Baptists from around the globe unite in prayer each week, interceding for every country in the world over the course of each year. As part of our commitment to multilingual engagement for this prayer movement, we launched the weekly “One in Prayer” guide in Spanish in 2022. Subscribe at BaptistWorld.org/prayer and join our prayer team.

Gathering the Nations for Global Impact

“Together we are faithfully living out the convictions of our common Baptist faith and witness, proclaiming the good news of the Gospel in Jesus Christ, and fulfilling the Great Commission.”

• Annual Gathering was hosted at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, USA in July 2022

• Over 600 Baptist leaders from 66 countries attended

• Largest Annual Gathering in 20 Years

Continuing a legacy of advocacy, the 2022 Annual Gathering called the Baptist family to stand together against racism. Attendees dedicated themselves anew at a moving Service of Recommitment (pictured left) at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, and unanimously adopted a new racial justice statement entitled “Restorative Racial Justice: A Call to Live in Flourishing Freedom.”

- President John HarrisMissionary Baptist Conference, USA A Global Family Standing for RESTORATIVE