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Theological Reflection and Transformational Leadership

“The beautiful thing about this program is that it provides a framework to approach youth ministry while allowing me to work out how I will apply what I am learning in my unique context of ministry.”

Ade Brown, Jamaica

Horizons Children and Youth Leaders Training

In 2022, Horizons added 222 28 STUDENTS COUNTRIES 985 PEOPLE expanding enrollment to from

A Sisterhood Spanning More than 150 Countries United in Our Mission to Impact the World for Christ

UPTICK LEADERSHIP TRAINING: Through a partnership with Baptist General Association of Virginia, BWA Women helped facilitate the first Uptick global leadership cohort in 2022. The cohort consisted of young women from across each of our seven continental unions who are called to ministry in a global setting. Members of the inaugural cohort included women from Armenia, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Kenya, Lebanon, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.

BAPTIST WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER: The 2022 Baptist Women’s World Day of Prayer was an incredible event uniting women in strategic prayer and giving across 100+ countries and territories . We also o ered the first World Day of Prayer Global Worship Service in October 2022 with 3,000 people tuning in for a beautiful time of prayer, praise, and preaching. In addition, BWA Women was excited to double the number of funded ministry projects this year through the Day of Prayer O ering. Project focus areas included vocational skills training for girls in Cameroon, expansion of a crisis hotline ministry in Latin America, safe shelters in Jamaica and Azerbaijan for victims of abuse and tra cking, healthcare education in Myanmar, and a literacy training initiative in Papua New Guinea with a vision to ensure every Baptist woman in the country is literate within five years.