Thank you for joining us this week as we at the Baptist World Alliance pray for our global Baptist family and for God's work around the world. If you pray along with us weekly, you will pray for every country in the world each year!

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Hong Kong

1 BWA Member Body
Baptist Convention of Hong Kong
  • 164 Churches
  • 114,016 Members

Pictured is a performance from the 14th Baptist Youth World Conference, held in Hong Kong in 2004 and attended by more than 3,500 participants from 70 countries.
Praise:
We give thanks for the leadership of BWA Vice President Dave Kwok. We also praise God for the visionary commitment of Kowloon International Baptist Church to create and fund the BWA-KIBC Evangelism Award that will be presented for the first time in 2021 at the 22nd Baptist World Congress.

Prayer:
Join us in prayer for Baptists as they continue to navigate recent legislative changes. Pray they might be instruments of the Lord's peace during this time of unrest and division.

Macau

1 BWA Member Body
Macau Baptist Association
  • 6 Churches
  • 750 Members

Pictured is a 2019 youth gathering at Macau Baptist Church. 
Praise:
Join us in thanking God for the faithful leadership and missional ministry of churches in this region.
Prayer:
Join us in prayer for opportunities to share the Gospel with immigrants from mainland China as well as resources to minister to those in the area struggling with gambling addiction.
Please join us also in lifting up the people of China.
One of the elements of the 22nd Baptist World Congress in July 2021 will be the presentation of the first BWA-Kowloon International Baptist Church (KIBC) Evangelism Award. Sponsored by KIBC in Hong Kong, the award is designed to recognize a Baptist congregation effectively uniting evangelism and discipleship and actively engaged in innovative approaches to specific cultural issues when sharing the Gospel. We hope you will make plans to join us for this special time together.
As we continue our journey through Advent, join me in prayer that the joy of the Lord will guide us this week. May the Lord make us messengers of the good news of great joy that is for all people.
A Prayer from Hong Kong

O As they face this day, O God,
find those who are lost,
separated from those they love,
crossing unknown borders,
without a country or home,
not knowing where to turn:
Find them, God, who always seek for the lost,
and cover them safely as a hen covers her chickens.

As they face this day, O God,
stand among the ones in refugee camps around the world,
in the hunger and despair,
in the crowds and the emptiness,
in the wet and the thirstiness:
Be their hope and their strength
in the crying out for justice
and open the ears of the world to hear their cries.

As they face this day, O God,
may those who live with us,
uprooted from their homelands,
find a new home
where their history is respected,
their gifts and graces celebrated
and their fear departed from them.
May we be their home,
may we be the ones who open our hearts in welcome.

As we face this day, O God,
sing to us your song of encouragement,
paint for us your bright pictures of a new world
where people need not flee from wars and oppression,
where no one lacks a country or a home,
and where we are all part of your new creation.
For we long to be your people, in spirit and in truth.
We pray in the name of Jesus the Christ,
who knew the life of a refugee.

(© Christian Conference of Asia, Hong Kong SAR, China. WIC pp.219-20)