Praying for Namibia and South Africa

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 in 2026.

Praises and prayer requests listed for each country are provided by local BWA member partners when possible. Statistics provided are reflective of latest data received.

Namibia

1 BWA Member Partner

National Baptist Convention of Namibia

92 Churches
18,270 Members

Pictured is the Kaisosi Baptist Church Youth Choir.

Praise:

Join us in thanking God for the beauty of this nation, its people, and the religious freedom they now enjoy. We also give thanks for the leadership of Jonas Kakenge Mbwenga, President of All Africa Baptist Youth Fellowship.

Prayer:

Join us in prayer for continued impact through missionary work and church planting. We also pray for an end to domestic violence impacting women and children across the country.

South Africa

4 BWA Member Partners

Baptist Association of South Africa

25 Churches
2,000 Members

Baptist Convention of South Africa

169 Churches
28,000 Members

Baptist Mission of South Africa

21 Churches
2,800 Members

Baptist Union of Southern Africa

539 Churches
32,738 Members

BWA Director of Integral Mission Everton Jackson served with the leaders of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa last March and spoke to over one hundred delegates from Africa at a mission consultation held at the Maranatha Baptist Retreat and Conference Center.

Praise:

Join us in thanking God for the faithful work of local churches that has led to many baptisms.

Prayer:

Join us in prayer for the Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa, Cape Town Baptist Seminary, and Johannesburg Theological College as they train men and women for Christian ministry. Pray for the students and their families and for their financial needs.

We also join in prayer this week for the people of Eswatini and Lesotho.

A Pentecost Message from BWA Chair Karl B. Johnson

At Pentecost, God revealed the Church as his Spirit-infused gift to the world. A living community empowered to proclaim salvation, pursue justice, serve with compassion, and reflect the love of Christ in every generation. In the 2026 Pentecost message, Rev. Karl B. Johnson calls the global Church to renewed faithfulness through prayer, fellowship, integrity, evangelism, and courageous witness. The same Holy Spirit poured out in Acts 2 still empowers believers today to bring hope, transformation, and healing to a broken world today.

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A Prayer from South Africa

God,

How wonderful it is, how pleasant,

to be healed of the corrosive disease of racism and separation;

and to live as your people together in harmony.

Your Spirit will then fill the hearts and the minds of all people.

Nobody will be judged any more on the basis of race or colour;

but all will be ruled with justice and integrity.

The war will end and the people together will rebuild the country.

There will be no reference to the colour of the skin,

for all will be regarded as the people of God,

the people created in your image.

And this will be the beginning of what you have promised –

the life that never ends.

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