Thought for the Week - 4th February 2024

Dear Friends, 

Sunday 4th February is the BMS World Mission Day of Prayer. Each year at the beginning of February, the Baptist family in the UK is invited to pray for the work that BMS is doing around the world for some of the most marginalised and least evangelised people to experience the fullness of life through Christ and the love of Jesus in both word and deed. From the BMS website we have the following that tells us something of what BMS does:

‘Mission – what is it? It’s over 200 years of matching God’s word with deed. It’s our storied Baptist history and world still in need. We’re shaped by our past as we look to the future. It’s you and it’s us, it’s ‘we’ working together, as BMS World Mission uniting believers to change the world. Will you join us? In over 30 countries from cities to the most remote places, we tackle injustice and suffering in desperate places. We walk with refugees and those forced to leave home. We share the good news of Jesus where it’s never been known. And why do we do all that we do? To make real the fullness of life and the hope that knowing Jesus will bring. Changing the world is no small task, but through prayer, through partnership, through giving, we’ll do more than all we can imagine or ask. Together we let children be children by building pathways to school. We care for God’s planet and sow, grow, reap food for all. We deliver aid when disaster hits and help prepare for the worst. We plant churches and seedlings to nourish spiritual thirst. We train local medics to heal lives marked by deep strife. We see communities flourish and improve quality of life. Together we can do all this and to do it all, we need you, because while God calls us, we’ll answer, until his work is through.’                                   

To find out more about the work of BMS World Mission, and also more about the Day of Prayer, go to https://www.bmsworldmission.org/       

Grace and peace,

Neil

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