CONGRESS WEBSITE

All details concerning the Baptist World Congress are available on the BWA website at:

www.bwanet.org/congress

PROMOTING CONGRESS The BWA encourages Baptist individuals, churches and organizations to help promote the Baptist World Congress by making posts and links on churches’ and organizations’ websites, placements on churches’ bulletin boards and in printed bulletins, and share on personal and organizations’ social media platforms and websites. Downloadable brochures, posters and video are available on the website.

Short of becoming a missionary and serving overseas among Baptists in another country, I cannot imagine a beter way to engage with the global Baptist family than to atend the upcoming congress in Durban. At the BWA congress you will meet Baptist leaders from all over the world. You will hear choirs and learn songs of worship from other lands, and discover the rich variety of how Baptists worship in different languages and styles. You will come home with a solid recognition that you are a part of a global reality, and that our Baptist family is widely dispersed and alive and well among the peoples of the earth. Maybe like me you will feel that the worldwide Baptist family is your own family of faith. Te meeting will change the way you hear a news broadcast or read a news release, since behind the headlines you will see the images of brothers and sisters who live there and whose lives are impacted by what you are learning. You will find that the daily news will call you to prayer for fellow Baptists and their countrymen all over the earth.

— Bob Garret, Piper Chair of Missions/director, Master of Arts in Global Leadership/Global Missions Center, Dallas Baptist University

SOCIAL MEDIA

On social media, we encourage Baptists, churches and organizations to follow us on Twitter @TheBWA and join the BWA Facebook group. Persons are encouraged to post prayer requests, pictures and memories of past congresses, as well as re-share (re-Tweet) information posted by the BWA using the hashtag #BaptistCongress 15.

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COME TO THE CONGRESS l Celebrate Jesus Christ, the Door

l Worship God with Baptists from around the world in a variety of styles

l Fellowship with thousands of congress participants and

give expression to our unity as Baptist Christians

l Share the Good News with people who need to know

the God who opens a door to abundant life through Jesus Christ

l Seek justice as, together, we join in the

struggle for human rights and religious liberty, and seek ways of helping those in need, never forgetting how unjust structures help undermine human dignity

l Be moved by meeting new friends from around

the world and discussing partnership possibilities to serve God’s mission

l Explore what new call and challenge the Spirit

of God may make clear to you

l Share the intuitive presence of the Spirit

INFORMATION CONTACT:

Baptist World Alliance Washington Street VA, 22046

t World Alliance Facebook Group ww.facebook.com/groups/bwanet/

CONGRESS NOTES