5th October - Please pray for Shinfield Baptist Church in Berkshire, Eynsham Baptist Church in Oxfordshire, and Ascot Life Church in Berkshire.

12th October - Please pray for Shiloh Church in Guernsey, Emsworth Baptist Church in Hampshire, and Andover Community Church in Hampshire.

19th October - Please pray for Sandown Baptist Church in the Isle of Wight, Emmanuel Baptist Church in Swanage, and Anderson Baptist Church in Reading.

26th October - Please pray for Sandhurst Baptist Church in Berkshire, Eastleigh Baptist Church in Hampshire, and Amesbury Baptist Church in Wiltshire.

5th October -  Housing Justice holds Homelessness Sunday on the Sunday before World Homeless Day each year. This year, Homelessness Sunday falls on 5th October, and the theme is ‘Love thy neighbour’. Please pray and consider what your church can do in your own community to alleviate homelessness, suffering and poverty. (Homelessness Sunday)

12th October - This week we pray for the South Wales Baptist Association, which exists to encourage the building and development of healthy churches and to enable them to assist each other in mission in their community, in Wales and in the world. (SWaBA)

19th October - Baptist Union Council meets this week. Please pray for the members of Council as they look to set the broad strategic direction for Baptists Together.  (BU Council)

26th October - Please pray for the Faith and Society Specialist Team as they work to share stories, resources, network and connect our Baptist family. (Faith & Society)

28th September - 4th October - Quest Academy - BMS World Mission’s partner Quest Academy mobilises believers who are newcomers to Europe and who speak Arabic, Farsi and Dari. Quest students are discipled and equipped to reach out to same-culture and near-culture communities.

5th - 11th October - Bangladesh - Life in Bangladesh has stabilised after last year's uprising, but the country is still in an interim phase. Amidst uncertainty about the future, the Church remains faithful to its calling.

12th - 17th October - Help for the Journey - When people are forcibly displaced, they lose everything that marks "home" for them. BMS World Mission's Help for the Journey offers a bit of home to asylum-seekers and refugees.

19th - 25th October - Disaster Recovery - Both sudden onset disasters, such as flash floods or earthquakes, and slower onset ones, such as droughts, cause huge trauma and distress. Please pray for those recovering from disasters across the world.

26th October - 1st November - Former Missionaries - BMS World Mission is shaped by their past as they look to the future. Mapping the future can only be done by standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before.

You can access the full BMS World Mission Prayer Diary here