5th January - Please pray for Wycliffe Baptist Church in Reading, Peachcroft Christian Centre, an LEP in Abingdon, and Didcot Baptist Church in Oxfordshire.

12th January - Please pray for Woodstock Baptist Church in Oxfordshire, Parkstone Baptist Church in Poole, and Devonshire Avenue Baptist Church in Portsmouth.

19th January - Please pray for Woodley Baptist Church in Reading, Orchard Baptist Church in Bicester, and Dedworth Green Baptist Church in Windsor.

26th January - Please pray for Wolvercote Baptist Church in Oxford, Ocean Church in Poole, and Datchet Baptist Church in Berkshire.

5th January - At the beginning of this new year, we pray for our Baptists Together family and all that this year will hold for us. Please pray that we will be attentive to God's presence with us, seeing God's heart for the people and challenges around us and responding to his Spirit as we seek to love our neighbours.

12th January - This week please pray for the South West Baptist Association as they seek to support, encourage and enable the 90 Baptist Churches in the South West to tell people the good news that Jesus changes lives. (SWeBA)

19th January - The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity this year focuses on the question posed by Jesus to Marthat: "Do you believe this?" (John 11:26). As we affirm our faith together with other Christians this week, pray that a renewed commitment to Christian unity might help to contribute to positive change in our communities. (CTBI Week of Prayer) 

26th January - Holocaust Memorial Day is on 27th January. We remember the millions of ordinary victims of genocides who were persecuted and killed for who they were and pray that in so doing, we learn the lessons of the past and stand up to hatred, bigotry and racism wherever we find it today. (Holocaust Memorial Day)

29th December - 4th January - Ingrid and Roger Hamlet - Ingrid and Roger Hamlet joined BMS World Mission earlier this year as specialists in orthotics and prosthetics, respectively. Having completed their missions and French language training just outside Paris, they will be relocating to serve at Guinebor II Hospital in N’Djamena, Chad, where they will set up a Prosthetics and Orthotics Department in early 2025.

5th - 11th January - Heart for the Gospel - BMS' prayer is that people who've never heard the gospel would experience the abundant life that Jesus alone provides. BMS World Mission is committed to training disciple-makers who share the gospel within their own culture and contexts. Please pray with them this week as they focus their Heart for the Gospel.

12th - 18th January - Help for the Journey More than 130 million people worldwide are living in temporary conditions, having been forced to flee from their homes. BMS World Mission's Help for the Journey programme supports forcibly displaced people as they seek safety.

19th - 25th January - Hope for the World - This week BMS hold Mozambique in their prayers as the work of BMS World Mission in the country comes to a close. They give thanks for the work of the Association of Mozambican Christian Lawyers, which provides legal aid for marginalised people, and for Baptist churches across the country.

26th January - 1st February -  Recruitment - BMS World Mission recognises that God gives people different skills and calls them to be a blessing to the nations, wherever they are based and whatever their culture. This week BMS focus on the recruitment of people in mission, people who serve organisations, hubs and networks, and programmatic and support staff.

You can access the full BMS World Mission Prayer Diary here