UBA Prayer Network

I want to be candid with you: for too long, prayer has been the thing we talk about, open our meetings with, and close our events with — but rarely the thing we have truly organized our association around. That changes today. At our Spring Session, the Union Baptist Association is officially launching the UBA Prayer Network — a dedicated team of intercessors drawn from across our fellowship whose sole calling is to mobilize, equip, and lead our churches to become houses of prayer. The early church didn’t treat prayer as a warm-up. In Acts 2, they devoted themselves to it. In Acts 4, corporate   prayer shook the building and emboldened their witness. In Acts 13, it was a praying church that sent out the first missionaries. We don’t need a new program — we need to return to an   apostolic priority. 

State conventions and associations across the Southern Baptist Convention have already discovered this. From Kentucky to Tennessee to Texas, Baptist bodies are rebuilding their ministries on a foundation of strategic,     Spirit-directed intercession. The SBC itself called for exactly this kind of coordinated prayer leadership at its 2021 Annual Meeting. It is time for the  Union Baptist Association to lead the way in our region.

What is the UBA Prayer Network? The Prayer Network is a team of qualified, committed believers who will serve the churches of our fellowship in three key ways:

Mobilize — actively engaging every church in our association to develop a culture of intentional, consistent prayer.

Equip — providing Scripture-based prayer guides, training workshops, and practical resources that any     congregation     can use immediately.

Intercede — covering our pastors, churches, missionaries, and communities in focused, daily prayer           according to the associational prayer calendar.

This team will pray for our pastors and their families by name. They will help churches adopt unreached people groups and pray for them consistently. They will organize prayer summits, lead solemn assemblies, and walk our communities in intercession. And they will provide every church with tools like our Praying for the Lost guide — equipping every believer to pray faithfully for those who don’t yet know Jesus.

How You Can Be Part of This:

First, pray. Ask God to breathe life into this ministry and to raise up intercessors in every church across our fellowship.

Second, share this with your pastor and prayer leaders. If your church has a prayer team or intercessory ministry, we want to connect with you and serve you.

Third, consider whether God is calling you to serve. The Prayer Network is looking for men and women with a genuine, growing prayer life who are ready to lead. If that’s you, reach out to our office.

The Scripture says, “My house shall be called a house of prayer.” That was the vision of Jesus for His church. It is the vision of the Union Baptist Association for every fellowship under our care. It begins today, it begins with us, and it begins on our knees.

Prayerfully Yours,

Eric