Population: 173 million
Main religions: Islam (90%) and Hinduism (8%)
Building on our shared past and continuing our long ministry relationship with the Bangladesh Baptist Church Fellowship. Investing in the next generation of pastors and leaders.
Our ministry engagement in Bangladesh goes back to the 1880s and we have so much to celebrate and be thankful for. It was Bangladesh (then East Bengal) that the first Australia Baptist intercultural team members, Ellen Arnold and Marie Gilbert, were sent out to serve. They faithfully served among the predominantly Hindu Bengali communities.
The decades that followed saw Australian Baptist intercultural team members establish a hospital, several dispensaries, pastoral training programs and community development work which are now entirely run by Bangladeshi nationals.
We celebrated that the Bangladesh Baptist Church Fellowship was established over 100 years ago and there are now over 500 faith communities.
Today we’re supporting the training of a new generation of ministry leaders through our partnership with the College of Christian Theology Bangladesh [CCTB]. More than 7,000 students access training through CCTB’s multiple levels of theological education.
Committed to reconciliation, Baptist Mission Australia acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and their connection to land, sea and community and all that the creator God gifted to them. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Committed to reconciliation, Baptist Mission Australia acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and their connection to land, sea and community and all that the creator God gifted to them. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
