We attended one of their worship services. The BWA has a special relationship with conventions like Nepal that began not through Western missionary involvement, but as an indigenous movement which has now become a viable and effective Christian body, all within this decade. Executive Committee meeting and a leadership conference, report there is a community of more than one and a half million Baptist believers worshipping in 6,000 churches and mission points. Baptists comprise about 85 percent of the Protestant evangelical community. There are 6,667 ministers of whom 1,900 are ordained.
Women also play a key role in evangelism.
The main emphasis of the Myanmar Baptist Convention is mission and evangelism. Unevangelized people and tribal groups is another emphasis and already 20,000 of the more than 300,000 Wa people who have never been evangelized have come to Christ. While there is complete freedom of worship there is not complete freedom of religion. The Burmese military regime ensures that religious leaders are allowed very little political dissent. This is especially true with regard to Aung Song Suu Kyi the elected leader of the people who remains under house arrest.