Peacemaking Commitment

As people of faith we are called to make peace. As a congregation, we signed on to the Presbyterian Peacemaking Commitment. Now, in the midst of one world crisis after another, we need more than ever to take this calling and commitment seriously. The Peacemaking Commitment involves doing peacemaking in various areas:

• Worship: Help to provide worship that points to the reality of God's peace giving.
• Prayer and Bible Study: Encourage the members of the congregation to receive God's peace in their own lives and, through prayer and Bible study, to seek it for today's world.
• Peacemaking in Families and in the Congregation: Enable and equip members of the congregation to grow as peacemakers in their families, in the congregation and in the community.
• Community Ministries: Help the congregation to work for social, racial and economic justice, to confront racism and all other forms of prejudice and to respond to people in the community who are caught in poverty, hurt by unemployment, or burdened by other problems.
• Study and Response to Global Issues: Encourage the congregation to support human rights and economic justice efforts in at least one area of the world, such as Central America, Southern Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, East Europe, or Central Asia.
• Global Security: Help the congregation study security concerns, work for world-wide arms control, and support alternatives to military solutions to international and civil conflicts.
• Make Peace with the Earth: Involve the congregation in efforts to protect and restore the environment.
• Support the Peacemaking Offering: Support financially the churchwide peacemaking effort by contributing to the Peacemaking Offering (collected each year on World Communion Sunday, the first Sunday in October) and through other means.

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8/14/2003