Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-worker Chenoa Stock. The card includes a photo of her and an overview of her work. Three questions guide the ministry of Chenoa Stock. What does it mean to live as a child of God? To be part of a connected, world community? To love my neighbors down the street and across the ocean? She asked these questions as a Young Adult Volunteer in India and as a mission co-worker in Sri Lanka. They continue to guide her in her current role with the Joining Hands network in Bolivia, where she works with …
Reproduce this Peacemaking Offering can wrapper for children in Sunday school to color and paste to their soup cans.
A profile of several Presbyterian (U.S.A.) congregations who have installed and use solar energy.
Use this card as you pray for mission co-worker Cindy Corell. This card includes a photo and overview of her work. As a companionship facilitator for FONDAMA, the Joining Hands program in Haiti, Cindy connects agricultural experts in Haiti with Haitian farmers to help farmers do what they do best—grow food for others. As the country continues to recover from the 2010 earthquake, Haitians are seeking to produce more food locally and rely less on imports. Cindy senses God’s call to empower the Haitian people. “Being a farmer’s daughter, I know the joy a farmer knows when his or …
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as represented by the General Assembly, opposes the economics and practices of exclusion that restrict people from zones of privileged access, whether by law or custom. How long will patterns of separation and segregation be allowed to replicate fear and prejudice? Recalling the Confession of 1967 as we come to Portland, Oregon, in 2016, forty years after that Confession was sent to the presbyteries, we lift up the phrase, "with an urgency born of this hope." May we share an urgency born of the hope that our cities may be places of healing more than violence, …
We have the knowledge, skills, and resources to reduce our energy consumption and switch to alternative energy sources that are less harmful to the environment. Prompt action and leadership can keep global climate change from causing its worst impacts. The Climate Care Challenge is a two part commitment that first asks participants to make a personal step to help decrease the impacts of climate change, then asks for an outward step that engages the participants community. Resource available as a single page 8 1/2X 11 document or an 11x17 document.
Use this card as you pray for mission co-workers Cobbie and Dessa Palm. This card includes a photo and overview of their work. Working alongside the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP), Cobbie reaches out and witnesses to Christ in three ways. First, he leads seminars for pastors and lay leaders to enhance their skills in evangelistic preaching. Second, he works to enable development projects such as clean water, waste, and sanitation, and he leads value formation seminars for youth in conflict with the law. Third, he promotes peace and reconciliation through his advocacy role in Christian-Muslim …
Brochure for the Committee on Represenation in Korean.
Brochure for the Committee on Represenation in Spanish.
Part of the Christian-Muslim Relations mission toolkit, this document provides information about potential interfaith small group activities to encourage and facilitate understanding, friendship, peace and reconciliation.