GAMC0929
August 19, 2009

Presbyterian Peacemaking Program offers new Minute for Mission video to interpret offering

Contact:
Mindy Marchal, (502) 569-5212

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program has developed a new minute for mission video to help interpret the Peacemaking Offering to congregations. The theme is “Peace Be With You” and gives over a dozen practical examples of what that means and how gifts to the Offering support activities and resources. In order to share the video with your congregations it can be viewed online or ordered through Presbyterian Distribution Service (PDS #12142-09-290). The Peacemaking Offering is typically taken on World Communion Sunday, which this year is Sunday, October 4th.

Each congregation is encouraged to retain 25 percent of the Offering it receives to use for local peacemaking ministries. Twenty-five percent is used by presbyteries and synods, and 50 percent is used by the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and other General Assembly Mission Council Ministries.

The 217th General Assembly (2006) encouraged congregations to consider directly some or all of their share of the Offering as a faithful Christian response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

You can find the Minute for Mission and additional resources online and information on the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program through their Web site.

The Peacemaking Offering was created in 1980 to support the efforts of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to live out a deeper commitment to peacemaking as part of our faithfulness to God. It is one of four special offerings designated by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s General Assembly. The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program is a part of the Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry.