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New Resources!

The Peacemaking Program is pleased to offer two new resources.

Proclaiming the Good News of God’s Peace is a daily Advent devotional featuring the writings of peacemakers across the United States and around God’s world.

Piece Work/ Piece Work/Peace Work: Working Together for Peace and Sudan is a curriculum designed for elementary children from Grades 1-6. This resource is produced in partnership with the Office of Child Advocacy, the Africa Office, the Sudan Mission Network and the Sudan Advocacy Action Forum.

Stopping torture - an Advent resource

The National Religious Coalition Against Torture announces a new resource  for use during Advent 2009. With sections for all four Sundays in Advent, as well as Christmas Eve, the new resource provides commentary on the scriptures and sermon notes that help connect the scriptures with today's national dialog on the use of torture. It combines scholarly research and exegesis of the lectionary readings with a conversational tone that makes it easy to build upon the ideas in developing sermons. The author is the Rev. Kirsten Klepfer, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Grinnell, Iowa.

Quick Takes

• Witness and vigil at WHINSEC, Fort Benning
• New interfaith peacemaking initiative at Stony Point Center
• American Indian perspectives on Thanksgiving
• Support ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• Congregational-based community organizing

Upcoming events

November 2009

• November 20-22: Witness and vigil at WHINSEC

December 2009

• December 10: Human Rights Day

January 2010

• January 18: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday

March 2010

• March 19-22: Ecumenical Advocacy Days

June 2010

• June 14-26: 2010 Irish Summer Institute

August 2010

• August 25-29: 2010 Peacemaking Seminar

About the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program

The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program was created in 1980 by action of the General Assembly of the former United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America adopted Peacemaking: The Believers' Calling.

The work of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program is guided by three affirmations outlined in Peacemaking: The Believers' Calling:

• The church is faithful to Jesus Christ when it is engaged in peacemaking.
• The church is obedient to Jesus Christ when it nurtures and equips God's people as peacemakers.
• The church bears witness to Christ when it nurtures the moral life of the nation for the sake of peace in the world.

Our work

For more than twenty-five years, the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program has been helping the church grow in its witness and commitment to peacemaking. We have developed a variety of resources, events and programs that assists the church as it responds to the gospel calling to "Seek peace and pursue it." Our work includes:

• Conferences/Seminars
• International Peacemakers and Travel Study Seminars
• Leadership Development and Support
• The Presbyterian United Nations Office
• Resources and Publications
• Young Adult Peacemaking Leadership Development

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