Peace%20with%20Justice%20Sunday%20calls%20for%20God

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Peace with Justice Sunday calls for Gods shalom.

• Peace with Justice Sunday, created by the 1988
  General Conference, is one of The United
  Methodist Churchs six churchwide Special Sundays
  with offerings.
• Traditionally, we observe Peace with Justice
  Sunday on the first Sunday after Pentecost.
  However, congregations are welcome to celebrate
  Peace with Justice Sunday on any date that works
  for them.
• Your offering allows The United Methodist Church
  to have a voice in advocating for peace and
  justice through many programs in the United
  States and around the world.

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Peace with justice means many things.

• When we talk about peace with justice, we focus
  on much more than the absence of war.
• Peace with justice means striving to live and
  work with people around the world both those
  who share our beliefs and those who do not.
• It means advocating speaking up for others to
  free them from whatever prevents them from living
  full lives.
• It means breaking down barriers so Gods children
  everywhere have access to jobs, housing,
  education, food, clean water and health care.
• We must do whatever we can to build a culture
  that welcomes economic equality, seeks peaceful
  resolutions, fights oppression and doesnt pit
  one culture against another.

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Your contribution works in your conference and
beyond.
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Your Peace with Justice gifts do so much!

• Children from impoverished families, who often
  depend on free or low-cost school lunches,
  receive weekend food supplies.
• Homeless women benefit from a broad-based
  ministry that addresses their unique needs.
• Mentors work with incarcerated youth and adults
  as well as their families to create a better
  environment.
• Summer camps for children and youth provide
  guidance on living peacefully and justly.
• Youth learn alternatives to gang involvement and
  violence.
• Volunteers prepare the Democratic Republic of the
  Congo for peaceful elections.

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Your offering reaches around the world.

• Mindy Johnson-Hicks and the Rev. Tina Carter, the
  interdependent team that heads Redemptive Work,
  endeavor both to build work experience and
  professional connections for individuals deemed
  traditionally unemployable.
• The client receives a job and training, a living
  wage and a letter of reference when the time
  comes for him or her to rejoin the workforce.

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Your offering reaches around the world.

• The Pastoral Care and Counseling Services in
  Mutare, Zimbabwe, started healing and
  reconciliation interventions in November 2009.
• The 13-year-old organization offers counseling to
  communities, individuals and families and
  training in communications, negotiation and
  problem solving.
• Through redirection of youth energy from
  destructive activities such as violence to
  constructive activities such as sports, youth
  have been empowered with life skills that help
  them make contributions to society.
• - Mazvita Machinga, staff member

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How you can help

• You can give online at www.umcgiving.org/give-now.
  
• You can give through your local church. Write a
  check to your local church and identify it as
  Peace with Justice Sunday offering. Place it in
  the offering plate or give it to your church
  treasurer.

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Learn more!

• Visit our website www.umcgiving.org/pwjs
• General Board of Church and Society
  www.umc-gbcs.org