Peacemaking Offering

One of the four special offerings of the PC(USA) is the Peacemaking Offering, usually taken up around the time of World Communion Sunday, October 5 this year.

As usual, 50 % will be spent at the General Assembly level for peacemaking conferences and materials. Another 25% is available for each congregation to give to a cause of its choice. The Presbytery gets to designate the remaining 25%.

Mission Presbytery this year is splitting the amount it may use between two overseas concerns and seminars within the Presbytery itself. Forty percent will go again to Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam, the amazing Jewish/Arab village located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Check out their web site. Another 40% will go to relief efforts in Dafur, Sudan, in consultation with the San Antonio Interfaith Darfur Coalition. The remaining 20% will fund events where discussion and guidance on conflict resolution will take place. A pilot program will have two such events just before the October 2008 Presbytery meeting. See the article above.

Encourage your congregation to give generously.