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Help Your Congregation
Do Something about Violence
Domestic and Societal Violence Awareness
Sunday is October 17, 2004
You don’t think domestic and sexual violence
are happening in your church? According to James Newton Poling,
a well-known author and theologian:
The credible research on violence indicates
that 25 to 50 percent of women and children will be victims
of physical and sexual violence. These statistics do not diminish
with social class, race, religion, or faithful church attendance.
This means that more that 25 percent of members of a typical
congregation have experienced violence.
[Read more]
2004 Peacemaking Offering
This year the Peacemaking Offering theme is “I will
grant peace in the land” (Leviticus 26:6), and it features
the art of Vera Carneiro Lima of Embu das Artes, Brazil. God’s
promise of peace is good news to people and to the land itself.
Creator of all that is, God seeks the well-being of all creation.
God reveals this concern in the commandments to provide a
Sabbath for the land every seven years and to celebrate the
Jubilee every fifty years (Leviticus 25).
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Congregational Response to AIDS in Africa
Presbyterian AIDS Action is focusing on sub-Saharan Africa
because the AIDS epidemic is accelerating there at an alarming
rate. African partner churches are responding, but they require
the help of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the churches,
the pastors, and the members. The primary focus of Presbyterian
AIDS Action (International Health Ministries) is community-based,
Africa-generated, and Christ-centered solutions.
[Read more]
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