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The Peacemaking Program offers a variety of prayers and other worship resources for days and seasons of the Christian year as well as days with particular significance for peace and justice concerns.

 
         
   
 

Advent and Christmas

Lent and Easter

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

World Water Day (March 22)

Earth Day 2008

Hiroshima Day (Aug. 6)

International Day of Peace (Sept. 21)

World Communion Sunday

 

United Nations Day (Oct. 24)

Human Rights Day (Dec. 10)

Gender Justice

Hymns for Peacemaking

Miscellaneous Worship Resources

How to Preach Peace (Without Being Tuned Out)

Sermons and Liturgies from the 2005 Peacemaking Conference

 
         
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Advent and Christmas

 
     
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Lent and Easter Resources

 
     
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World Water Day — March 22

The international observance of World Water Day grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.

The General Assembly of the United Nations declared 2008 as an International Year of Sanitation recognizing the slow and insufficient progress made in achieving the global sanitation target, and recognized that progress can be made through active commitment and action by all.

 
     
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Earth Day 2008 — The Poverty of Global Climate Change

Praising the beauty of God's creation is an essential part of our ongoing faith journey and worship experience and every year we dedicate one Sunday to lift up creation stewardship as a focus through an Earth Day celebration. Each year, the National Council of Churches’ Eco-Justice Working Group focuses on a particular environmental theme and highlights a number of ways individuals and congregations can celebrate and protect God's creation. The theme for 2008 is the interconnectedness of poverty and climate change.  The NCC Eco-Justice Working Group has created a resource for worship, adult study and youth activities. This is an Adobe Acrobat pdf document. Addressing climate change is a justice issue. The effects of climate change are already being felt the most by those who can least afford to deal with them. As the climate continues to change, the impact will be more keenly felt both by low-income communities in the United States and least developed and developing nations abroad.  Water scarcity, drought, crop failure, increased disease and flooding are just a few of the impacts. The interconnectedness of these two issues cannot be missed.

The Presbyterian Hunger Program provides a number of resources on the intersection of poverty and climate change.

Through Open Source, the Presbyterian Hunger Program provides a library of workshop presentations on local and global issues related to hunger, poverty and climate change.

Presbyterians for Restoring Creation is a national, grassroots organization to support people of faith working towards “environmental wholeness with social justice.”

The United Nations works on climate change in a variety of ways.

The Academy Award-winning video An Inconvenient Truth provides an introduction to issues related to climate change.

 
     
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Hiroshima Day — August 6

 
     
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International Day of Peace — September 21

The United Nations General Assembly has set aside September 21 of each year as the International Day of Peace — a day of global ceasefire and non-violence when all nations and people are encouraged to honor a cessation of hostilities. In 2007, the World Council of Churches invites congregations worldwide to pray for peace — possibly using the same prayers — on September 21 or the Sunday preceding it.

Learn more about the ministry of the Presbyterian United Nations Office.

 
     
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World Communion Sunday

 
     
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United Nations Day — October 24

Learn more about the ministry of the Presbyterian United Nations Office.

 
     
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Human Rights Day — December 10

December 10 is Human Rights Day - Celebrating the Universal Declaration

About Human Rights Day

Worship Resources

Bulletin Insert for Human Rights Day This is an Adobe Acrobat pdf document.

A Candle Lighting Service for Human Rights Day This is an Adobe Acrobat pdf document.

Stop Torture, Protect Human Rights —an order of worship for Human Rights Day, including sermon notes and suggestions for speaking with children.

Information about Human Rights

 
     
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Gender Justice

Learn more about the ministry of the Presbyterian United Nations Office and their work for gender justice.

 
     
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Hymns for Peacemaking

 
     
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Miscellaneous Worship Resources

 
     
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How to Preach Peace (Without Being Tuned Out)

Preaching peace does not seem all that controversial. After all, who is against peace?

But what if a preacher tries to get specific about Jesus’ call for us to be not only peace lovers but also peacemakers? [Read more]

 
     
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Sermons and Liturgies from the 2005 Peacemaking Conference

 
     
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