Presbyterian Women of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- PW Global Exchange


	PW Global Exchange

			Every three years, a group of Presbyterian Women travels to another part of the world to listen to the pain and the joy that their sisters experience and to share their faith stories and ministries with each other. It is a global exchange because, the following year, a group of women from the same part of the world are invited to attend the Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women to tell their stories to their North American sisters. Learn about the Global Exchange logo.


	2008 PW Global Exchange to Eastern Europe
	Joined and Knit Together in Love Presbyterian Women will focus on how the changing political climate of Eastern Europe has affected women, the Church and the Roma1 people by hearing the cries of our sisters and responding with compassion, working for the end of all forms of violence, advocating for the rights of women and children, supporting our global partners and allowing ourselves to be transformed by partnership experiences. 1 The Roma people are itinerant ethnic groups in Europe, previously referred to in North America as Gypsies. Learn about the trip to Eastern Europe. Download a commissioning service to bless your participant in the Exchange.


	2005 PW Global Exchange to Brazil
	Caminhada: Walking Together in Mutual Love and Hope Presbyterian Women focused on how United States social, economic, political and educational policies impact people by hearing the cries of our sisters and responding with compassion working for the end of all forms of violence advocating for the rights of women and children supporting our global partners allowing ourselves to be transformed by partnership experiences [ Learn about the trip to Brazil ]


	2002 PW Global Exchange to Africa
	Sisters Together: Listening With Our Hearts Presbyterian Women undertook this journey, together with our African sisters, seeking God's Spirit to heal the wounds of our history to awaken our awareness to teach and lead us into the truth to reconcile us to each other and to God [ Learn more ]


	1999 PW Global Exchange to the Middle East
	No Longer Strangers The 1997-2000 Exchange traveled to Detroit, Michigan, and to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine to study issues surrounding the welfare of women and children and to gain a new understanding of the roles of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in the Middle Eastern world. [ Learn more ]


	Brief History of the PW Global Experiences
	Global experiences began as a program of United Presbyterian Women. When United Presbyterian Women and Women of the Church merged in 1988 to become Presbyterian Women, international experiences continued as the Global Exchange program. Previous destinations were:

	1973 Central Europe 1974 India and Nepal, emphasis — hunger 1977 Asian Encounter (Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Philippines) 1980 Asian Rim 1981 Las Americas Unidas (Central America) 1984 South Africa, emphasis — apartheid 1987 China 1988 Presbyterian Women is formed. The Global Exchange concept and practice begins. 1990 Australia, emphasis — indigenous people 1993 Eastern Europe 1996 Southeast Asia, emphasis–tourism and child prostitution 1999 Middle East, emphasis — issue surrounding the welfare of women and children and understanding roles of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in the Middle Eastern world 2002 Africa 2005 Brazil

	Concept Behind the Global Exchange Logo
	The Presbyterian Women Global Exchange logo suggests latitudes, longitudes and points held in between the compass rose movement from the inside to the outside, outside to inside colors of the earth, from desert to rainforest a stamp in a passport not sitting comfortably, balanced on one spot

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