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Peace Fund – Building for the Future

Peace Offering 2018. Empowering Advocacy. Supporting Justice. Serving the Prophetic Call. Sunday, January 20, 2019. Grants available up to $2500!

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Peace Fund – Building for the Future

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  1. Peace Fund – Building for the Future “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. See, I am doing a new thing.” Isaiah 43: 14-21

  2. Peace Offering 2018 Together - • Empowering Advocacy • Supporting Justice

  3. Peace Fund - Serving the Prophetic Call of Our Conference • Being faithful followers of Jesus Christ • Advocating for justice

  4. Martin Luther King Sunday January 20, 2019 Or another Sunday that is appropriate for the work of or convenience of your congregation) (Check your UCC desk calendar: examples include, Ecumenical Sunday; First Day of UCC Women’s Week, Racial Justice Sunday, Amistad Sunday, Integrity of Creation Sunday, Immigrant Rights Sunday OR Holocaust Remembrance Day)

  5. Letter from A Birmingham Jail – MLK, 16 April 1963 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

  6. Peace Offering • 25% - keep for your congregation’s local justice initiatives • 75% - empowers others in the Minnesota Conference with grants of up to $2500! • Information at Creation Justice Team page of the Minnesota Conference website: http://www.uccmn.orgor directly at justicewitness.mnucc@gmail.com

  7. APPLY for Peace Fund Money. Grants Available for up to $2500! • Building Capacity for Justice Advocates / Congregational based organizing • Grants for empowering congregational advocacy • Grants based on the availability of funds and after full evaluation of the purposes for which the grant is being requested.

  8. Examples of recent Peace Fund Grants • $2000 paid for training MN Conference members to become faith based justice organizers (Weeklong training by ISAIAH) • $1000 paid for Rain Garden on local church property that benefits entire neighborhood • $2500 supported the Sacred Solidarity Network of MARCH (multifaith, antiracism, change and healing)

  9. Peace Fund OfferingMLK SundayJanuary 20, 2019 In his speech at Riverside Church in NYC to a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned, Dr. King said, “A time comes when silence is betrayal.”Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 1967 Let us not be silent to the suffering of another.

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