Register Now for the two great events of Advocacy Training
Weekend!
Jesus Weeps – Resisting Violence, Building
Peace
Compassion Peace and Justice Training Day - March 21
and
Ecumenical Advocacy Days March 21-24
A discount rate for both events
will be offered at the Double Tree Crystal City. Click here for more
information and to book a room: http://advocacydays.org/2014-resisting-violence-building-peace/location-housing/
Compassion Peace and Justice
Training Day
March 21
In a world where more than 45
million people worldwide are uprooted from their homes by persecution and armed
conflict, deadly conflicts over natural resources are erupting around the
world, and 3,000 children are killed in the US by guns each year, what is the
role of the Presbyterian Church in working towards a world where all can
flourish in peace and security? The ministries of Compassion Peace and Justice
of the PC(USA) are coming together for the 4th annual CPJ Training
Day in Washington, DC to educate Presbyterians on the role the church is
playing in resisting violence and building peace both locally and globally.
Go to our website for more
information and to register – www.pcusa.org/washington
A sampling of some workshops to be
offered:
Empowered: Victims No
More
Self-Development of
People is a ministry committed to assisting people as they identify solutions
to problems impacting them and their community. In this workshop hear from
people directly impacted by violence, how they have come together and how
through self-empowerment are working to rid their community of this violence
while at the same time healing themselves. Learn how you can assist people in
your community as they struggle for the right to live in peace without fear of
violence.
When the Global Market Gets Violent
Global partners – and their
Presbyterian allies – talk about the violent risks that threaten human rights
workers in settings where mining companies fight government regulations and
where land is grabbed out from underneath subsistence farmers who’ve lived
there for generations. Consider joining us in Joining Hands – as an individual,
as a congregation, as a presbytery – as we work to better lives.
Nonviolent Responses to the
Occupation
Palestinians, Israelis, and others
work in nonviolent ways to end the occupation of Palestine. This workshop will
provide an overview of nonviolent efforts with a focus on the World Council of
Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)
brings internationals to the West Bank to experience life under occupation.
Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs) provide protective presence to vulnerable
communities, monitor and report human rights abuses and support Palestinians
and Israelis working together for peace.
After Compassion Peace and Justice
Training Day join our ecumenical colleagues for
Ecumenical Advocacy Days March 21-24
Come to the 12th annual Ecumenical
Advocacy Days and join hundreds of other Christians in “Resisting Violence,
Building Peace.” Guided by the image of Jesus weeping over a capital city that
turned from the true way of peace (Luke 19:41-42), we will expose the violence
that pervades our culture and world.
As people of hope, we are consoled
by the promise that “justice and peace shall embrace” (Psalm 85:10), and are
reminded that justice requires peace-making and that peace requires
justice-making. We will confront and imagine how to transform the violence in
our world, and together will seek a vision of peace in the community, peace
among the peoples, peace in the marketplace, and peace with the earth. Through
prayer, worship, speakers, and advocacy training we will discover a faith-based
vision for national policies that “guide our feet into the path of peace” (Luke
1:79), all culminating with Monday’s Congressional Lobby Day on Capitol Hill.
