Compassion Peace and Justice
Food Week of Action
The Presbyterian Hunger Program hosts the 2023 Food Week of Action www.pcusa.org/foodweek
In it for the Long Haul: International Accompaniment for Long-term Sustainable Development
Join us for a discussion of what it means to listen deeply to and center those we accompany as we work together for long-term social change and sustainable development and seek to understand and eradicate systemic poverty. This is the 4th in a series of online workshops helping Presbyterians to understand and respond to systemic... Read more »
Hunger Action Congregations Meet-up
There will be three virtual events: April 11, 2023 @ Noon (eastern) August 23, 2023 @ Noon (eastern) November 7, 2023 @ Noon (eastern)
MRTI meeting
The Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) will meet to finalize business for the 226th General Assembly (2024).
Reflecting on COP28: The PC(USA) Delegation Shares
The first United Nation’s Conference on the Parties (COP) – held in Berlin in 1995 – had just 3,969 delegates. Official numbers for attendance at COP28 held this past December in Dubai recorded 97,372, making it the largest in history. Among those nearly 100,000 delegates at COP28 were: • Alethia White, Co-Regional Liaison for Northern... Read more »
Connecting the Dots Webinar: The Long-Term Effects of Military Presence on Local Communities Leaders of the Vieques Women’s Alliance share the challenges at this Puerto Rican municipality island 20 years after the closure of a military practice base
The municipality island of Vieques, located in the southeastern region of the Puerto Rican archipelago, has faced many challenges in the last decades. During the 90s, the island hosted a military base for live-fire bombing practices. Since its establishment, local communities protested against it, but it wasn’t until 2000 that a surge of local, national... Read more »
MRTI Winter Meeting
MRTI Winter Meeting in New Orleans, LA
CSW68
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women at the United Nations. Every year we bring a Presbyterian delegation between both PMUN/PW. The event will be hybrid.
Challenging Christian Zionism – Episode 1
The 216th General Assembly (2004) approved the "active opposition” by the Presbyterian Church (USA), “to Christian Zionism and the development of a plan to communicate the theological and political ramifications it engenders within our denomination, in the mass media, and among U.S. government officials." 20 years later, in 2024, our Palestinian partners are calling us... Read more »
Mental Health Ministry Grant Application Deadline
All PC(USA) congregations, mid-councils and seminaries are eligible to apply for one-time ‘seed’ grants to initiate projects that will help educate, equip, and empower churches to reach out to, and with, people with mental health concerns and their loved ones. Deadline for Mental Health Ministry Grant Applications is May 1, 2024 Click here for more... Read more »