Panel- Photo by Carlos Yordan
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to sit on a panel hosted by Drew University title “How Faith-Based Organizations Change the World at the UN.” On the panel with me were Liberato Bautista, from the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, Bruce Knotts from the Unitarian Universalist Association at the United Nations and Andrew Tomlinson from the Quaker United Nations Office.
This event, a first for Drew University included an audience from the Drew University semester at the United Nations as well as United Nations Church Center and Ecumenical colleagues. In my remarks, I reflected on the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations two main goals:
- To equip and inspire Presbyterians to engage in global discipleship.
- To advocate for peace and justice guided by policies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s General Assembly.
I also had the opportunity to speak on how the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations fits within the structure of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has held a long history with the United Nations and has affirmed the United Nations in General Assembly resolutions dating back to the 1940’s.