Posts Tagged: peacemaking offering
Season of Peace Begins September 9
Prayer of Confession for World Communion Sunday
World Communion Sunday liturgy on peacemaking and responding to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Here is a worship resource to approach World Communion Sunday through the lens of Making Peace with God’s Earth. World Communion Sunday Liturgy for October 3, 2010 Prepared by Teresa Stricklen, associate for worship, Office of Theology and Worship, PC(USA)…
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O great rejected stone, you who are the cornerstone of our hope, be not to us a stumbling block, but build us up into a household of justice and peace. Guide us by your law and fill us with your…
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O God of majesty, as we gather today to worship you, disquiet us and your whole creation with your peacemaking Holy Spirit quietly insisting, “Know justice, know peace.” As your Son broke bread and gave it to thousands, so call…
Read more »A prayer for the day for World Communion Sunday
O Creator God, as we gather to worship you on this day, let your Holy Spirit fall upon this community of faith. As we celebrate and partake in Communion with other believers, we ask that you may fill us with…
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by Karen Maurer Which piece of peace will you work on? Thirty years ago, the Presbyterian Church identified peacemaking as the believers’ calling, emphasizing the connection between peace and justice. In August of 2010 at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico…
Read more »A special gift to the Peacemaking Offering
2010 is the thirtieth anniversary of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and the Peacemaking Offering, following the adoption by the General Assembly of Peacemaking: The Believers’ Calling, which called for a new emphasis on peacemaking across the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This…
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The planning team and leadership team for the 2010 Presbyterian Peacemaking Seminar gathered for worship this morning. The seminar is being held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Peacemaking: The Believers’ Calling, the General Assembly statement that called the Presbyterian…
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