Peace and Justice

The Peacemaking Offering gives your congregation the opportunity to support peacemaking within your church, community and the world. A Peacemaking Offering packet containing sample resources to help churches promote the offering is sent by the PC(USA)  to each congregation in the summer. They include a poster, minutes for mission, worship resources for World Communion Sunday, children’s activities, bulletin inserts, reproducible art, a coin box and an offering envelope. The Peacemaking Offering is received by most congregations on World Communion Sunday, celebrated the first Sunday in October and is divided as follows:

25% is kept by your church and your church decides how to use it in ways that“make for peace”.

75% is sent to Presbytery which

• Sends 67% to General Assembly for the peacemaking program
• Sends 11% to Synod for peacemaking projects
• Keeps 22% for Presbytery – each year the Peace & Justice Committee decides which projects to support with its portion.

Go to www.pcusa.org/peacemakingoffering for more information.

Other Helpful Links about peacemaking:
                www.pcusa.org/peacemaking
                http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/compassion-peace-justice
                www.pcusa.org/environment
                www.israelpalestinemissionnetwork.org
                www.nccouncilofchurches.org

Presbyterian Peacemaking Offering Grant Request Form