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| 2006
Peacemaking Offering |
received
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World
Communion Sunday |
October
1 |
October
1 is World Communion Sunday, the day the
Peacemaking Offering is usually received
by Presbyterian churches. The theme, “Swords
into Plowshares: Living the Ways of Peace,” is
taken from the great vision of peace found
in Isaiah 2:2–4, when the peoples of
the world stream to the mountain of the Lord
and learn from God how to live in peace.
What they learn from God leads them to action:
they change swords and spears, instruments
of war that are no longer needed, into plowshares
and pruning hooks, implements used in the
peaceful work of producing food for people. |
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Peacemaking Offering is one of four special
offerings designated by the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The 192nd
General Assembly (1980) of the former United
Presbyterian Church in the United States of
America called for an offering to be received
to support peacemaking initiatives and peace
education throughout the church when it adopted
the recommendations in the report “Peacemaking:
The Believers’ Calling.” |
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is recommended that 25 percent of the offering
received be retained by each congregation,
25 percent be used by synods and presbyteries,
and 50 percent be used by the General Assembly
ministries through the Presbyterian
Peacemaking Program. |
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