Peace with Justice Sunday - Overview

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Peace with Justice Sunday - June 3, 20121 (also can be celebrated at anytime)

Your Generous Gifts support:

Peace with Justice ministries in your local annual conference
Peace with Justice ministries in the U.S and Globally. These funds are distributed by the General Board of Church and Society.

“We want to be a part of changing the lives of others through sharing with them the Word of God and to do whatever is needed through our advocacy.”

—Angelica Justiniano, UMYFP president, Philippines Annual Conference

Half of the Philippines’ 101 million people, and most of its poor, live in depressed rural areas, many barely surviving by farming. They suffer from historic inequality in the distribution of land and resources, resulting in high unemployment, hunger, illiteracy and violent conflicts between insurgents and government forces.

But United Methodists there are making connections in order to make a difference. A small grant funded by the Peace with Justice Sunday offering helps Filipinos in the Southern Tagalog region build faith-based partnerships to foster solutions to the poverty and injustice that burdens this tiny nation.

Through its Just Peace League, the Southern Tagalog Provisional Philippines Annual Conference East teaches youth and adults to struggle alongside communities for justice, economic sustainability and peace.

The United Methodist Youth Fellowship (UMYF) joined the league at its Kongreso ng Kabataan, or Congress of Youth, in 2011. Bible study, lectures and group activities helped nearly 70 young people become more informed and involved leaders in peace with justice ministry.

“It was organized to let our youth have a voice on different issues of our society, especially around agriculture,” reported UMYFP president Angelica Justiniano.

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Now the youth are engaged in projects to protect the environment, feed malnourished children and work with poor farmers, “so we can know their problems and the possible solutions they need,” said Justiniano.

Your Peace with Justice Sunday offering aids disciples, young and old, who are indeed changing lives and changing the world, inspired by Christ’s gospel of love and liberation.

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GCFA
P.O. Box 340029
Nashville, TN 37203

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