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Join the Peacemaker Team If you identify with our vision and priorities, we invite you to join the Peacemaker Team. We are a faith ministry, entirely dependent on your prayers, your advocacy and financial support. To receive regular updates, visit https://peacemakers.ngo or visit our Facebook page. Donate to Peacemakers We are thankful that more than 70% of our 2019 budget is already pledged or funded. However, we need to raise a further £14,000 to respond to the requests already received this year. Please consider making a one-off gift or regular monthly donation using the enclosed response, or via https://peacemakers.ngo/give/ With your help, Peacemaker Trust will continue to further the cause of justice, peace and reconciliation in our world, where most needed. The Peacemaker Vision We aspire to be catalysts for peacemaking, especially where minorities are persecuted, where justice is denied, human rights are suppressed or reconciliation is needed. Our vision is of a world reconciled to God and where its people are at peace with one another. The Five Marks of Mission Peacemakers affirms the Five Marks of Mission widely adopted by churches and mission agencies as a definition of contemporary Christian mission. o To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom o To teach, baptise and nurture new believers o To respond to human need by loving service o To seek to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation o To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth Contact: [email protected] https://peacemakers.ngo Registered Office: 25 Gordon Road, Windsor, SL4 3RG Registered Charity 1171163
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JointhePeacemakerTeam
Ifyouidentifywithourvisionandpriorities,weinviteyoutojointhePeacemakerTeam.Weareafaithministry,entirelydependentonyourprayers, your advocacy and financial support. To receive regularupdates,visithttps://peacemakers.ngoorvisitourFacebookpage.
DonatetoPeacemakers
Weare thankful thatmore than70%ofour2019budget isalreadypledgedor funded.However,weneed to raise a further£14,000 torespondtotherequestsalreadyreceivedthisyear.Pleaseconsidermakingaone-offgiftorregularmonthlydonationusingtheenclosedresponse,orviahttps://peacemakers.ngo/give/Withyourhelp,PeacemakerTrustwillcontinuetofurtherthecauseofjustice,peaceandreconciliationinourworld,wheremostneeded.
ThePeacemakerVision
Weaspiretobecatalystsforpeacemaking,especiallywhereminoritiesarepersecuted,wherejusticeisdenied,humanrightsaresuppressedorreconciliationisneeded.OurvisionisofaworldreconciledtoGodandwhereitspeopleareatpeacewithoneanother.
TheFiveMarksofMission
Peacemakers affirms theFive Marks of Mission widely adopted bychurches and mission agencies as a definition of contemporaryChristianmission.o ToproclaimtheGoodNewsoftheKingdomo Toteach,baptiseandnurturenewbelieverso Torespondtohumanneedbylovingserviceo Toseektotransformunjuststructuresofsociety,tochallenge
violenceofeverykindandtopursuepeaceandreconciliationo Tostrivetosafeguardtheintegrityofcreationandsustainand
renewthelifeoftheearth
Contact:[email protected]://peacemakers.ngo
RegisteredOffice:25GordonRoad,Windsor,SL43RG
RegisteredCharity1171163
ProclaimingtheGoodNewsIn January, Bishop Darlington Bendankeha of Kagera in Tanzania,invited the CE East Africa team to train 150 clergy to use theChristianity Explored course. The CE team also returned to theAnglicanPeaceCentreinCyanguguontheRwandanborderwiththeDRC, to equip 50 clergy from Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo. InSeptember,BishopTimWambunyaofButereinKenya,askedtheteamtotrain50laypastorstousetheCEcoursewithintheircommunities.
TeachingandNurturingNewBelieversInMay,BishopNathanAmootiofCyangugu,Rwanda,invitedStephento teach a module on Judaism and Christianity at the DiocesanTheologicalSchool.TheSchoolistraininglay-leaderswholiveinrurallocations,manyofwhomhavelittleornoformaleducation.
RespondingtoHumanNeedTheSouthamptonandWinchesterVisitorsGroup (SWVG) are volunteers whobefriend and support adult asylumseekersandrefugeesintheSouthamptonarea. Stephen is presently undergoingtrainingtobecomeavisitor.SWVGseektoimprove the lives of asylum seekers andsupportthosethataredestitute.
TransformingUnjustStructuresSabeelJerusalem,haslaunchedaninteractiveresource called Kumi Now profilingorganisations working to raise awarenessabout specific issues in Israel-Palestine,provideinformationaboutanissueofinjusticethrough the stories of those effected, andpromote a creative nonviolent advocacyaction.Stephenhascontributed twochapterstothisresource.
SafeguardingtheIntegrityofCreationThe Keep Hope Alive Olive PlantingCampaign is coordinated by theJointAdvocacyInitiativeoftheEastJerusalemYMCA\YWCA andAlternative TourismGroup(ATG).Thisyear12,000olivetreesaplings were funded by internationaldonors. In February, Stephen helpedplant 800 olive trees on four farmsthreatened by Israeli settlementexpansion and land confiscation. Thesetrees will provide vulnerable familieswithasustainableincome. ForthcomingPeacemakingInitiativesThese include invitations to lecture at theological seminaries andchurches in the USA, Iran and South Sudan; teaching a module at
Kagera DiocesanTheological School inRwanda; giving a seminaron peacemaking at the BetLahem Live Festival inBethlehem; and helping topromote the Christiancommunity in Palestine atSpringHarvest.
