Peace & Global Witness Offering – Oct. 2

:  On Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 (World Communion Sunday) our congregation will participate in the Peace & Global Witness special offering.  In many locations around the world, peace is just a hope due to conflicts between nations, people and ideas.  Our gifts to this special offering will work to address these problems through missions, work projects and education as Presbyterians engaged in ministries of peace and reconciliation witness to the peace of Christ around the world.  Additionally, 25% of this offering is retained by the congregation to be used in support of local responses to peace and global witness.  Our portion of the offering will go to the Tucker office of New American Pathways – affiliated with the national resettlement agencies Church World Service (CWS) and Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) – which serves refugees, persons granted asylum, human trafficking victims, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) cases and low-income immigrants.  Refugees enter the U.S. legally and are on track to become U.S. citizens in five years.