Category: PEACE WITH THE CREATOR

Spiritual Transformation

JOJI NOW SERVES AS CHAIR OF MWC PEACE COMMISSION

  Joji accepted her new responsibility as chair of the Peace Commission of the Mennonite World Conference during its 2015 Global Assembly in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.   The Peace Commission offers MWC member churches a wide array of support: enabling talk about the peace issues facing individual churches, countries and continents; providing a conversation forum …

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PAR KALINGA HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN, AND IT’S GROWING!

PAR Kalinga: Harmony with the Creator, with our being, with others, and with the creation What’s happening within and around the Kalinga Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Community has been a long time harmonization of the various aspirations and works of individuals, clans, and tribes who are faithful to pursue their struggle for liberation based on …

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CHRISTIAN LEADERS HELD A SUMMIT MEETING FOR PEACE

Statement of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform OUR CONTINUING CRY AND HOPE FOR PEACE “But those who hope for the LORD will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (Isaiah 40:31 NIV) We are the Philippine Ecumenical Peace …

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PCEC PEACE AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION IS RE-ORGANIZED

The Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Commission of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) had their strategic planning last June 23-26, 2015, at the Center for Christian Development, Tagaytay City. As a result of this four-day workshop, we came up with a Peace and Reconciliation Vision for 2020, stated in the present tense: Peace Revolution. …

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MOTHERS OF SLAIN SOLDIERS TRAIN FOR SOAP-MAKING

Usually, when we give this kind of training, the participants say it is for additional income. But this time, it becomes therapeutic. It is our first time to hear from participants that they want to learn soapmaking so that they have something else to do instead of wallowing in their grief. In them, I have …

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DEALING WITH FELLOW CHRISTIAN LEADERS OPPOSING THE BBL

BBL is Bangsamoro Basic Law. It is a product of the final peace deal between the Philippine government and the the Moro Islamic Liberation Front; it seeks to address decades-old grievances by creating a new regional government with greater fiscal and political powers than the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In the past 25 days, I …

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A UNIVERSITY INVITED US TO HELP THEM ESTABLISH A PAR CENTER

Peacebuilders Community, Inc. was invited by Central Mindanao University (CMU) as consultant for Proposal Writing for Peace Process last April 28-29, 2015. The said activity was participated by selected professors who are members of Mt. Kalayo Institute for Social Enterprise Growth (MKESEG). CMU decided to have this kind of workshop because they believed that the …

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OUR GLOBAL PEACE COMMUNITY

We are sent by Mennonite Church Canada Witness in partnership with our international community.