Presbyterian Peace Fellowship - Calling for a global ceasefire, growing virtual community

PPF Weekend Digest Dear friends, It has been about two months since we began these Weekend Digest emails, right at the beginning of so many changes due to Covid-19. We're glad these emails have started to be a constant - and we've been heartened to hear that so many are appreciating them. These two months have been filled with grief, fear, loneliness, and also some hopeful glimmers of new ways of being. We hope our newsletters have helped you find some measures of comfort, community, and good ways to connect for action during this time. Sign our petition calling on the PC(USA) to join the call for a global ceasefire in the face of Covid-19. Learn more about PPF Peace Churches and how to become one or get connected to the Peace Church community. Register now for our Pentecost Bible Study with Robyn Henderson Espinoza, PhD, author of Activist Theology, on Monday 5/25. Last call to share your interest in the book selection for our next Virtual Book Clubs. 70+ of you have weighed in! We're hosting our first-ever Virtual Accompaniment Training Series throughout the summer. In six 90-minute sessions, we will discuss accompaniment as a practice, contexts of accompaniment in Colombia and Agua Prieta, power analysis and antiracist practice, and more. Limited to 15 participants. Register here. Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) is hosting two powerful webinars: Commemorate by Resisting: The Nakba and Indigenous Struggles - Saturday 5/16, 12:00pm EST Tied in a Single Garment of Destiny: Black Christian Reflections on Palestine - Thursday 5/16 - 6:00pm EST Frontera de Cristo is hosting virtual Coffee, Compassion and Conversation gatherings throughout the next month. Check them out and order Cafe de Justo -- which supports Covid-19 relief efforts in Agua Prieta. The Poor People's Campaign has taken all of their organizing online - growing their powerful movement for a moral response to coronavirus. "Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it." - Arundati Roy Presbyterian Peace Fellowship 845-786-6743 | presbypeacefellowship.org Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

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