Serve, Work and Transform: One step closer to divestment

Thursday, February 3, 2022

One step closer to divestment

On January 19, the Mission Responsibility Through Investment Committee (MRTI) voted to recommend that the denomination divest from five fossil fuel companies: Chevron, ExxonMobil, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and Valero Energy. The issue will be before the General Assembly this summer.

“Thank you for this process and for this report,” said Rev. abby mohaupt, co-moderator of Fossil Free PC(USA). “For the magnitude of the divestment that this report is calling for, we commend you. And we’re looking forward to being at GA in a way that is supportive of this report.”

Climate change is an urgent crisis and as people of faith we must do all we can to hold companies in the fossil fuel industry accountable. This MRTI report does that, and we, FFPC(USA), commend and celebrate these efforts and intend to support this recommendation when it is brought forth to the General Assembly.

Even still, Fossil Free PC(USA) remains committed to bold action on every front of the climate justice movement. As such, we will continue to push for categorical divestment from fossil fuels at the GA level, assist individual churches interested in divesting their endowments, and invest our organization's time and financial resources in supporting indigenous and front-line led direct action.

Take action for voting rights

Call upon the NFL to move Super Bowl LVII in 2023 from Arizona and refuse to invest in states that intend to limit access to the ballot.

In 1991, the NFL moved the Super Bowl from Tempe to Pasadena, California for the 1993 game over Arizona’s refusal to recognize Martin Luther King Jr Day.

PPF Activist Council Member, Rev. Bart Smith, recently participated in a hunger strike for voting rights and asks alongside over 200 other faith leaders in their letter to Mr. Goodell: “We ask that you take the same action for Super Bowl LVII."

Read coverage of their action in The Independent.

Add your name to the letter

Peaceseeker Nominations are open

PPF is receiving nominations for the 2022 Peaceseeker Award.

The purpose of this award is to give well-deserved recognition to those who have made a serious commitment to working for justice and peace, particularly work that has influenced Presbyterians and the PC(USA).

The award is annual,

and the presentation of the award happens at the PPF Peace Breakfast during General Assembly in even years.

Prayers for the Nassar Family

From left to right, Sophia Har, Daher Nasser, Emily Brewer, and Rick Ufford-Chase at the Tent of Nations in 2017 on the Interfaith Justice for Palestine delegation.

We invite you to be in prayer for our friends, Daoud and Daher Nassar, of the Tent of Nations south of Bethlehem.

As members of the Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, the Nassar family have been leading a ministry of Christian reconciliation through their Tent of Nations camps.

Bill Plitt is a longtime friend of PPF and a Presbyterian elder. His book, The Stories I Never Knew, is about the people he met during his many visits to Palestine and Israel. Much of the book is about the story of the Tent of Nations.

You can register here for his book talk on February 7th at 1:00p ET.

PPF is sponsoring the event.