Peace and Social Justice Alliance
Peace and Social Justice Alliance at CMUC works to advance the principles asserted on our website:
- We are called to reveal and realize the Kin(g)dom of God and by God’s grace to evolve in our understanding of what peace means and how it manifests through us, individually and collectively.
- We collaborate with other Peace organizations in service to humanity and all of creation, faithful to the Spirit of Christ.
- We approach the call with a focus on peace at the individual, local, national and world levels, balancing study, prayer and meditation on Peace with active works in support of Peace. We believe that peace is not possible without universal and enduring social justice.
- Currently, we are providing monthly peace-focused activities for those who wish to connect their mind to their personal heartfelt emotion through their hands. Please bring your own snacks.
February 21st - Banner for Peace – in Youth Room at noon.
All are welcome to design their own message for Peace on fabric strips that Mary-Lou will sew together into a large Peace banner.We will provide buttons, fabric pens and glitter.
Peace car flags & t-shirt sales at coffee.
March 7th- Being Instruments for Peace – noon to 2.
Make a shaker or decorate a rain stick to the mellow sounds of Rachel’s harp and arousing drum beats of John Peters. If you’d like to recycle coffee tins, cardboard tubes, chopsticks or
any music maker you can think of, please bring them along!
April 11th – Weave Prayers for Peace - with storytellers!
Great Hall at noon. The Prayer Team will lead Prayers as knitters knit prayer shawls. There will be a time to listen to personal stories. Please bring a lunch and stay on with us for an hour or so.
April 24th – Gathering Peaces in Times of Change
by Susan McCaslin and Penn Kemp, poets, educators & activists. Saturday free public poetry reading (1–2pm) followed by a workshop on Peace at a nominal fee of $20. In Susan’s words,
“After working with Peace poems old and new, we will write our own Peace poems forging a revitalized imaginingof Peace for today’s world.” Website: http://www.susanmccaslin.ca
Sign up for workshop soon as there are only 25 spots.
May 28th – Friday night Dance for Peace! All ages!
May 29th- Peace Building Day at Center!
Mark your calendars! Stay tuned!
We are also assuming a leadership role for Vancouver in the Canadian Peace Department Imitative that is striving to establish a cabinet level position in Ottawa that “would advance an agenda for a new architecture of peace by supporting and establishing activities that promote a culture of peace and assertive non-violence in Canada and the world.”
www.departmentofpeace.ca/overview. We also join the wider church in our support of the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and worldwide nuclear disarmament.
The Alliance meets the last Sunday of each month to study, learn and consider peace initiatives and actions. We invite all of those who feel called to join us in this realization of the principles of peace and social justice to come.