Peace and Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church USA
http://peace.MennoLink.org

 

PJSN peace gathering was popular part of Charlotte 2005

The 2005 PJSN national peace gathering was incorporate into the national assembly of Mennonite Church USA, Can't Keep Quiet, at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, July 4-9, 2005.

Photos!

Photographs of this even are now available online. Photos by Michael J. Smith and Leonard Nolt

Downloads:

flyer (57k PDF)

Proclaiming truth and healing: A Charlotte Public Witness

Read more about the Public Witness, July 6-7

Download brochure about the Public Witness (70k PDF)

Speaking to Government

Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly
J. Daryl Byler and John D. Roth
July 6, 2005
http://www.mennoniteusa.org/NewItems/delegates/Speakinggovernment0705.pdf

Statement on the war in Iraq

Adopted by the general assembly
http://www.mennoniteusa.org/NewItems/delegates/IraqstatementCharlotte0705.pdf

Peace Pitcher Award

PJSN leaders announced that Lawrence Hart, pastor of Koinonia Mennonite Church and executive director of the Cheyenne Cultural Center, both in Clinton, Okla., will receive the pitcher, which is presented every two years to recipients who have devoted their lives to peace and justice. The presentation will be at 6:45 p.m. July 8 in the South Carolina Hall of the Hilton Hotel.

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Hart finds purple in red and white