MUG SOMEONE FOR PEACE!

Honor a leader in peace and justice with a PJSN peace mug.

The Peace and Justice Support Network would like to encourage Mennonite Church USA congregational and conference peace centers and committees to affirm and promote the work of peace and justice in your local area by honoring someone with a lifelong commitment to peace and justice by awarding them a peace mug. PJSN has commissioned potter Dick Lehman to create peace mugs, which we want to make available to centers and committees for such an event. Your financial support of PJSN has made it possible for us to offer these mugs as gifts.

Peace and justice groups can call for nominations from their constituency asking for persons who:

	have been involved in peace and justice work for a long period of time;
	have worked at educating, advocating, organizing for peace, justice, reconciliation and community building;
	have modeled a Christian lifestyle of peace and justice;
	have been a founder or leader of a church or community peace and justice organization;
	should be publicly recognized for their ongoing work

Then, plan a special meeting to award the peace mug. Guidelines to follow:

	Present the peace mug at a public meeting, preferably at your conference's annual meeting. The larger the meeting the more people will be inspired for their own peace and justice work. If the mug cannot be presented at the conference annual meeting consider a presentation at a community banquet or a public meeting or worship service sponsored by your peace and justice group.
	Make sure a photo is taken, which can be put in the conference newsletter or wider Mennonite publications. In the caption please give an explanation of the work the person has done and a note that the mug comes as a gift from Peace and Justice Support Network.
	Send PJSN a photo and a story on the person you awarded the peace mug and we will put it on our web site.

The awarding of a peace mug will not only honor those who have worked long and hard in peace and justice, but will serve to encourage others to continue in their local and global work.

Read a story of one example of one recipient from the New York Conference

Read another example of the 2004 recipient from the Atlantic Coast Conference

And another story of the 2005 award from the Atlantic Coast Conference

To request a peace mug to award to someone in your area, send us the following information for consideration:

	Name of the Mennonite Church USA related peace and justice committee or center and the congregation, conference, or region of your group;
	Name, address, phone number of the contact person;
	When, where, why, and on what occasion you plan to award the peace mug;
	When you need the peace mug by.

Send your requests for a peace mug to:

Leo Hartshorn
Minister of Peace and Justice
Mennonite Mission Network
202 South Ann Street
Lancaster, PA 17602
717-399-8353