Invite your congregation to financially support PJSN!

Mennonite Church USA Peace and Justice Support Network needs support from both individuals and congregations. Please invite your congregation to designate funds for PJSN!

When you encourage a donation to PJSN from your congregation, include this information:

	The peace and justice work of Mennonite Church USA is funded by grants from Mennonite Mission Network and Executive Leadership along with designated contributions from PJSN contributors.
	Your donations to PJSN make resource creation and distribution possible, newsletters, PeaceSigns, Spread the Peace grants, peace gatherings, follow up on Mennonite Church USA resolutions and much more.
	Congregations have various ways of donating: special offering (perhaps on Peace Sunday), budget line item, Sunday school class offering, etc. Suggest a method most likely to succeed in your congregation.

Here are some helps:

	For free PJSN bulletin inserts/giving envelopes, contact
	Bulletin inserts about the work of PJSN        - PJSN (89k PDF)
	Peace offering family activity (167k PDF)
	Peace Sunday offering poster (234k PDF)

Ways to increase your congregation's understanding of PJSN needs:

	Create a bulletin board with PJSN information from this web site. - http://peace.mennolink.org/staff.html - http://peace.mennolink.org/committee.html - http://peace.mennolink.org/clipart.html#clipart
	Distribute PJSN bulletin inserts (89k PDF) the week before.
	Spend a few minutes during your worship service explaining the work and needs of PJSN.
	Distribute copies of a PJSN publication.
	Encourage people to sign up for FREE! PJSN publications Download sign up sheet (367k PDF)

Some congregations use part of their peace and justice offering for local work. Your congregation might want to:

	Build a community Peace Park.
	Send a congregational team to the next PJSN Peace Gathering.
	Send a member of your congregation on a Christian Peacemaker Team delegation or MCC learning tour.
	Purchase pizza for the evenings you teach peacemaking to your youth group.
	Stock your high school with counter-recruitment materials (Contact ).
	Contribute to peace agencies in your community.
	Purchase reusable dishes for your fellowship meals.
	Begin a community garden.
	Purchase peace books for local public libraries.
	Create a worship space for praying for peace around the world.
	Purchase peace book wraps for your local schools.
	Do an energy audit of your church facilities.
	Start a local mediation or victim-offender reconciliation program.
	Organize a violent toys trade-in.