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:

	Your personal endorsement of PJSN work and vision. WHY do you think it important that your congregation be involved?
	PJSN is self-supporting and doesn't directly receive funding from our agencies
	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:

	Bulletin inserts about the work of PJSN        - PJSN (422k PDF)
	Peace offering family activity (384k PDF)
	Peace Sunday offering poster (375k 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 (422k 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. Contact Leo Hartshorn for multiple copies.
	Encourage people to sign up for FREE! PJSN publications Download sign up sheet (7k 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 Peace Gathering.
	Save up to purchase the new Second Mile resources.
	Send a member of your congregation on a Christian Peacemaker Team delegation.
	Purchase pizza for the evenings you teach peacemaking to your youth group.
	Stock your high school with counter-recruitment materials.
	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 and teacher packets 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.

(See our website or contact staff for more information.)