The Commitment to Peacemaking helps Presbyterians engage individually and collectively in peacemaking ministries by making a public commitment. Sessions, presbyteries, synods, Presbyterian Women's groups, colleges, seminaries, and other groups make a public commitment to include seeking peace and justice as part of their discipleship and mission. The Commitment suggests eight ways to engage in peacemaking.

Download the Commitment

The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, along with its many partners in ministry, provides a variety of resources to help Presbyterians live out the Commitment in each of these areas:

• Worship
• Prayer and Bible study
• Peacemaking in families and congregations
• Community ministries
• Study and response to global issues
• Global security
• Making peace with the Earth
• Receiving the Peacemaking Offering

Worship

Provide worship that points to the reality of God's peace giving.

• Worship Resources
• Worship Resources for the Peacemaking Offering
• Spiritual Nurture for Peacemakers
• Peacemaking and Social Justice in the Directory for Worship

Prayer and Bible study

Encourage prayer, Bible study, and spiritual disciplines that nurture and deepen the spiritual life of the community and equip people to share the gospel message of peace to the world.

• Biblical Basis for Peacemaking
• Spiritual Nurture for Peacemakers
• Bible Studies Using Eric Law's Community Bible Study Process
• Power: A Bible Study of Mark 9:33-35

Peacemaking in families and in the congregation

Create opportunities for people of all ages to develop peacemaking skills such as conflict resolution, mediation, or nonviolence training that will help them grow as peacemakers in their families, in the congregation, and in the community.

• Pastoral Care for Those Serving in the Military and Their Families
• Decade of the Child
• Washington Office Women and Families Network
• Guidelines for Presbyterians in Times of Disagreement
• Institute for Peace and Justice

Community ministries

Work with and support ecumenical and interfaith partners and other bodies in their pursuit of social, racial, and economic justice, to confront racism and all other forms of prejudice, and to respond to people in communities, local, national, and worldwide, who are caught in poverty, hurt by unemployment, or burdened by other problems.

• Examples of Presbyteries Doing Peacemaking
• World Council of Churches' Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace
• Office of Racial Justice Ministry
• Interfaith Listening Project
• PC(USA) Office for Ecumenical Relations
• PC(USA) Office for Interfaith Relations
• Washington Office Civil Rights and Religious Liberties Network
• Washington Office Health Care Network
• Washington Office Hunger and Human Needs Network

Study and response to global issues

Support human rights and economic justice efforts in at least one area of the world through presbytery partnerships and sister countries.

• Presbyterian United Nations Office
• International Peacemakers

Additional resources on:

• Colombia
• Haiti
• Iraq
• Korea
• Israel/Palestine
• Enough for Everyone
• Presbyterian Hunger Program
• International Health Ministries
• Washington Office Africa Network
• Washington Office Asia Pacific Network
• Washington Office Latin America Network
• Washington Office Middle East Network

Global security

Study global security concerns, work for worldwide arms control, and support alternatives to military solutions to international and civil conflicts.

• Presbyterian United Nations Office
• Washington Office Global Security Network
• Living Faithfully in a Global Arena: Heresy and United States Foreign Policy

Additional resources on

• Disarmament
• Land Mines

Making peace with the Earth

Protect and restore the environment through study, advocacy, and individual and corporate lifestyle commitments.

• PC(USA) Office of Environmental Justice
• Washington Office Ecology and Environment Network

Receiving the Peacemaking Offering

Support financially the churchwide peacemaking effort by receiving the Peacemaking Offering and through other means.

• Peacemaking Offering Resources
• Extra Commitment Opportunities