Joining Hands

The Joining Hands Initiative mobilizes people in focused campaigns to tackle systemic causes of hunger in the United States and abroad. 

Presbyteries and congregations work within a denominational coalition and alongside marginalized people in six countries. These coalitions include churches, nonprofit organizations, community groups, and members of other faith traditions. Rather than replicate project-based mission, the goal of Joining Hands is to organize together in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres to campaign for peaceful social change in a globalized world. 

Most of the issues identified by global partners as contributing to poverty abroad are also relevant in the United States. This effort is not about going somewhere else to do mission. Instead, we look together at the immense troubles we all face on a small planet and pull together in prayer, research, repentance, and in a process of mutual transformation by together building a more peaceful and just world.