This guide will walk you through sharing available materials and some effective ways to participate in and celebrate the Christmas Joy Offering. We encourage you to add your own ideas, creativity, and enthusiasm to help increase awareness and giving in your congregation.
Use this poster to promote the Christmas Joy Offering in your congregation. This Advent and Christmas season, we celebrate the gift of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. By giving to the Christmas Joy Offering, we recognize the indescribable gift God has given us in Jesus Christ and also in the leaders within our church.
When two separate tragedies struck Rev. John Scotland’s family, the Assistance Program of the Board of Pensions was able to help with critical financial needs. Your gifts to the Christmas Joy Offering enable this to happen.
A generation apart, both Lemuel Garcia-Arroyo and his nephew Jasiel Hernandez found their calling to Christian leadership while attending Presbyterian Pan American School (Pan Am). Your gifts to Christmas Joy help make it possible for students to learn and grow in faith at Presbyterian-related racial ethnic schools and colleges.
A generation apart, both Lemuel Garcia-Arroyo and his nephew Jasiel Hernandez found their calling to Christian leadership while attending Presbyterian Pan American School (Pan Am). Your gifts to Christmas Joy help make it possible for students to learn and grow in faith at Presbyterian-related racial ethnic schools and colleges.
When two separate tragedies struck Rev. John Scotland’s family, the Assistance Program of the Board of Pensions was able to help with their critical financial needs. Your gifts to the Christmas Joy Offering enable this to happen. Gifts to the Christmas Joy Offering help current and retired church workers and their families navigate difficult financial circumstances. Your gift will make a difference.
After devoting his life to the Presbyterian Church and “the least of these,” Rev. Forsberg received assistance grants enabling him to receive high-quality memory care in familiar surroundings near family. Gifts to the Christmas Joy Offering help current and retired church workers and their families navigate difficult financial circumstances. Your gift will make a difference.
Download and use this image to encourage your members to pick up a Presbyterian Giving Catalog, especially around gift giving holidays. These small gifts create big impact for people all over the world.
The five affirmations that frame the Risking Peace report come out of a discernment process begun in 2010 that involved about 100 congregations and presbyteries. The affirmations increase the PCUSA’s teaching of nonviolence for social transformation, while also recognizing how implicated most US citizens are in structural violence (the “isms”) and the violence of several long-term wars. The report includes a careful reassessment of Jesus’ nonviolence in relation to the Reformed tradition, Just War, and Just Peacemaking approaches. It is recommended for congregations renewing their commitments to peacemaking in light of the increase in military and surveillance activity and spending …
These five affirmations were approved by the 22nd General Assembly (2016) to guide the peacemaking work of the Presbyterian Church (USA). They celebrate and build upon the foundational document “Peacemaking the Believers’ Calling," that initiated the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and the annual Peace and Global Witness Offering. The Five Affirmations also concluded a 6-year denomination-wide Peace Discernment Process. The report of the Peace Discernment Steering Team, “Risking Peace," is also available.