About Us
The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship is all about taking action to reduce violence in the world. The people who get involved in our work need to be ready to follow Jesus into the same kind of risk, daring, and potentially life-threatening work that got his earliest followers into so much trouble. We’re about a positive, gospel-centered vision of peace. When genuine peace seems distant, we’re called to increase our faithfulness. When weariness seems to overtake us, we’re called to lift one another up and to continue our quest for the elusive reign of God.
A few years ago, PPF's National Committee gathered for a retreat at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee to imagine what a new Peace Fellowship would look like. Almost ten years later, much of what we dreamed is becoming a reality. Here’s what we wrote:
The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship is a national community of Presbyterians who trust in the nonviolent Jesus Christ. We call forth and celebrate prophetic action by individuals and by our denomination in the search for alternatives to violence, exploitation, militarism and war. Through the decades, across generations and in the changing circumstances of history, this is our trust and our task.
The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship is an activist group. Our purposes are these:
- To be agents of change in the world according to the words of Christ Jesus: "Blessed are the peacemakers."
- To be a witness within the Presbyterian Church USA to the vocation of active, nonviolent peacemaking, which we believe is the true calling of Christ's church.
- To join with other nonviolent groups in taking concrete actions to further the cause of peace in particular trouble-spots.
We need you right now to help us take on the big challenges in the world:
- Become a volunteer “accompanier” for a month or more in Colombia, supporting the bold witness for human rights of our Colombian Church colleagues
- Join the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq as we build an authentic, Jesus-centered movement to end the war in Iraq and promote genuine security through right relationships
- Sign the Pledge for Peace, as a leader or a lay-person, to take uncompromising action for peace as we stand firmly against the so-called “war on terrorism”
- Join one of our delegations to help us explore how the PPF should become partners and accompaniers in the midst of difficult conflict around the world
- Get involved in our efforts to do counter-military recruitment on high school and college campuses around the country
- Help us to close the School of the Americas (WHINSEC) and to stand against all military institutions that blur the distinctions between counter-insurgency and democracy building, between torture and interrogations
