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Friends,

Will you be attending the 219th General Assembly this July? The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship will be there! We will be hosting the Peace Breakfast, giving testimony in committee hearings, and staffing one of the busiest booths in the exhibit hall. If you will be there as a commissioner, advisory delegate, overture advocate, official participant of any type, or observer, please let us know. Send an email to ga@presbypeacefellowship.org. If you can not join us in Minneapolis, please forward this enews to friends who might be attending.

The General Assembly Arrangements Team
Peggy Howland, Shannan Vance-Ocampo, Christine Caton, MaryAnn Harwell, Marilyn White, Jan Orr-Harter

Do you have your tickets yet? You want to be sure to get them and not to miss out on this great opportunity to gather at General Assembly with leading peacemakers in our denomination and beyond!

"Faith, Conscience, and War"
Wednesday July 7, 2010
6:45am at the Hilton Minneapolis
1001 Marquette Avenue South

Speaker: Camilo Mejía, President of Iraq Veterans Against the War
Peaceseeker Awards: 2009 to Bill Galvin for work with Conscientious Objectors
2010 to Mel Duncan, co-founder of Nonviolent Peaceforce

Click here for information on ordering tickets. Deadline to order by mail is June 24. Deadline for online ticket sales on the PC(USA) website is June 14.

E-mail inquiries to Shannan Vance-Ocampo at svanceocampo@yahoo.com

Attention Commissioners and Advisory Delegates: The 2010 General Assembly has a large number of peacemaking issues on its agenda. We have prepared short briefing papers that we hope will be helpful to Committees 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14. We also have a general review of peacemaking issues. Please see the GA section of our website for a copy of these useful guides to the committee business dockets. Send us an email to let us know about your committee assignment and let us know how we can support your important work.

PPF needs and welcomes volunteers for our General Assembly witness. Can you help with set up and hosting for the Peace Breakfast? Can you run errands or provide other assistance for our exhibit hall booth staff?

We especially need volunteers for our peacemaking advocacy work in six committees on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. If you are willing to provide a two-minute witness to the importance of peacemaking initiatives related to Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, or the future direction of peacemaking in the church, then we can assist you with talking points and help coordinate your testimony with other advocates. We are also looking for observers to track the work of these six committees. If you have a couple of hours or if you have a couple of days to follow the work of a committee, then we urge you to join our GA advocacy team.

Our GA press coordinator, Jan Orr-Harter, welcomes volunteer help to document PPF activities throughout the week with photos, video, and short articles.

To volunteer at GA, please email ga@presbypeacefellowship.org today.

We have invited several outstanding peace leaders to join us in the exhibit hall during the week. Please come meet them and join the discussion!

Booth #631 in the Exhibit Hall

Monday, July 5 2:00 PM
"Heeding God's Call: Preventing Gun Violence in the US"
Rick Ufford-Chase, Executive Director of Peace Fellowship

Tuesday, July 6 10:00 AM
"The Face of Accompaniment in Colombia: New Directions and Opportunities for Ministry"
Shannan Vance-Ocampo, Director of Colombia Programs and Sarah Henken, Former Accompaniment Coordinator

Tuesday, July 6 2:30 PM
"A Ministry of Conscience: Working with Conscience Objectors"
Bill Galvin, 2009 Peaceseeker Award Recipient and Counseling Coordinator at the Center on Conscience and War

Wednesday, July 7 10:00 To 11:00 AM
Dialogue with the Peace Breakfast Speaker on "Faith, Conscience, and War"
Camilo Mejía, President of Iraq Veterans Against the War and author of the book, Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejía

Wednesday, July 7 2:00 PM
"Nonviolent Peaceforce: Building an Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping Force"
Mel Duncan, 2010 Peaceseeker Honoree and Co-Founder of Nonviolent Peaceforce

*Please Check At The PPF Booth For Updates On This Schedule.