Peace and Global Witness Special Offering

Isaiah 55:12- For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace

The prophet Isaiah invites us to imagine God’s peace in unlikely places. The football stadium, bars and nightclubs, houses of questionable character and the homeless taking shelter under overpasses. When we look around our world these days, it sometimes hard to feel joyful. Yet joy is the companion of faith and hope. In our troubled world torn by war, famine, pandemics, and marginalization of the poor and disfranchised. We might ask ourselves how can we led forth in peace.

The Peace and Global Witness Offering connects us with each other. As the church together, we can confront systems of injustice and promote reconciliation in places around the world and right here in the community in which we find ourselves.

Traditionally, the Peace and Global Witness Offering is an annual offering received on World Communion Sunday, the first Sunday in October. 50% of this Offering supports the work for peace and reconciliation being done by Presbyterian Church U.S.A. around the world; 25% of this Offering goes to support Presbytery of Greater Atlanta peacemaking work within its boundary; and 25% of this Offering stays right here at Hillside Presbyterian Church to support peacemaking and reconciliation in our own community.

Right here in the Hillside community, celebrate the joy the Social Mission Outreach Mission Initiative (SMOM) has made by assisting with research, without cost, so that the invisible can become visible receiving ID cards and/or Birth Certificates.

For every $1,000 given to the Peace and Global Witness Offering, $250 stay right here at Hillside to provide services that being joy to brothers and sisters in need such as  supporting the food pantry with things food stamps do not cover: diapers, shampoo, laundry soap, toilet paper, personal hygiene products, etc.

Ways to Give

• Via US mail addressed to the church: 1879 Columbia Drive, Decatur, GA 30032 

• On- line using Hillside’s web link: PCUSA Special Offering/Peace & Global  Witness

• Bringing your offering to the church office. Call (404) 289-3092) before you come 

• Donate by credit card online at pcusa.org/peace-global or text PCUSAPEACE to 41444 naming Hillside as the recipient. PCUSA will credit Hillside

Thanks be to God. If we all do a little, it adds up to lot.

Submitted by Elder Alice Moore