Photo credit: Mennonite Action
ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Church USA) — MC USA Administration has awarded Mennonite Action an unrestricted $10,000 grant from the Church Peace Tax Fund. Mennonite Action is an independent, grass roots movement of Mennonites taking public action to stop war and end the occupation of Palestine.
Adam Ramer, organizer of Mennonite Action, said, “Mennonite Action is grateful to receive the Church Peace Tax Fund grant from MC USA. This grant will allow Mennonite Action to invest in local organizing efforts and grow our movement for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and a lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis. We look forward to continuing to work alongside MC USA in our journey for peace and justice inspired by a liberatory theology of love for all of God’s children.”
The Church Peace Tax Fund is an MC USA initiative that reinforces the denomination’s role as a historic peace church by reinvigorating the collective voice against the destructive powers of militarism in our congregations, communities and beyond. It provides financial resources for:
- Educational programs that address militarism and promote living out ways of peace.
- The Bring the Peace recognition program, which honors a Legacy Peacemaker and a Young Peacemaker each year.
- Grants for war tax resisters.
- Peaceful Options for Training and Careers (POTC), an independent initiative formed by MC USA and Mennonite Central Committee that helps young adults find non-military career, service and training opportunities.
“The Church Peace Tax Fund is a tangible way to support the church’s peace mission and is a witness to the good news of Jesus Christ in our world,” said Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, MC USA denominational minister of Peace and Justice. “We want to support the work Mennonite Action has taken through bold, public actions in their call to stop war and this fund provides a way to do that,” she added.
Please join us in building peace by supporting MC USA’s Peace & Justice work. Feel free to designate your gifts specifically to the Church Peace Tax Fund or POTC, as you feel led. Give here.
Checks can also be mailed to Mennonite Church USA, 718 N. Main Street, Newton, KS 67114. Please note “Executive Board Peace & Justice” in the memo line.
Mennonite Church USA is an Anabaptist Christian denomination, founded in 2002 by the merger of the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church. Members of this historic peace church seek to follow Jesus by rejecting violence and resisting injustice. MC USA’s Renewed Commitments state the following shared commitments among its diverse body of believers: to follow Jesus, witness to God’s peace and experience the transformation of the Holy Spirit. Mennoniteusa.org
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Written by Christle Hain.