We received a short update from Lina, our Youth and Young Adult Board Member in Cali, Colombia. Please pray for peace. Pray for no more deaths. Pray for justice for the people of Colombia.
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Since April 28, thousands of people in Colombia have taken to the streets to protest against the tax reform of President Iván Duque. In response, the government decreed a curfew and sent military force to arrest the protesters.
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The board and staff of BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz are deeply disturbed by the violence against protesters and denounce the bloodshed happening by the Colombian State against its people.
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BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz celebrates the support given to 15 projects for peace and justice during this year’s Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz grant cycle. The Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz was established in 2018 and empowers small, grassroots groups around the world doing the work of peacemaking on a local or regional level.
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Last year, women, girls and allies all across Mexico took to the streets to engage in massive demonstrations to raise awareness about the violence against women and girls in the country. At our most recent BPFNA board meeting, Vice President Veró Garibay-Bravo shared an update on what's currently happening with the women's movement in 2021.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who gives to support our work of gathering, equipping and mobilizing peacemakers throughout the world. Your generosity changes —and even saves—lives. If you’d like to increase the impact of your gifts, please consider the following. Thanks for all you do to support our shared work of creating peace rooted in justice!
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Gail here on behalf of your Board of Directors of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, Bautistas por la Paz, bringing you Advent greetings, a brief year end reflection and an announcement. I don’t know about you but this whole year has felt like the season of Advent. A waiting in the dark for light to be birthed once again. So from this year-long preparation, what do we want to remember from it?
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As a pastor and person, Jim was shaped and gave expression to the vision of a just and peaceable world as championed by two of his “heroes”: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Clarence Jordan. Jim and Faithe were active supporters of the work of the Baptist Peace Fellowship-Bautista por la Paz, attending peace camp for a number of years and regularly supporting its work with their gifts.
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Founding BPFNA board member, Olive Tiller, will celebrate her 100th birthday on December 13, 2020! A life-long peace activist, she has supported BPFNA since its inception, and even before as she was active in the Baptist Pacifist Fellowship, which later transformed into the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. Olive and her late husband Carl Tiller were also the co-recipients of ABCUSA’s Dahlberg Peace Award in 1991, which recognizes those for their significant efforts in working for peace and justice over a period of time. As we celebrate this significant milestone in the life of Olive Tiller, we also remember how she helped BPFNA celebrate a historic birthday of our own almost 27 years ago. On July 5, 1994, when BPFNA celebrated 10 years as an organization, Olive gave a recorded speech to those present in Granville, OH at that year's Summer Conference. In it, Olive shares some history of BPFNA as well as her future vision for what she hopes the organization will become.
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BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz staff member Rubén David Bonilla Ramos interviews Rev. Gail Hill, president of the BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz Board of Directors, about how church life has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic. Gail is pastor of Chico First Baptist Church in Chico, CA.
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Only available in Spanish.
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(Drawing created by Cristian Hernandez). "Sister, listen! This is your fight", women who saw us pass raised their fists, chanted the slogans, followed the rhythm of the drums, cried. Weeks before, the horrendous murder of the young woman Ingrid Escamilla at the hands of her partner and the disappearance and murder of Fátima Aldrighett (five years old), along with the mishandling of the stories by the media and the authorities in both cases were triggers for the outrage of the nation. “Enough is enough”. In a country where murders are no longer news, where 3,000 women die every year just for being women, these two cases aroused outrage at impunity, disgust at dehumanization, satiety over violence and injustice of the corrupt system in which we have lived for so many years.
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The board of BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz recently completed its meeting in Puerto Rico, which was held from March 12-14. An important part of our meeting was the discussion of our transition plan to guide us through today's challenges. We share these updates so you will be informed when we invite you to provide your thoughts and participate in this process. We remain optimistic about the path ahead of us and the possibilities we see to respond to our call! We are peacemakers! Today more than ever!
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As I write to you today, I’m thankful for your sharing, your gifts, your patience, your listening, your compassion, your challenges and – maybe most of all – your prophetic vision. What you have taught me is the courage to dare to see a world where peace, equity and justice prevail. And not only see it but also work to ensure transformation moves in that direction!
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The board of directors is thrilled to announce Rev. Dr. Doris Garcia Rivera as our new Interim Executive Director!
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BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz is pleased to welcome three new members to our board of directors: Jason Smith (Arkadelphia, AR), Karen Turner (Toronto, ON) and Roxanna Wright (Philadelphia, PA). We also welcome Isai Altamirano (Mexico City, Mexico) as our newest Youth and Young Adult representative.
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Newly-elected board members include Rev. Jaime Escobar (New York, NY), Verónica Garibay-Bravo (Querétaro, México), Rev. Gail Hill (Chico, CA) and Rev. Jessica Torres-Torres (Scottsdale, AZ). We also welcome back Rev. Anita Peebles (Seattle, WA) who was elected to serve a second three-year term. We also welcome Melissa Schellinger Gutierrez as our newest Youth and Young Adult (TYAYA) Representative.
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Here we are at the end of another heart-wrenching year! Yet unlike the end of 2016, when many of us were experiencing huge amounts of disbelief, sadness and weariness at the outcome of a very contentious US political season, 2017, as difficult as it has been, has borne witness to the birth of new life for our organization in ways that we have not experienced before.
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The following report is from Asaf Vera Baltodano, member of Shalom Baptist Church, student at the Baptist Seminary in Mexico City, and the most recent Youth and Young Adult (TYAYA) representative on the BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz board of directors.
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We are pleased to welcome Asaf Vera Baltodano as the newest Youth and Young Adult Representative to the Board of Directors. Youth and Young Adult representatives are selected by and voted on by the youth and young adults each year at Summer Conference.
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