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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The following story is part of the Vocation of Peacemaking series where we asked members and friends of the BPFNA to write brief essays on their peacemaking work. Each story is a wonderful reminder that there are as many ways to live a life of peace as there are people, and that we can act for peace in real and important ways wherever we find ourselves. This essay comes from Sterling Oliver who has been a Guardian ad Litem (a court-appointed, trained volunteer who advocates for abused and neglected children) for more than four years.
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The following story is part of the Vocation of Peacemaking series where we asked members and friends of the BPFNA to write brief essays on their peacemaking work. Each story is a wonderful reminder that there are as many ways to live a life of peace as there are people, and that we can act for peace in real and important ways wherever we find ourselves. This essay comes from Tama Ward Balisky, the artistic and storytelling director of Sacred Canopy, a non-profit in Vancouver that uses storytelling to explore faith and world culture.
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This is the next essay in our Vocation of Peacemaking series, where we asked members and friends of the BPFNA to write brief essays on their peacemaking work. Each story is a wonderful reminder that there are as many ways to live a life of peace as there are people, and that we can act for peace in real and important ways wherever we find ourselves. This one comes from Rev. David Weasley, director of youth and outreach at Zion Lutheran Church and board chair of the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists.
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And a little child shall lead them! Ayden, age 9, is part of a BPFNA Partner Congregation. He shares here his reflections on participating in the Moral March in Raleigh, NC to protest recent moves of the North Carolina legislature.
