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Education Opportunities

The Center For Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Virgina provides very good practical training to people from all over the world, including many from hotspots. It is a multicultural experience to study there. You can take anything from short courses in justice and peace-building to graduate studies. One lawyer I know took a course and it completely reoriented the way he practices law. Their web address is http://www.emu.edu/cjp/

Service Opportunities

Mennonite Central Committee is a relief, community development and peace organization with some 1000 workers in 53 countries. MCC is sponsored by Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. Go to http://mcc.org/acp/ to see examples from their magazine of the work they do. Click on “Involved” at the bottom of the page to find service opportunities.




Christian Peacemaker Teams joins local partners to reduce violence through biblically based peacemaking and non-violent direct action in Iraq, Palestine, Colombia , and other places. Their address is http://www.cpt.org.




Pray (or as some say, “Lift to the Light”) friends, enemies, government leaders, situations from local to global. Most days I spend over an hour daily interceding by just reading names of people and concerns I wrote in my prayer book. I have sensed that a real connection with these people takes place in this simple practice. It has become a time of meditation for me as well.



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