Children's Advocacy Committee
This Justice & Peace/Children's Advocacy Committee page is designed as a resource to help Episcopal congregations, groups, and individuals in the Diocese of Northern Michigan, explore ways they can use their gifts in collaboration with others (locally and worldwide), to be advocates for justice and peace in the name of Christ.
We share in the vision of Jubilee 2000, which seeks the transformation of God’s creation through peaceful cooperation of all Christians (indeed, all persons of goodwill) as we bear witness to our Baptismal Covenant in our homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Our mission is to build a just and peaceful global community. Our challenge, as Steven Charleston reminds us in his comments on Jubilee 2000, "will be to cross the old frontiers of our own prejudice to find new partners in building a just and peaceful global community." This webpage is one vital way of living into our vision and mission in this diocese of building a just and peaceful global community.
Arun Gandhi speaks at Bay College, May 7, 2003
ACTIVITIES OF THE CHILDREN'S
ADVOCACY COMMITTEE: Support St. Michael's Primary School in South Africa St. Michael's Primary School in Khayelitsha, South Africa is working hard to
make the dream of going to school a reality for impoverished children in their
community. For many children in Khayelitsha, St. Michael's Primary School has
provided a vital opportunity for a brighter future. Your generosity in the past has helped many children attend school. In an area
in which unempolyment rates hover at 70%, the majority of parents in
Khayelitsha, despite their desire to send thier children to school, are often
unable to pay the govenment mandated fee for schooling. As a result, the
students of St. Michael's depend upon scholarships made possible by your
generosity. A scholarship fund was begun by Margaret Sottile in 2001 to aid in the mission
of St. Michael's Church to establish St. Michael's Primary School. It is this
fund that offers us an opportunity to help the children of Khayelitsha. Now the
Children's Advocacy/Peace and Justice Committee is continuing work of Margaret
Sottile to raise money for the Nothern Michigan Scholarship Fund at St.
Michael's Primary School. Please support St. Michael's by sponsoring a scholarship as you have in past
years by donating to the Scholarship Fund. $70 dollars per scholarship is an
amazingly small amount of money for a year of schooling. Over the past three
years we have sent over $3600 to support St. Michael's Primary School. The
smiling faces of the children who are provided a quality education by your
support, are worth more than any of us could possibly imagine. Please contribute by sending a check payable to:
The Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan (in the memo line write St. Michael's
Primary School), 131 East Ridge Street, Marquette, MI 49855. Please send donations in by March 1, 2006. Thank you in advance for your gift. Rayford Links Episcopal Public Policy
Network: www.episcopalchurch.org/eppn/index.asp Episcopal Peace Fellowship:
Compassionate Listening
Project (dedicated
to Jewish-Palestinian Buddhist Peace Fellowship American Friends Service
Committee Mennonite Central Committee Pax Christi International The Fellowship of Reconciliation Amnesty International
(Updates as of February 2005 with photographs.)
Peace and Justice in the Episcopal Church: www.episcopalchurch.org/peace-justice
Please join the Episcopal Policy Peace Network
www.episcopalpeacefellowship.org
reconciliation) www.mideastdiplomacy.org
http://www.bpf.org/html/home.html
http://www.afsc.org/
http://www.mcc.org/
http://www.paxchristi.net/
http://www.forusa.org/
http://www.amnesty.org/
http://www.peacemakersguide.org/