Members and Friends of the Pentecostal Peace Fellowship have been invited to attend a Decade to Overcome Violence event from the National Council of Churches.  The World Council of Churches named 2001-2010 as the Decade to Overcome Violence with the focus of 2004 as the United States.  To learn more visit: http://www.overcomingviolence.org/peace2004

To register for the conference visit the site above.

"We wish to invite you to attend the National Council of Churches Faith and
Order Commission's "Christology and Peace Consultation" on Sunday, October
17, in Pasadena, California.  This is one of our contributions to the World
Council of Churches Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) as it focuses on the
U.S. in 2004.

The agenda of the Consultation will include an introductioni to the DOV by
Dr. Deenabandhu Manchala (Programme Executive, WCC Faith and Order office,
Geneva, Switzerland), several major papers and shorter responses, closing
with time for discussion.  Presenters and topics include:  new work on
Christology by Mennonite theologian Dr. J. Denny Weaver (Bluffton College);
a paper by Fr. Arthur Kennedy (Executive Director, Secretariat for
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops)
drawing upon the relationship between peace and Christology in Gaudium et
Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World of the
Second Vatican Council; a presentation on Womanist thought on the
relationship between Christology and intimate violence against persons; and
a response by Dr. George Hunsinger (Presbyterian at Princeton Theological
Seminary), Dr. Glen Stassen (Baptist at Fuller Theological Seminary), and a
Greek Orthodox respondent. "

From: Ann K. Riggs
Associate General Secretary for Faith and Order
National Council of Churches of Christ in USA