Lenten offering benefits Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center
- No peace without justice
The Wesley Social Action Ministries designates Wi’am, the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center, and our partner districts in Liberia as recipients of this year’s Lenten offering. Please give generously to support these vital outreach efforts.
Wi’am (http://www.alaslah.org) is supported in part by The Advance (# 14910A), the official designated giving arm of the United Methodist Church, which ensures that 100% of each gift reaches its intended mission or ministry. In their own words, “People in Palestine are living under the shadow of stress, violence, political upheaval, hopelessness, and lack of human security. The Center helps to resolve disputes within the Palestinian community by implementing the traditional Arab form of mediation, known as Sulha, as well as Western models of conflict resolution. We provide services for women and children and seek to educate the local community on human equality and basic rights. We have been involved from the ground up in workshops, seminars, and conferences that deal with civic education, women’s issues, gender issues, democracy and human rights, dialogue of cultures and religions, nonviolence, reconciliation, and conflict resolution.”
Some of their goals include: providing healing, hope, and restoration of relationships through mediation and counseling for community and family conflicts; providing children with trauma coping skills, crisis intervention, and summer camps; providing training for 80 beneficiaries over a span of one year, who then become trainers themselves in fields of democracy, human rights, gender equality, conflict transformation, etc; and empowering and training women in gender equality and counseling.
In the next issue of the Spire, we will highlight the rebuilding work being done in Liberia, the second designee of this year’s Lenten offering.