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The Junior Youth group spent Halloween Night collecting non-perishable food donations for People's City Mission.  The thirteen group members and younger siblings went door-to-door in the neighborhood around the church. 

Barb Schlegel was elected to a three-year term on the People's City Mission Board of Directors at the Assembly of Church Delegates on Thursday, October 28.  Barb is a tireless volunteer casemanager at the mission and a strong supporter of it's program. 

A pilot victim-offender mediation program for cases involving non-violent juvenile offenders is being organized by the Religious Affinity Action Group of the Human Service Federation of Lincoln, Nebraska, in cooperation with juvenile justice authorities. This kind of restorative justice program can be of tremendous benefit victims of crime as well as young offenders.

Pastor David Orr appears on Pastor Tom Barber's "Wake Up Lincoln" program, Sunday, November 2, at 8:00 a.m. on KLIN 1400 AM.  Listen to the podcast.  Pastor Tom is Executive Director of People's City Mission.

Former First Mennonite Pastor, Steve Raztlaff, presented his new book, 7 Steps to End War & Save the Planet, and led a discussion at First Mennonite Church on Thursday, October 30, at 7:00 p.m.

About the Book

Imagine a world where all creatures live in harmony with each other and with nature.  A world with clean air, potable water for all, healthy oceans, vibrant forests and stable polar ice caps.  A world in balance.  Then imagine a world without war!   Could this vision become a reality?

“Women and Islam” was the topic of a presentation by Pakistani attorney and women’s rights activist, Shamsa Ali, at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28, at Northeast United Church of Christ, 6200 Adams St.

Ms. Ali, a Fulbright Scholar, who has worked for Pakistani women’s rights for 25 years says, “There is a sense of frustration that so much more is achievable and the pace of change is not fast enough.” At the same time she cautions, “There are tenets of Islam, relating to women, which have been grossly misrepresented, even by Muslim media,”

Our Christian Peacemaker Team delegation members, Amanda Balzer (Colombia) and Hannah Breckbill (Palestine) reported in Lincoln churches, universities, and schools during the week of September 7-14. 

Participants will break paper chains, symbolizing indifference to capital punishment, as churches from across the city gather for "A Witness Against the Death Penalty." The community worship service will be held on Sunday, November 11 at 7:00 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1345 S. 16th St. The public is invited.

Three speakers will share their opposition to the death penalty from very different perspectives.

An Interfaith Service of Remembrance and Reflection was held on the four-year anniversary of the war, March 20, at First Presbyterian. The event, sponsored by Clergy Peacemakers remembered Americans, Iraqis, and all who have died in the conflict through readings of sacred texts, lighting of candles, recitation of names, and sharing of personal testimonies.

More than twenty Lincoln churches joined in a prayer of lament and reading of the names of Americans and Iraqis who have died in the Iraq War as an act of remembrance during their regular weekly services of worship on Sunday, March 18, immediately prior to the war's four-year anniversary on March 20. Each participating congregation read the name of an Iraqi and an American for each worshipper present. Together the churches read all available names of those who have died in the war.