"New Edition of the Monthly Peace" The Global Immersion Project in San Diego, California, United States for Friday, 1 July 2016 "Welcome to the TGIP monthly newsletter"The Monthly PeaceDo you wonder if the world isn’t coming undone at the seams? The massacres in Orlando and Istanbul, the 37,000 people who are displaced daily due to violence, and the reality of unjust domestic systems leaving traumatized people in their wake can leave us paralyzed in fear and cause us to pursue safety no matter the cost. Here’s the good news: Jesus died, rose again, and is making all things new. We get to be a part of restoration…but how? In this edition of Monthly Peace, you will read some stories and access resources that will equip you to take your next step as an Everyday Peacemaker.
Summer Student Immigrants’ Journey Learning Labs
"This trip is a creative, new, and better outlook on God, global mission and peacemaking. I have never learned so much in so little time and dug so deep in my faith. I have never felt the motivation I now feel to actually do something about an issue.” - IJ Lab Participant
We are kicking off a series of Immigrants' Journey Learning Labs that will extend through the summer. Youth ministries from across the country will be flying in to spend a week learning a theology and practice of peacemaking from our friends here on both sides of the border. In today’s culture and climate of violence, division and stereotype, there is no more important moment for the next generation to take seriously Jesus' invitation to live as Everyday Peacemakers. We were inspired and encouraged by our friends from Faith Lutheran, Glen Ellyn and InnerChange who just completed the first Immigrants' Journey Learning Lab of the summer. In this unique inter-generational group, high school, college students and adults allowed their minds to be challenged and their hearts to be broken in ways that motivate a pursuit of peace through a costly and subversive way of life that resembles the mission of Jesus.
Upcoming TGIP Events
Jon and Jer, TGIP co-founders, will be in Colorado for the Simply Jesus Gathering this summer from July 28-31. While there, they will be leading The Everyday Peacemaking Track, designed to practically shift peacemaking from esoteric theory to embodied reality, and equipping participants to humbly and courageously enter the pain of conflict with the tools to transform. Join us there! Find out more about Simply Jesus and register here.
1) eCourse: We recently launched our very first eCourse, Developing Uncommon Friendships. In this eCourse, TGIP co-founders Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart challenge common perspectives and offer a practical guide for developing uncommon friendships. Throughout this five-week course, you will go on a journey that will equip you to See, Immerse, and Contend with and for those whom you have othered. Ultimately, you will learn to develop collaborative relationships that lead to tangible restoration. It's a self-paced eCourse, so take it on your own timing for as long as you need (with lifetime access).
2) LISTEN: Jon Huckins recently sat down with Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo at Red Letter Christians to discuss how Christians can stay true to Jesus' commandment to be peacemakers. He talks about our work, our most recent trip to the Middle East and his conversations with Morgan Freeman.
3) Watch: Over the last two weeks, we hosted a 3-part Webinar series that got us in touch with some of the deepest pain in the world. Focusing on the Orlando Massacre, the Refugee Crisis, and the Racial Tension in the US, our webinars featured national and international experts who informed, equipped, and mobilized us to respond to crisis as Everyday Peacemakers. Get access to the webinars HERE. (Password: peace)
News from Around the World
Six years ago, an unlikely friendship started on a rooftop in Jerusalem that mobilized the mission of TGIP. After many years of hosting our Learning Lab delegations in their backyard in Bethany, we were thrilled to welcome Manar and Milad to the US for the very first time. Through the Vision Association for Culture and Arts, Manar and Milad cultivate hope and peace for children and youth living in the West Bank. In the practice of peacemaking, they are our guides and we continue to be inspired by their friendship and example.
Everyday Peacemaking Practices: IMMERSE
IMMERSE - In the same way that God humbly entered into the radical center of our conflict-riddled story in the Person of Jesus, Everyday Peacemakers step off the road of comfort and into reality seeking to understand rather than to be understood.
Photographer Richard Renaldi approaches random people on the streets of New York City and asks them to pose together as if they actually knew each other. What these photographs reflect is unbelievable. Take a minute to watch this beautiful practice of immersion in action.
Meet TGIP co-founder, Jon Huckins.
Jon Huckins is the Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project. After much international travel and study in the Middle East, Jon focuses much of his writing and speaking on peacemaking, local/global engagement and activating the Church as an instrument of peace in our world. He writes for numerous publications including USA Today, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and RELEVANT, is a contributing author to multiple books and has written two books of his own; his latest being Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community. Jon regularly speaks at churches, universities and conferences and has a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in theology and ethics. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Jan, three daughters (Ruby, Rosie & Lucy) and one son (Hank) where they co-lead an intentional Christian community seeking to live as a reconciling presence in their neighborhood of Golden Hill. He writes at http://jonhuckins.net/ @jonhuckins
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