October Monthly Peace from The Global Immersion Project of San Diego, California, United States "Welcome to the Global Immersion monthly newsletter" for Monday, 31 October 2016The Monthly Peace
There is a growing movement of Jesus followers throughout the US who are taking seriously their call to care for the “stranger” in their midst. Despite the hostile rhetoric and policies toward our sisters and brothers coming to our border fleeing violence or economic injustice, the Church is showing up with open arms in exchange for hardened hearts. We have been honored to contribute to this movement of peace through our Immigrants’ Journey Learning Lab here on the US/Mexico border. A couple weeks ago, we had a sacred evening with our Mexican partners in Tijuana sharing a meal and telling stories of transformation in individuals, churches and universities across the US as a result of their partnership with Global Immersion. We believe there are no better instructors for the hard work of peace than those who are living it out in the midst of conflict. Our Mexican friends are doing just that. When we, the US Church, listen and learn from minority voices in the majority world, we quickly realize we aren't the heroes, but the students.
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It is time to amplify the voices of peace, especially among women who seek to lead and live a legacy that has significance and purpose. Amplify: A Women's Peacemaking Pilgrimage will strategically guide women into deeper narratives on topics such as Identity, Conflict Transformation, Racial and Cultural Reconciliation and living as Everyday Peacemakers.
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Amplify: A Women's Peacemaking Pilgrimage
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In partnership with Lisa Jernigan of Central Christian Church, AZ, The Global Immersion Project has developed this long-term initiative and we invite you to join other voices of peacemakers around the globe as together we seek to bring transformative peacemaking.
Our strategic training equips women with a robust theology for peace and a tangible set of peacemaking practices that translate into your homes, neighborhoods, city, nation and world. Through comprehensive and interactive learning, we seek to activate women and amplify their voices as Instruments of Peace.
You will be shoulder to shoulder with women from all over the country who are ready for an adventure layered in complexity and conflict, one in which you will emerge as an Everyday Peacemaker. It is not for the faint of heart but it is for those seeking passion, purpose and their true identity. It doesn’t matter from where you come or how you enter into this transformative pathway of everyday peacemaking.
Activate women as instruments of peace. Select “Amplify” from the drop down menu.
Are you tired of the headlines pointing to the conflict and violence around us? Do you desire to see the way of Jesus in the here and now? Then you understand why it is time to amplify the voices of peace, especially among women who seek to lead and live a legacy that has significance and purpose.
Amplify Peacemaking will strategically guide women into deeper narratives on topics such as Identity, Conflict Transformation, Racial and Cultural Reconciliation and living as Everyday Peacemakers.
Here’s what you can anticipate:
A five-month Everyday Peacemaking Training that equips and activates women into long-term engagement as part of building a movement of women peacemakers.
The first phase (5 weeks) of training is spent in interactive engagement in an online classroom designed to accommodate busy schedules and at the same time integrate TGIP’s peacemaking framework within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It can be done at your own pace and location.
The training continues into the second phase, which is positioned as a “learning lab,” that is an 8-day immersive experience in Israel/Palestine. This is where women will engage with Middle Eastern peacemakers through encounters designed to:
- Focus on the historical places of women in Scripture
- Highlight local, modern-day women working for peace in the region
- Coach participants into lives that reflect the peacemaking way of Jesus in their own context back home
- The journey isn’t over when the trip concludes. In many ways, this third phase is only the beginning! Women will be given opportunities to connect, debrief, process and find encouragement to begin living as Everyday Peacemakers incorporating the practices and experiences they have just learned and lived.
- Once women are unleashed into this narrative of living as Everyday Peacemakers, the world will not be the same! Think of all the possibilities that await.
Oct. 28-30: Immigrants' Journey Learning Lab: We just led another group of participants through Tijuana and San Diego in the culmination of a three-month formational journey that immerses us into the human story of immigration.
Dec. 3: Cultivate: Cultivate is a one-day intensive designed to practically shift peacemaking from esoteric theory and aspiring value to costly, embodied reality. We are thrilled to partner with Central Christian Church in Phoenix for this event.
Recommended Resources:
1) eCourse: As the election season culminates, our churches will be filled with opinions, preferences, and dreams that will span the spectrum. Our 5-week eCourse, Developing Uncommon Friendships, is designed to equip you, your staff, your small group, and your church to move beyond relational obstacles and toward authentic relationships. 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 disagree with, have disregarded, or have been disrespected by. 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: Recently Jon Huckins joined the Brilliance podcast to talk about peacemaking, immigrants, Islamophobia, Jihad, Pope Francis and engaging with people that we adamantly disagree with. Listen here and check out the Brilliance here.
3) READ: Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level in this story of hope and reconciliation.
4) WATCH: Greg Boyd teaches about the difference between the kingdoms of this world and the kingdom of God. During this election cycle, we need to be reminded to give our primary allegiance to Jesus alone and not the rulers of this world. Listen to the sermon here.
Focus on Peacemaking Partner
Global Immersion is honored to partner with our Mexican colleagues in the peacemaking legacy of Casa del Migrante. A home for men, women, and children on the move, Tijuana’s Casa has provided space for over 200,000 migrants over the past twenty years. Where as a decade ago, their work was focused on migration from the south toward the United States, today, it has shifted to primarily resourcing those who are migrating south from the US because of deportation. Regardless of the direction of movement, Casa has provided unprecedented hospitality to those on their way, becoming a place where restoration springs to life in unlikely and unpredictable ways. Today, Mexicans and international volunteers serve Mexican, Central American, Syrian, and Haitian migrants and refugees as they seek a flourishing future. Learn more about Casa del Migrante and follow their work here. Join us in an upcoming Immigrants’ Journey Learning Lab and walk with us into this sacred space and the lives of Everyday Peacemakers who serve there.
Everyday Peacemaking Practices: 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.
In an election season that can lead to unhealthy conflict around our holiday dinner tables, what is one way you can IMMERSE into the story of someone you disagree with seeking to understand rather than be understood?
We are thrilled to introduce our newest Global Immersion team member, Hailey Mitsui-Davis! She is our Director of Communications and Development and brings vast experience and energy to refine and expand the mission of Global Immersion.
Hailey was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She credits her love of Birkenstocks, coffee, independent music and all things weird to her Northwestern upbringing.
Hailey has been in the nonprofit world for seven years. She spent five of those years at Invisible Children working on raising awareness about the use of child soldiers by the Lord's Resistance Army in Central Africa and fundraising for the organization's lifesaving programs. Some highlights from her time at Invisible Children include: leading a march of 10,000 people to surround the White House, working with students to activate their communities for change, and learning a lot of choreographed dances (because you have to learn how to maintain joy in the midst of working with difficult issues).
Hailey is excited to be bringing her fundraising and storytelling experience to the Global Immersion team and she's looking forward to learning from you as well! If you have any stories of how you've been impacted by Global Immersion's work, she'd love to hear them. You can reach her at hailey@globalimmerse.org
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Dec. 3: Cultivate: Cultivate is a one-day intensive designed to practically shift peacemaking from esoteric theory and aspiring value to costly, embodied reality. We are thrilled to partner with Central Christian Church in Phoenix for this event.
1) eCourse: As the election season culminates, our churches will be filled with opinions, preferences, and dreams that will span the spectrum. Our 5-week eCourse, Developing Uncommon Friendships, is designed to equip you, your staff, your small group, and your church to move beyond relational obstacles and toward authentic relationships. 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 disagree with, have disregarded, or have been disrespected by. 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: Recently Jon Huckins joined the Brilliance podcast to talk about peacemaking, immigrants, Islamophobia, Jihad, Pope Francis and engaging with people that we adamantly disagree with. Listen here and check out the Brilliance here.
3) READ: Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level in this story of hope and reconciliation.
4) WATCH: Greg Boyd teaches about the difference between the kingdoms of this world and the kingdom of God. During this election cycle, we need to be reminded to give our primary allegiance to Jesus alone and not the rulers of this world. Listen to the sermon here.
Focus on Peacemaking Partner
Global Immersion is honored to partner with our Mexican colleagues in the peacemaking legacy of Casa del Migrante. A home for men, women, and children on the move, Tijuana’s Casa has provided space for over 200,000 migrants over the past twenty years. Where as a decade ago, their work was focused on migration from the south toward the United States, today, it has shifted to primarily resourcing those who are migrating south from the US because of deportation. Regardless of the direction of movement, Casa has provided unprecedented hospitality to those on their way, becoming a place where restoration springs to life in unlikely and unpredictable ways. Today, Mexicans and international volunteers serve Mexican, Central American, Syrian, and Haitian migrants and refugees as they seek a flourishing future. Learn more about Casa del Migrante and follow their work here. Join us in an upcoming Immigrants’ Journey Learning Lab and walk with us into this sacred space and the lives of Everyday Peacemakers who serve there.
Everyday Peacemaking Practices: 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.
In an election season that can lead to unhealthy conflict around our holiday dinner tables, what is one way you can IMMERSE into the story of someone you disagree with seeking to understand rather than be understood?
Hailey was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She credits her love of Birkenstocks, coffee, independent music and all things weird to her Northwestern upbringing.
Hailey has been in the nonprofit world for seven years. She spent five of those years at Invisible Children working on raising awareness about the use of child soldiers by the Lord's Resistance Army in Central Africa and fundraising for the organization's lifesaving programs. Some highlights from her time at Invisible Children include: leading a march of 10,000 people to surround the White House, working with students to activate their communities for change, and learning a lot of choreographed dances (because you have to learn how to maintain joy in the midst of working with difficult issues).
Hailey is excited to be bringing her fundraising and storytelling experience to the Global Immersion team and she's looking forward to learning from you as well! If you have any stories of how you've been impacted by Global Immersion's work, she'd love to hear them. You can reach her at hailey@globalimmerse.org
Our mailing address is:
The Global Immersion Project
2801 B Street #22
San Diego, California 92102, United States
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