Justice and Peace Action Group & Prayers for the Persecuted and Refugees
Meetings include prayer for the persecuted and refugees across the world.
Download LeafletNext meeting : Tue 14 May : Visit to Degibna Prayer Chapel
Leaving St Mary’s Church at 2pm prompt and car-sharing to enable as many people as possible to take part in this special event.
The visit will include the Prayer Garden and there will be time for tea and cake, as well as time for prayer for persecuted Christians.
All welcome.
Previous meetings:
2019:
Tue 9 Apr: Food Poverty
Tue 12 Mar: Church Action on Poverty
Tue 12 Feb: Supporting Persecuted Christians
Tue 8 Jan: Medicins sans Frontiers
2018:
Tue 11 Dec : Cornwall Faith Forum : Learning for Peace
Tue 20 Nov: Prayer for England
Tue 23 Oct : Visit to SACREdplace Bookshop, St Austell
Tue 25 Sep : Report from Calais
Wed 11 Jul : Walk around the World : Walk for Refugees, Kimberley Park
Tues 10 Jul : Justice for Seafarers
Tues 12 Jun : Justice & Peace Action Group annual review
Tues 8 May : Health, Healing and Development
Tues 11 Apr : Calais and Beyond: what is happening to refugees in Europe?
Tues 13 Mar : Fairtrade and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Tues 13 Feb : Homelessness: how are churches helping?
Tues 09 Jan : The UN Sustainable Development Goals
2017:
Tues 12 Dec : Environmental Issues
Tues 14 Nov : Restorative Justice
Tues 10 Oct : Visit to Multifaith Chaplaincy, Penryn Campus
Tues 26 Sep : Working for Justice and Peace
Tues 11 July : Justice & Peace : the year in review
Tues 13 Jun : Safe, reliable, affordable, renewable energy?
Mon 8 May : Visit to Penryn Campus, Exeter University
Tues 11 Apr : The Big Issue Issue
Tues 14 Mar : Falmouth as a Fairtrade Town
Tues 14 Feb : Visit to ShelterBox, Truro
Tues 10 Jan : World Day of Peace 2017 :Celebration of Peace
2016:
Tues 13 Dec : Looking back and looking forward
Tues 8 Nov : Current issues
Tues 11 Oct : Climate Change: A Christian Response presentation (ppt) / presentation (pdf) / Christian Aid resources
Wed 28 September: Della Shenton: A Forgotten People: Migrants and Refugees Challenge us to respond with Christian Mercy
Speaker: Della Shelton, from Parishes for Peace: a UK charity working to support the local church in Jordan and the NGOs to support and facilitate communication and friendship between Christian families in the UK and the refugee families. An FPCT Justice & Peace Action Group Evening Meeting.
Tues 13 September: Pat Fitzpatrick: I was a stranger and you welcomed me
Tues 12 July: Alan Offord: Work with Schools
Tues 14 June: Jane Charman: Community Needs
Sat 14 May: Report on the Study Day Persecuted Christians: Where Next? at Truro Mthodist Church
Tues 10 May: The whole meeting devoted to Prayer for Persecuted Christians as part of the Archbishop’s Week of Prayer for the Nation, held at St Budock Church
Tues 12 Apr: Mary Bradley: The Changing Face of Mission
Wed 9 Mar : Big Fairtrade Breakfast, 9-11am
Tues 8 Mar: Pat FitzPatrick: Fair Trade
Tues 9 Feb: Nona Wright: Food Security at home and abroad
Tues 12 Jan: Mary Bradley: Looking Back and Looking Forward
2015:
Dec: From Footsteps to Pedal Power – Pedal to Paris: Dr Euan McPhee
Nov: Climate Change: the Paris Conference: Dr Euan McPhee
Oct: Refugees, the True Story: John Skinner
Sept: Racial Justice
July: “I was in prison and you remembered me”
May: People Trafficking: the local situation
April: Modern Slavery
March: Fair Trade
Feb: Climate Change
Jan: Migration
2014:
Oct: Integrity of Creation
Previous events
- International Party, Saturday 6 June, 12-5pm
- Modern Slavery Study Day, Truro, 11 April 2015
Report
Useful links
Persecuted Church Newsletter
Open Doors
Barnabas Fund
Transformation Cornwall
Ecochurch Southwest
Fairtrade Foundation
Stop the Traffik [Human trafficking]
Church Action on Poverty
Christian Solidarity Worldwide – Voice for the Voiceless
Lifelines – supports and befriends prisoners on Death Row throughout the USA
Prisoners Abroad – caring for Britons overseas