Folks I want to point your attention to the case of Cathy Henderson. She is scheduled to die on April 18, 2007. Please pray for her at her family. I employer everyone to include in your prayers the victims and their families as well as those men and women that are employed in the correction facilities charged with the care and execution of these inmates.
Thank you for your support and prayers!!!
Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Another Execution
Today Roy Lee Pippin was killed by the State of Texas. He was the 11th person killed by the State of Texas this year. Texas leads the nation in State sponsored killing with 389. Virginia follows with a close 98, then Oklahoma with 84. All of these figures are State sponsored killing from 1976 to March 29, 2007. Since 1976 1,068 people have been killed by State sponsored means. More than a third of the national total of State sponsored killing has transpired in Texas.
Please continue to pray with us for those killed by the State and the victims that were involved in the crimes committed and all of their families. We seek reconciliation, peace, and love. We seek to love one another as we love ourselves.
For more information regarding the death penalty click on the links below...
Death Penalty Information Center
Amnesty International's Global Abolition Effort
Texas Moratorium Network
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Texas Students Against the Death Penalty
Please continue to pray with us for those killed by the State and the victims that were involved in the crimes committed and all of their families. We seek reconciliation, peace, and love. We seek to love one another as we love ourselves.
For more information regarding the death penalty click on the links below...
Death Penalty Information Center
Amnesty International's Global Abolition Effort
Texas Moratorium Network
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Texas Students Against the Death Penalty
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Our mission and hope for the world
Our mission, in its broadest sense, includes increasing awareness of and dialogue related to social and ecological justice issues. The group will focus its attention on specific topics that are timely, relevant and of greatest concern to the community.
Current concerns include the following:
- Training in the ministry of difficult topic facilitation
- Inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persons in worship
- Ordination of openly LGBT persons
- Use of inclusive language
- Struggle of women in the church
- Involvement of the church in the areas of environment and social justice
- Support for individuals in the APTS community who are sensitive to social justice concerns
At the heart of Christian Social Justice is the commandment to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself. Jesus embodied this commandment by loving everyone he came across and he continues to embody it through the Church. The Gospels show Christ' heart moved by those who have been pushed to the margins of society: the sick, the poor, and the rejected. Christ in all his Glory reached out to share this glory with the cast down of the world. We believe each of us is called to share what we have with those who have not, everything from money to our social position. We must recognize ourselves in others, our liberation in the liberation of others. The mission of Corpus Christi is to learn to articulate this Good News of Christ. So that we can proclaim it with confidence, love, and hope for unity of the Body of Christ.
Current concerns include the following:
- Training in the ministry of difficult topic facilitation
- Inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persons in worship
- Ordination of openly LGBT persons
- Use of inclusive language
- Struggle of women in the church
- Involvement of the church in the areas of environment and social justice
- Support for individuals in the APTS community who are sensitive to social justice concerns
At the heart of Christian Social Justice is the commandment to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself. Jesus embodied this commandment by loving everyone he came across and he continues to embody it through the Church. The Gospels show Christ' heart moved by those who have been pushed to the margins of society: the sick, the poor, and the rejected. Christ in all his Glory reached out to share this glory with the cast down of the world. We believe each of us is called to share what we have with those who have not, everything from money to our social position. We must recognize ourselves in others, our liberation in the liberation of others. The mission of Corpus Christi is to learn to articulate this Good News of Christ. So that we can proclaim it with confidence, love, and hope for unity of the Body of Christ.
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