Peace

ELCA Churchwide Assembly Action CA01.07.60

Passed by the 2001 Churchwide Assembly in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Resolved
To thank the Rocky Mountain Synod for its continuing commitment to peacemaking, nonviolence, and the vision of the "Decade for A Culture of Peace and Nonviolence";

To acknowledge with appreciation the staff arrangements and resource development begun by the churchwide Interunit Task Force in support of this church's full participation in the Decade;

To transmit the memorial to the Division for Church in Society for consideration in developing its budget; and

To encourage individuals, congregations, synods, and church-related agencies and institutions to embrace the Decade's vision of peacemaking, peacekeeping, and nonviolence, and to seek all possible means to teach, practice, and model this vision.