 Jubilee
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You are welcome to attend the monthly lunch meeting of Jubilee San Diego
@ the Fish Market in Solana Beach We meet every second Tuesday with the exception of the month of December, from 12:00-2:00
P.M. RSVP to Jean O’Leary at jeanoleary@gmail.com or Gail Winterbourne at winterb52@gmail.com . Bethlehem Lutheran Church is a Jubilee Congregation The Vision For many reason, it feels as if it is midnight in out time. War, the AIDS epidemic, the rising cost of food, instability, and poverty rage globally, fed by the scandalous inequalities that create a rift between us and our brothers and sisters in the Global South. Yet is was Martin Luther King Jr. who called attention to the fact that it is in the midnight sky that the stars shine the brightest. Ours in the blessing and the challenge to be stars that shine bright through the midnight, bearing witness to God’s vision of a trans form world. When people of faith join together for a holy purpose, rooted in our scriptures, we can turn the tides of economic injustice, challenge harmful policies and advance a prophetic vision of right relationships among nations, fairness, equality and hope for world’s poor. People of faith have been at the heart of many major social movement in U.S. history; the abolition, woman’s suffrage, civil rights, peace and other movements have been sustained by people of faith. By participating in the jubilee movement, your congregation joins the ranks of many who have faithfully struggled for and won social change. . The Judeo-Christian tradition teaches us where people lack vision they ultimately perish. Our brothers and sisters are perishing under the crushing weight of international debt payments to wealth creditors. The vision of Jubilee calls for the building of right relationships between communities, peoples and nations. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. captured the essence of Jubilee best when he said, “We are caught in an inescapable garment of destiny. Injustice anywhere represents a threat to justice everywhere.” In our world today international cooperation builds true security while the crisis of debt breeds instability. Hopelessness and unnecessary suffering. We know debt cancellation works. It is up to us to generate the political will needed to achieve this life-affirming goal. Movements turn the impossible into the inevitable. Ten years ago many economists. Politicians and development specials argued that cancelling the debts of impoverished nations was an impossible task given the entrenched nature of the debt and the lack of public awareness and engagement around the issue. The rising wave of people of faith contacting our elected leaders, education the media, and reaching out to other in our communities has put this crisis on the national agenda. The power to create change is in all of our hands. Only a world that is free from want and need can be world of true security for all. Jubilee Congregation |
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