Interfaith Collaboration as Moral Leverage

Engages in advocacy efforts to support interfaith families and distributes resources to meet their needs, including public education and community outreach.

Creates professionally designed, scalable educational programs for children, couples, and families from interfaith backgrounds that can be replicated in other communities.

Organizes and hosts Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre, Yom Kippur, and post-Yom Kippur break fast events for the interfaith community, including services at Makor Synagogue and private residences on the Upper West Side of New York City.

Provides ongoing couples' workshops and family programs as part of its direct support for interfaith households, particularly Jewish-Christian families, through structured classes and events.

Offers a multi-tiered curriculum for children in pre-K through 8th grade, co-taught by Jewish and Christian educators, across multiple locations. Programs include 10-session courses with opening and closing Family Days for children and their families.

Operates an Accompaniment Program that provides presence, storytelling, community building, and advocacy support for individuals engaged in peace and justice work, with activities in Colombia and the United States.

Coordinates Action Circles, offers workshops, educational resources, and public actions to build capacity for nonviolence and justice work within the Presbyterian Church (USA) and broader networks.

Organizes through Presbyterians for Abolition to end carceral violence and policing, promoting abolitionist practices as part of its justice and peace programming.

Advocates within Christian communities, particularly the Presbyterian Church (USA), for the adoption of gospel nonviolence as central to discipleship and urges rejection of just war theory based on the nonviolent teachings of Jesus.

Leads gun violence prevention efforts through the Guns to Gardens movement, including distributing educational materials such as the 80-page Congregational Toolkit, Gun Safety & Safe Storage Cards, and brochures, and providing training for congregations to host gun dismantling events.

Produces and distributes multiple newsletters including a quarterly print newsletter titled '…Briefly', a monthly online newsletter, and specialized email updates such as Accompanier Reports, GVP ENEWS, and emergency response resources.

Organizes nonviolent direct actions to confront structural violence, including military violence in Ukraine and Gaza, police violence, environmental degradation, and colonialism, with specific campaigns related to Palestine solidarity, BDS participation, and ceasefire advocacy.

Organized an Activist Council Gathering as a primary program activity to convene and mobilize peace and justice advocates.

Supports churches in declaring as Peace Churches, provides resources and study materials for congregational discernment, and offers support for conscientious objectors to war and militarism as part of a broader Peace Church Movement.

Responded to a proposal for a Justice Peace Center on Christmas Island, Republic of Kiribati, through community engagement and advocacy.

Hosts virtual and in-person events including the Lost and Found Virtual Peace Church gatherings, a monthly abolition discussion group, and in-person Peace Gatherings during the General Assembly, along with live Zoom briefings to provide background on peacemaking overtures.

Organizes monthly partnership meetings and a weekly interfaith education series that connect congregants with sacred spaces across Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions, fostering collaboration across religious, racial, cultural, and economic divides to promote justice and healing in New York City.

Responds to incidents of religious violence by issuing joint public statements, such as condemning the anti-Semitic attack at Congregation Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, and organizing public interfaith prayer gatherings in solidarity with affected communities, including at Sutton Place Synagogue.