People of Faith Against the Death Penalty


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A time of training and networking for United Methodists
and others from southern states
who are working toward abolishing the death penalty.
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The Church & the Death Penalty: Winning New Victories in the Old South 
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The event is 10am - 3pm at Lake Junaluska (N.C.) Conference & Retreat Center.
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September 14, 2011 - Lake Junaluska

This one-day training will provide an interactive process on how to become strategically engaged with the movement for abolition.

  • Understand the power religious leaders have to effect change on the death penalty
  • Learn how religious leaders can best use their moral authority to advocate and lobby
  • Trends among religious conservatives towards repealing the death penalty
  • Scriptural resources for mobilizing people on the death penalty
  • Utilizing mainstream and religious media
  • Recent victories in other states – how they can help you
  • How to generate and use resolutions to repeal the death penalty
  • How to generate and utilize a national religious leader sign-on letter for repeal
  • Learn about the National Weekend of Faith in Action

For more information contact Bill Mefford
bmefford@umc-gbcs.org
202.488.5657