Pacific Basin Initiative Days

Then he took a seed from the land, placed it in fertile soil; a plant by abundant waters, he set it like a willow twig.

Pacific Basin Days 2024: A Week of Learning, Solidarity, and Celebration

From December 3–9, Global Ministries invites you to join us in an enriching journey through the Pacific Basin region. This week-long initiative highlights the abundant waters and fertile grounds of the Pacific Basin, where peace, justice, faith, community, and hope flourish. Together, we’ll learn about the vital work being done by our partners in East Asia and the Pacific.

Monday, December 2

Welcome to Pacific Basin Initiative Week!
Join us this week in exploring the Pacific Basin region and learning from our partners. Watch our video introduction to the Pacific Basin Initiative (above), and be sure to register for tomorrow’s webinar featuring partners and mission co-workers from the region. Register here.

Tuesday, December 3

Learn and engage with partners in the Pacific Basin!

As part of the Pacific Basin Initiative Week, please join us for stories and updates from Global Ministries’ East Asia and Pacific partners in a webinar at 3:00 pm, Dec. 3. Frances Namoumou, Program Manager with the Pacific Conference of Churches in Fiji, will discuss the ecumenical partner’s Climate Change work and their new sustainable agriculture project, the Vulagi Eco-Farm and Training Center. Martha Mensendiek, long-time mission co-worker in Kyoto, Japan, will lift up stories of staff and visitors who have been transformed by the outreach of the Bazaar Café, a bold witness of the United Church of Christ in Japan to marginalized communities in the Kyoto area. Voices from Silliman University Divinity School in Dumaguete, Philippines, will share about the school’s growing Music and Liturgy degree program, which integrates indigenous Filipino song and instrumentation as part of its formation of students for ministry in the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. Register here.