St Martin of Tours - Feast Day

St Martin of Tours - Feast Day

St Martin of Tours is known as the first conscientious objector and a great peacemaker in the Christian church. His feast day of 11 November (or the nearest Sunday) which is also observed as Remembrance Day for remembering those killed in wars (it was called Armistice Day following the First World War).

Lutherans have had a long history of responding to the gospel call to be peacemakers. One of the initial motivations for the formation of a Lutheran peace movement in the US was the need to support those resisting the draft through conscientious objection to military solutions to conflict. LPF traces its roots to this movement dating back to 1940.

For more contemporary information on current issues relating to the military service, see LPF's resource: Youth and the Military

For further information on St Martin of Tours, here are several links:

Martin of Tours

St. Martin's Day

St Martin — patron saint of conscientious objectors

November 11th. St. Martin of Tours.

SAINT MARTIN OF TOURS BISHOP, CONFESSOR—316-400

St. Martin of Tours

LPF Peace Art Contest

We are doing a makeover of the main homepage of the LPF website and want to include pictures of people involved in a variety of peacemaking activities and other images and artwork to illustrate the work of LPF.

Please send us action shots of you and other peacemakers in action and images or artwork of what peacemaking means to you. The best entries will be featured on the LPF website.

Ideas include:

• Take action photos of peace related events/activities in your congregation or community.
• Sunday school art projects: draw a picture of what peace means to you.
• Pick out your favorite peace related bible verse to illustrate.
• Download LPF´s Peace Deck and create original artwork based on your favorite quote.
• Illustrate the concepts of active nonviolence and conflict resolution in photos or drawings.
• Take pictures at your local foodbank or feeding program of people helping people in need.

Please submit entries by email to lutheranpeace@gmail.com (5 mb max per email) along with the author´s name so we can give them credit.

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World Food Day

Saturday, October 16th

The theme of this year’s observance is United against hunger, chosen to recognize the efforts made in the fight against world hunger at national, regional and international levels.

Resources:

LPF Hunger Resources

World Food Day USA

World Food Day UN website
World Food Day - Wikipedia

People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)

Indigenous Food Systems Network - Food Sovereignty

La Via Campesina

Tierra Viva Bolivia

Organisations working on Food Sovereignty issues