2025 Peace Fund Grants Awarded
Last year, SEPAZ offered conflict transformation trainings and self-care workshops for youth in Cali, Colombia, with the help of a Peace Fund grant.
BPFNA~Bautistas por la Paz is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 Peace Fund grants, a cohort of grassroots leaders turning faith into action in four countries.
This year’s recipients were selected for their visionary approaches to addressing systemic injustice and violence. The funded projects include:
A Peace Fund grant made it possible for Rise Above Reality Expectation to host a soccer camp for children of immigrant families in Vancouver, Canada, in 2024.
The St. Charles Center for Faith + Action, In Deed and Truth (New Orleans, La.). This program invites predominantly historically white congregations to tell the whole truth about their histories and enter an intentional, guided discernment process to determine how each local church will act upon the full knowledge of their origins. The program meets virtually throughout the year for training and dialogue, and culminates in an in-person summit each November that deepens learning, builds relationships, and inspires collective action.
Christians for a Free Palestine, Gaza, God & Genocide: Called to Break the Cycle (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). A Vancouver conference in Spring 2026 will bring together churches and representatives from multiple denominations in Western Canada around the theme of Palestinian solidarity. The conference will platform Palestinian speakers to guide attendees into deeper allyship and solidarity while creating space for Christians to brainstorm fresh initiatives to end the genocide and free Palestine.
Fundación Social Paz en la Tormenta, Reconstructing Histories from the Borders (Cali, Colombia). This project offers a space of learning, self-expression, and transformation to Afro-Colombian youth and young adults displaced by violence. Four interactive music workshops will explore Afro-Colombian music as a vehicle for cultural resistance and reconciliation. The youth will compose and record three original songs that reflect their experiences of peace, identity, and struggle against racism.
Mayan Intercultural Seminary, Community Development through Ancestral Medicine (Chiapas, México). Eight men and women from the community of Yolonhuitz will undergo intensive training in indigenous traditions of medical herbalism. These trainees will preserve ancestral wisdom while attending to the health and wellbeing of the indigenous Mayans of Chiapas, who face significant barriers to accessing healthcare.
“Congratulations to the recipients of our Peace Fund program,” said William Moses Summerville, interim executive director. “May they receive the recurring grace that is needed to carry what is important to God’s heart.”
Through the Peace Fund program, BPFNA awards grants each year to fund grassroots projects around the world that help build peace rooted with justice in their local contexts. The grant selection process is guided by a committee of the board of directors.
