{"id":4301,"date":"2020-01-28T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/?page_id=4301"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:08:03","slug":"matthew-25-initiative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/our-ministries\/matthew-25-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 25 Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"extendedwopts-md-center wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/matthew25logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/matthew25logo-227x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/matthew25logo-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/matthew25logo.png 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8ed0ed2b9e42643e66df7bba5c6ad88f\">The Matthew 25 Initiative of the PCUSA is designed to bring about \u201cradical and fearless discipleship\u201d among congregations and mid-councils by engaging in three targeted missions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-76e574f17f254722a5d027cf6f4df85f\">     \u2022 <strong>Building congregational vitality<\/strong> by challenging people and congregations to deepen their faith and get actively and joyfully engaged with their community and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c97ec94ba1c3695c3f5e79d81a68559c\">     \u2022 <strong>Dismantling systemic poverty<\/strong> by working to change laws, policies, plans, and structures in our society that perpetuate economic exploitation of people who are poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1ae1cef736174008594b2805b2ce26d3\">     \u2022 <strong>Eradicating structural racism<\/strong> by advocating and acting to break down the systems, practices and thinking that underlie discrimination, bias, prejudice, and oppression of people of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1be38a2191847ca5642dba6e62cdbe0f\">By becoming a Matthew 25 church, Geneva has committed to act boldly and compassionately to serve people who are hungry, oppressed, imprisoned, or poor.&nbsp; act boldly and compassionately to serve people who are hungry, oppressed, imprisoned, or poor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Matthew 25 Initiative of the PCUSA is designed to bring about \u201cradical and fearless discipleship\u201d among congregations and mid-councils by engaging in three targeted missions: \u2022 Building congregational vitality by challenging people and congregations to deepen their faith and get actively and joyfully engaged with their community and the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/our-ministries\/matthew-25-initiative\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":1926,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7867,"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4301\/revisions\/7867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genevachurch.org\/main03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}