Embrace AIDS ~ Resources
CRWRC has a variety of resources available to help you learn about HIV and AIDS and to help you engage in their HIV and AIDS work around the world:
Shine (iEmbraceAIDS.com) | Education | Worship | Activities | Presentations
SHINE (iEmbraceAIDS.com)
It’s here, it’s live and it’s shining. iEmbraceAIDS.com is a new website created by CRWRC to provide young adults with a way to get involved in the rally to embrace people living with AIDS. These resources below can help you raise awareness of the site:
- Posters to promote the site (pdf)
- Web button for your website
- Newsletter article for your publication
- Bracelets... these free, glow-in-the-dark bracelets are a great way to let others know that you want to do your part to bring AIDS out of the darkness. Order individually or by bags of 20.
- New! T-shirts, beanies, and flashlights available for order.
Are you a teacher, youth group leader, or student leader? Interested in helping to mobilize students to shine their light on AIDS? Submit your details and we will send you information straight away.
EDUCATION
- Embrace AIDS Power Point – for World AIDS Day 2008: a presentation targeted to congregations and youth groups. Add a selection of music to play alongside the visuals.
- Embrace AIDS poster – A promotional poster for CRWRC's Embrace AIDS campaign. The poster comes in three different versions that show black & white photos of African people living with AIDS. The posters say “Don’t turn away…Embrace AIDS” and give the campaign logo and CRWRC’s website. Order yours today or download a sample.
- Embrace AIDS general brochure – A small brochure that gives an overview of CRWRC's Embrace AIDS campaign. Order yours today or download a sample. Spanish also available!
- Embrace AIDS youth brochure – A brochure that gives an overview of AIDS and is targeted to people in their teens and twenties. Order yours today or download a sample.
- Towards a Theology Of AIDS - This article was published in the Reformed Ecumenical Council Focus journal in July 2006. It presents solid arguments for why Christians should be addressing the crisis of HIV/AIDS as a church. It also provides some helpful perspectives on some of the difficult issues related to AIDS.
- FACT Sheets produced by KAIROS (a Canadian Ecumenical Organization working for global justice) in 2006. Topics include AIDS, AIDS & Debt, anti-retroviral drugs, AIDS & women and children, and aid for AIDS.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Morality and AIDS
- CRC AIDS Fact Sheet
- Choose Hope Bible Studies - These studies,produced by Christian Aid, offer ideas for an informal home group to use over four sessions. They are specifically intended to provide a biblical startingpoint for discussing issues related to the worldwide crisis of HIV/AIDS.
- Kenyan Bible Studies - these Bible studies were produced by the Eldoret Diocese of the Anglican Church of Kenya to help African churches start talking about the AIDS crisis.
- 2006 World Hunger Devotional Booklet - CRWRC's 2006 World Hunger Campaign focused on the theme of "Keep the Promise'. This three-week devotional booket provides stories and meditations about a Christian response to AIDS
WORSHIP
NEW! Embrace AIDS Worship Packet - The Embrace AIDS Worship Packet can be used any time during the year. It includes a sample worship service, litany, congregational prayer, song suggestions, children’s sermon, offering activity, bulletin announcements, prayer cards, and more. Includes advocacy suggestions. The packet is complete, easy-to-use, and free! This fully developed worship experience focuses on Isaiah 49:15-16, “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands,” encouraging church members to remember God’s love for those the world would rather forget – including those living with HIV and AIDS and their loved ones. Click here to order.
- Embrace AIDS Prayer Cards - Created as an offering take-home, these six unique Prayer Cards can also be used as stand-alone reminders to pray for people living with AIDS, and CRWRC’s programs and staff around the world. Each card tells the story of a person living with AIDS and serves as a visual reminder, on your ‘fridge or kitchen table, to pray for him/her throughout the year.
- Embrace AIDS Sunday video (click "Play Download" and open in Real Player to burn DVD)
- Embrace AIDS Event Planning Guide for churches – A booklet that encourages churches to plan a fundraising or awareness raising event as part of their involvement in the CRWRC Embrace AIDS campaign. Suggestions include an African meal, a concert, an AIDS workshop, biking for AIDS, AIDS quilt, Fasting for AIDS, talking to children about AIDS, a Penny Mountain, a Care Network, and more. Order yours today or download a sample.
- Embrace AIDS Worship Resources Guide - planning an Embrace AIDS worship service? This guide could be of help to you. Download a sample.
- AIDS Day Bulletin Insert - a simple, black & white insert, that can be printed off and used on/around December 1 for International AIDS Day.
- Chapel Service Liturgy - produced by Kings University College in 2002
- Sample Sermon - written by Roy Berkenbosch in 2002
- Sample Sermon - written by Roy Berkenbosch in 2006
- AIDS Meditation - written by Jim Dekker in 2006
- Suggested Scriptures - compiled by Christian Aid in 2002 in association with the Anglican Church lectionary
- Suggested Scriptures - compiled by Steve Kooy
- Song Suggestions - songs from the Psalter Hymnal and Sing A New Creation that would be appropriate for a worship service about AIDS
- Children's Message - a child-appropriate message about how AIDS impacts African communities
- Biblical and Theological Reflections - Reflections and biblical texts, produced by the Ecumenical AIDS Alliance, that may help you develop sermons and worship services on the HIV and AIDS campaign theme, “Keep the Promise."
- HIV/AIDS Worship Service Outline - used by Covenant CRC in St. Catharines, Ontario in conjunction with the AIDS Meditation by Jim Dekker.
- AIDS Advent Liturgy - Produced by the Ecumenical Prayer Circle in Liberia and Sierra Leone
ACTIVITIES
- Embrace AIDS Event Planning Guide for churches – A booklet that encourages churches to plan a fundraising or awareness raising event as part of their involvement in the CRWRC Embrace AIDS campaign. Suggestions include an African meal, a concert, an AIDS workshop, biking for AIDS, AIDS quilt, Fasting for AIDS, talking to children about AIDS, a Penny Mountain, a Care Network, and more. Order yours today or download a sample.
- Embrace AIDS Workshop for Teens - this engaging, thought-provoking workshop design comes from Mary Crickmore, CRWRC West Africa Team leader, and can be used over two sessions.
- AIDS Trivia game - this youth resource is from an outside organization; churches may want to adjust it as they see fit.
- Advocacy opportunties
- Living With Slim - this powerful, award-winning DVD is 28 minutes long and documents the life of African children who are HIV positive. It will bring the crisis of HIV/AIDS in Africa to life for you and your congregation. To borrow a copy, contact CRWRC. You can also order your own copy for $25 (plus $5 for orders in Canada) by sending a check to Sam Kauffmann, 44 Evergreen Way, Medfield, MA 02052 or by e-mailing samfilmtv@yahoo.com. Please be sure to indicate if you want VHS or DVD copies and what your mailing address is. To deepen your interaction with this film, print off copies of the Living with Slim discussion guide or use the Presentation outline created by CRWRC.
PRESENTATIONS
- Embrace AIDS DVD - A DVD with 3 versions that can help you promote CRWRC's Embrace AIDS Campaign. The DVD tells the story of Kevin and Rose, two people living with AIDS in Kenya. There is a 30 second Public Service Announcement, a 3 minute version appropriate for church offerings, and a longer 14 minute version.
- God's Love Embraces People With Aids - a CRWRC powerpoint presentation
- Hunger and AIDS - a power point presentation created by the Canadian Food Grains Bank
- AIDS Speech - by Karl Westerhof
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