On Earth Peace announces:

Shumaker Foundation Awards Challenge Grant for Agape-Satyagraha Youth Training Program

The Shumaker Family Foundation has made a challenge grant of $12,500 to support the Agape-Satyagraha youth training program in nonviolence this year. The terms of the challenge grant require that On Earth Peace raise an equal amount in new or increased contributions toward the new youth program.

The Agape-Satyagraha program is a partnership of Brethren Community Ministries in Harrisburg, PA, with On Earth Peace. Two local programs are already underway, and a third is in the planning stages. For more information, click here, or see the Spring newsletter of On Earth Peace. Contributions are needed to support these local sites and expand the program to other communities.

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The International Day of Prayer for Peace 2009
Building Community… Building Peace
September 21, 2009

On Earth Peace is launching its third annual campaign in support of the World Council of Churches International Day of Prayer for Peace initiative, which is observed annually on September 21, coinciding with the United Nations International Day of Peace.

Last year, some 160 congregations and organizations in 4 countries, and Puerto Rico participated in On Earth Peace’s campaign.

This year, participating congregations are being encouraged to focus their activities around the ways in which people in every community around the country are being affected by the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. 

One change from previous years offers participants three different kinds of events for the campaign:  Observances, Vigils, and Listening Initiatives. General information about the campaign is available at the campaign website at http://idopp.onearthpeace.org.

Congregations wanting to sign up for the campaign should go to http://www.idopp.onearthpeace.org/idopp-2009-registration.