Our EPF Maryland Chapter will be among those celebrating the United Nation’s Day of International Peace on September 21. Click here to learn more about this event in Salisbury, Maryland.
Category Archives: Chapters
HOW TO ORGANIZE A PARISH EPF MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Description: Right now we are in the EPF membership campaign (until November 15), however, you can conduct a membership drive at any time. EPF is a separate 502-C3 (non-profit) organization whose membership (close to 2,000 across the country) support our work. To become a member one needs to donate and take the nonviolence pledge. It’s…
Becoming the “OTHER” by Deacon Susan
by Deacon Susan Bonsteel, Convener, EPF Mid-Hudson Kingston Chapter Recently I had an upsetting experience while shopping at a local store. A clerk, possibly having an all-around bad day, decided to take out her frustration on me. While I realize now that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, the incident at the time was quite…
HOW TO FORM A NEW EPF CHAPTER
DESCRIPTION This Tool offers a design for a local or area EPF gathering that may function as a first step toward forming a new Chapter. It includes ideas for reaching out to fellow peacemakers and a format for that important first meeting. POTENTIAL OUTCOMES Organizing for peacemaking builds up power in action. Peacemakers sustain one…
EPF Colorado Journey Into Peace Conference: Success!
Read Dean Eaton’s Sermon delivered the first night of Journey Into Peace, here REPORT FROM JOURNEY INTO PEACE: Fifty people from nine states gathered at St. John’s Cathedral in Denver the first weekend in August to learn new ways to make peace. “Journey Into Peace,” an event co-sponsored by Episcopal Peace Fellowship Colorado, Colorado Jubilee…
Dean Eaton’s sermon: Journey Into Peace Conference
A Sermon by the Very Reverend Peter Eaton Dean of Saint John’s Cathedral Denver, Colorado for the Opening Eucharist for Journey into Peace: Creating a Culture of Non-Violence sponsored by the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Jubilee Ministries of Colorado, and Saint John’s Cathedral The Feast of the Transfiguration 6 August 2010 7:00 pm It is an…
Journey Into Peace: Successful
Aren’t you tired of the division and polarization? Well, here’s what you can do… How many times have you thought “I SO wish we could learn to deal with our problems collaboratively instead of attacking one another?” We’ve heard it in our homes, our churches, our political organizations and wished it during the endless rounds…
HOW TO ORGANIZE AN EPF/CAMPUS CHAPLAINCY EVENT
DESCRIPTION The EPF Chapter of the Southern Tier in Ithaca, New York, has organized two cooperative peace-centered events with the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Cornell University in the last several years. The events featured a home-cooked supper (“if you feed them they will come”) immediately following the 5 pm Sunday Eucharist, with the opportunity to then…
Video of Truth Commission Coming Soon!
Dear Truth Commission Testifiers, Commissioners, Co-sponsors and Supporters, COMING SOON: VIDEO OF THE MARCH 21 HEARING! Over the next 8 weeks, we will be creating separate segments of each testimony from the March 21 hearing and posting them online. Look for email notifications. We hope you will post these clips on your websites and blogs…
News from EPF New Hampshire Chapter
The Jonathan Daniels New Hampshire Chapter of EPF hosted Walk4Peace participants Easter Eve. Buddhist and Christian witnesses for a nuclear free world are walking to the United Nations to plead for the U.S. to lead the way to dismantle the nuclear weapons on earth. EPF Vice-Chair, The Rev. William Exner, enjoyed Easter sunrise prayers with…
