May 31 – July 28, 2011 Are you passionate about social justice? Interested in activism? Curious about other religious traditions? Muslim, Jewish or Christian? Ready to get your hands dirty – literally? Apply now to spend your summer with the Community of Living Traditions at the Stony Point Center. Join other young adults for eight…
Category Archives: Young Adults
April 4-11, 2011 – Converge on Washington, DC! SOA Watch Days of Action
From: Gabriella Uassouf <gabi@soaw.org> To: epfnational@ameritech.net April 4-11, 2011 – Converge on Washington, DC! SOA Watch Days of Action Bringing the Resistance to the Heart of the Empire Dear Jacqueline, April is coming, and with it a new opportunity to come together united against militarism and for a culture of peace with justice. Our April…
Pilgrimage Report: Martyrs of Alabama remind us of living a loving courage
By the Rev. Allison Liles HAYNEVILLE, AL – “O God, look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls that separate us; unite us in bonds of love; and work through struggle and confusion to accomplish your purposes on earth; that all nations…
A Reflection: Fourth Annual Urban Pilgrimage for Peace, Stations of the Cross
By Christina Manweller Walking toward the fourth station, St. Francis Center, stepping over Marlboro packs and vodka bottles, on this wind-swept Good Friday morning, I’m aware of how easily our “pilgrimage” could be seen as a thing wholly undesirable: well-fed women and men venturing out to observe the hungry, the least fortunate. We’re here with…
The Brain Trust Announces Urban Pilgrimage 2011
By the Rev. Valerie Bailey Fischer Want to change the world but need a place to discern this desire and call? The Urban Pilgrimage offers college students and young adults a place to explore and discern this vocation. The pilgrimage sites put college students and young adults in direct contact with career social justice advocates…
EPF Urban Pilgrimage Fundraising Letter
Dear Thank you for your interest in the Urban Pilgrimage 2011. Urban Pilgrimage 2011 is the Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s new creative learning and leadership development experience for tomorrow’s peacemakers. Homelessness, immigration and hunger are among many complex and often hidden problems that affect many urban and rural communities. As part of the pilgrimage experience, students…
EPF Young Adults
Join this group and be in touch with other young adults who care about Peace and Justice and are doing something about it. Conveners: Valerie Bailey Fischer or Jessie Smith Find out about the Young Adult Urban Pilgrimages What about Young Adult General Convention Presence?
HOW TO ORGANIZE A MULTIFAITH PEACE PROJECT
DESCRIPTION Our objective was a multifath, multicultural and intergenerational peace project, both creative and created by US. For us, “creative” meant doing something involving art, music, writing and drama. But, we always stressed that these activities were not our goal, but the means to our goal: making peace. Peace, we felt, involves understanding of self…
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…
EPF Young Adult Pilgrimage
EPF’s Young Adult Urban Pilgrimage in NYC happened March 19 – 24th, Eight young adults from each coast met in New York City with their leaders the Rev. Valerie Bailey Fischer, the Rev. Nicole Janelle and Michelle Harvey to experience Pilgrimage. Here’s their schedule: Friday Shabbat Service at B’nai Jeshurun -Street Ministry @ St. Mary’s,…
