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‘When we reach into the community, we bring people in’

Posted October 17th, 2019

After hearing social media feedback that parents were not enamored with Vacation Bible School offerings at nearby churches, Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, created from scratch its own Peace Camp. Thirty-one campers, including about 10 from the host church, took part in this year’s camp. With help from their neighbors, church members wrote the curriculum and staffed the five-hour-per-day, five-day event, spending one day each on a significant topic — gender, social class and poverty, race, migrants and care for the Earth.

‘When we reach into the community, we bring people in’

Posted August 9th, 2019

After hearing social media feedback that parents were not enamored with Vacation Bible School offerings at nearby churches, Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tenn., created from scratch its own Peace Camp, which it held last month.