Presbyterian Mission Agency peace camp Archives

Peace Camp teach-in encourages grassroots activism

Posted June 19th, 2020

What’s an activist for social and racial justice to do when a global pandemic turns the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly into an online proceeding with a significantly streamlined agenda? Answer: Encourage Presbyterians to fight for justice at the grassroots level, including in their own communities.

‘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.

Blessed are the Peace Campers

Posted July 4th, 2019

Since 1998, children ages 6 to 12 have been gathering at Littlefield Presbyterian Church in Dearborn, Michigan, to work together to build peace at home, at school, in their communities and around the world.