Archive for November 2009
Dedication of the Allanton Sanctuary Garden Gate-Dumfries, Scotland
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 L to R: Glenda Thorton, Fumi Johns-Stewart, Dagmar Berkenberg, Caroline Uchima, Jessica Shackelton and Sculptor, Richared Brockbank At The World Peace Prayer Society- Allanton Sanctuary, each totem guardian for the garden gate embodies an element from nature and the animal kingdom. A planetary guardian carved from Hawthorn, watches over from one…
Read MorePeace Poles in Syria and Doenrade
November-2008 Last year I was in Syria and to my great surprise and joy I saw a Peace Pole in the desert in Palmyra. Very special place! Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus. It has long been a vital caravan city for travelers crossing the Syrian Desert and was…
Read MoreFlag Ceremony at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY-USA
November 18, 2009 Staff members, Jim Dugan, Linda Gebbia and Ann Marie Williams of The World Peace Sanctuary were asked to present a World Peace Flag Ceremony. Hundreds of students gathered in the student lounge at Vassar College in celebration of the annual gathering, Kaleidoscope! This event started 5 years ago by the Vassar International…
Read MoreWPPS presents Peace Pole to Oahu Coast Guard-Hawaii-USA
November 18th, 2009 The Acting 14th District Commander Capt. Bill Marhoffer and Chaplain Lt. Cmdr. Carl Barnes accepted on behalf of the entire Coast Guard Hawaii Ohana a Peace Pole from the World Peace Prayer Society on Wednesday, Nov. 18th, 2009. Representatives from all of the 14th District’s operational units attended the ceremony in which…
Read MorePeace Pole Project in Bridgeport, Connecticut-USA
September 21st, 2009 Black Rock Branch Library 2705 Fairfield Ave Bridgeport, CT 06605-3043 English, Spanish, Japanese, and American Sign Language (ASL) Monday, November 10th, 2008 St Ann School 521 Brewster St Bridgeport, CT 06605-3496 English, Creole, Italian, and Aramaic In honor of Veteran’s Day September 22, 2008 Black Rock Elementary School 545…
Read MorePeace Pals Coordinator plants Peace Pole, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
2004 to current It all started when we saw our first Peace Pole at the Mercy Center in Madison, CT in 2004. We decided to plant a Peace Pole in our front garden and purchased one in the summer of 2005. A day or two after school started in late August 2005, a press release…
Read MorePoem from Peace Pals youth, Bridgeport, CT-USA
2009 This poem was written by a 6th grade student from Blackrock Elementary School in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Peace Peace is when you hear your breathing. You go to your happy place. You don’t think about destruction. You think about love and kindness. This is what we say and practice in Peace Pals. May Peace…
Read MorePeace Pals™: Nurturing Inner Peace and Global Awareness in Youth Around the World! USA
6th Grade 2nd Grade 5th Grade 2005 to current— Peace Pals™ is an International program of The World Peace Prayer Society. Peace Pals is designed to encourage youth, ages 5-19 to become peacemakers dedicated to living in the spirit of the words, May Peace Prevail On Earth. Here are 3 Peace Pals groups. Students from…
Read MoreWPPS at Neale Donald Walsch Workshop-Austria
October-2009 The Humanity’s Team is a spiritual movement whose purpose is to communicate and implement the belief that we are all one, one with God and one with life, in a shared global state of being, so that the behavior of humanity may shift to reflect this understanding. Dubbed “a civil rights movement for…
Read More1000 students of Oldham join for World Peace Flag Ceremony-Scotland
October 20th and 21st, 2009 The children of Oldham have been busy! Glenda and I presented a World Peace Flag Ceremony at Knowsley Junior School as part of their Community Week on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009. 500 Children took part in a World Peace Flag Ceremony at their playground before lunch.…
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