Join IDOPP

Join International Day of Prayer for Peace

Receive an organizing packet with outreach ideas, organizing tips, liturgical resources, and information about Christian peacemaking.

Begin now to make plans for a public prayer event in your community on or around September 21, 2008.

Focus on the most central issues of violence and injustice that face your community.

Develop a strategy to invite people of many backgrounds together for a day of celebration, prayer, and alternative visions.

There are three phases in this effort: Before Sept 21; Sept 21 (day of); and After Sept 21.

BEFORE: Build NEW or DEEPER relationships with people in your community and gather info about what violence is impacting your neighborhoods (unemployment? drug abuse? racism? domestic violence? militarization of youth? war?)
ON SEPT 21: Hold a public prayer event including these new friends & partners, focusing on the kinds of violence you uncovered in your information-gathering, asking God for assistance, help, inspiration.
AFTER: Building on these new relationships, keep a magnifying glass on one or more of the forms of violence you identified. Help catalyze continued efforts to address them.

Become part of a network of others planning public events for September 21.

E-mail list will provide access to others organizing around the country
Frequent opportunities to join networking calls will let you hear stories and challenges faced by organizers around the country, and reflect together on next steps for planning.
On Earth Peace organizers will provide telephone support to assist your local efforts.

Learn how to make your organizing more powerful.
How can the way you organize for September 21 be part of a longer commitment to address violence and injustice in your community and the world? Find out!

Campaign members receive a registration discount for On Earth Peace’s 5-day Intensive Leadership Training in Nonviolent Social Conflict, slated for late 2008 or early 2009.

Are you ready to take it to the next level?
Do you want to learn or further hone your skills for organizing and mobilizing your community around its issues?
Participate in the Intensive Leadership Training which offers training in the philosophy and methodology of nonviolence in the tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr., in addition to daily worship and socio-theological reflection.

We ask for a campaign contribution from each congregation or community group to help defray the costs of material resources, organizing and support for the broader network.

Please consider a contribution of $25-250 depending on the size and financial means of your congregation or group – and recognize that money should not stand in the way of your participation.
Donate now! And make sure to designate your gift as IDOPP.