Alive Community Outreach
Alive Community Outreach is a faith-based organization with a mission to cultivate a community of nonviolence through relationships and education. We support families impacted by homicide and partner with schools to train high school students as peacemakers, building a culture of peace through violence prevention, restorative intervention, and survivor support. Rooted in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence, we maintain that violence is ultimately a symptom of deeper issues that must be addressed in order to bring about lasting change. For more information go to: https://alivefw.org
Watch a video about founder Rev. Angelo Mante’s inspiration to start ALIVE.
Angelo will also be our Keynote Speaker during our Tuesday Imagine! A Morning of Sparking, Stirring, and Serving.
How you can help
These items will be collected at Annual Conference. Monetary contributions can be made by check or credit card during the worship offering or through the AC website offering page.
Art supplies for the Peace Room at each school: Students often do art tributes to peace, to lost family or friends, or just as a processing tool for getting into a more peaceful frame of mind. We’d love to equip the Peace Rooms at all the high schools with more supplies. Specific ideas are: Colored pencils, markers, pens, paper in different colors, glue, and paint pens that can paint on walls, as they often do murals.
Snacks for the Peace Rooms: Snacks offer an inviting sense of welcome to the peace room for group activities and for kids who may just be hungry. Any kind of individually packaged, shelf-stable snacks that people think teens would enjoy are welcome.
Feminine products for Peace Rooms: Students are often caught without products and this is another resource we can have available to help the space feel welcoming and supportive.
Book for participants in Kingian Nonviolence training or the Peace Family:
Healing Resistance, by Kazu Haga. Available from Brethren Press.
Book for program participants:
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, by David Kessler. Available from Brethren Press.