Peace Day Resources

Peace Day Ideas

Public prayer or celebration. Organize an event including prayer, cultural sharing, music, and art, to interrupt violence in your community, and to get your community talking together and praying for peace, on or near September 21. Plan a public event with people of your own faith tradition, or with people from various backgrounds. Share your concerns together about violence in your community and our world. Share each of your tradition’s teachings about peace. Seeks God’s power together to address the challenges you face. Check out On Earth Peace’s “Tips for Planning a Prayer Vigil,” or “Vigil or Event Planning Process,” below.

Kids as Peacemakers

Childrens’ Mural Project. Use On Earth Peace’s Kids as Peacemakers kit (to work with children in your community in the weeks before September 21 to create mural about peace and peacemaking. Display them on September 21 at a public event where you invite the kids with their families to share their visions. Order kit here.

Listening Initiative. The Anabaptist Network in South Africa used resources from On Earth Peace as a basis to knock on doors in Pietermaritzburg, asking people about their concerns and hopes for the neighborhood. Use a one-day or multiple day-effort to build relationship and collect stories about your neighbor experiences. Afterward, invite them to join in a public peace event. Review our Listening Initiative resources below.