Summer 2019 Camp Theme: Circle Up to Find Peace!
Peace Camp provides children (ages 4-14) with the opportunity to explore cooperation and conflict resolution in safe and supportive environments. Peace camp has always been about creating inclusive environments where campers, counselors and staff can experience, learn, and practice peace in ways our culture may not facilitate.
This year, we are emphasizing the need for including others in our own personal journeys of peace. While peace is defined differently by each individual, Peace Circles and sharing allow us to connect with others and foster communities of hope, healing, compassion, and empathy. Peace Camp not only allows participants to explore methods of maintaining their own personal wellbeing but also shows them ways that they can be peace leaders in their world and include others on their path to peace.
Peace Camp is a highly interactive experience, where campers are taught the skills needed to deal with their problems in a peaceful manner and are encouraged to create solutions to the problems they see in the world. Activities at camp typically included:
Peace Camp provides children (ages 4-14) with the opportunity to explore cooperation and conflict resolution in safe and supportive environments. Peace camp has always been about creating inclusive environments where campers, counselors and staff can experience, learn, and practice peace in ways our culture may not facilitate.
This year, we are emphasizing the need for including others in our own personal journeys of peace. While peace is defined differently by each individual, Peace Circles and sharing allow us to connect with others and foster communities of hope, healing, compassion, and empathy. Peace Camp not only allows participants to explore methods of maintaining their own personal wellbeing but also shows them ways that they can be peace leaders in their world and include others on their path to peace.
Peace Camp is a highly interactive experience, where campers are taught the skills needed to deal with their problems in a peaceful manner and are encouraged to create solutions to the problems they see in the world. Activities at camp typically included:
- Art
- Cooperative Games
- Special Guests
- Peace Building Pledge
- Learning about peace makers and how each one of us can follow their example and spread peace
Summer 2019 Sites
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington
(UUCA) 4444 Arlington Blvd, Arlington, VA Session 1: June 24th - June 28th, 2019 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $325 Session 2: July 1st - July 5th, 2019 (No camp on July 4th) 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $275 Lunch included. Before-care ($25) and After-care($85) services available! To register for camp at UUCA, click here. Cheverly 2801 Cheverly Ave, Cheverly, MD July 22nd - July 26th, 2019 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Price: $250 Simple lunch included. To register for camp at Cheverly, click here. |
Saint Francis International School*
(formerly known as Saint Camillus) Silver Spring, MD July 29th - August 2nd, 2019 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lunch included. *This is a closed site for parishioners of Saint Camillus. Mount Rainier St. John's Episcopal Church 4112 34th Street, Mt. Rainier, MD 20712 August 19th – August 23rd, 2019 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $275 Lunch not included. After-care ($85) services available! To register for camp at Mount Rainier, click here. Christ Congregational Church (CCC) Silver Spring, MD August 5th – August 9th, 2019 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $275 Lunch not included. After-care services ($85) available! To register for camp at CCC, click here. |
Click here to read our 2019 Camp Brochure!
For more information about camps, scholarships, or if you have questions, please contact us at peacecamp@lffp.org.
Interested in working at Peace Camp? Check out our staff opportunities.
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Peace Camp Poetry
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A poem by Jonathan Harness "I can see the sun Through the clouds I've broken Evaporating the walls of my cage I set forth Taking the path least traveled Because I blaze it as I go Putting prints behind me Party grows larger Because I hold my hands out Pull people from the Rapids Share the herbs I've picked up along my way Remedy everything With an open hand and an explorer's machete." |
Peace Transformer
By Leila Park, age 12 "We are peace transformers not robots, not cars even though that would be cool but we still transform, we still change we change hate to love we change racism into equality we change war to peace even though we are not robots or cars we are peace transform." |
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What Is Peace?
A poem by Piper Powell "What is peace? Peace is a single breath that becomes stronger when we work together. Peace is the choice that everyone has to make. Are you going to choose violence... or peace? Peace is a voice that has been forgoten, but is rembered thanks to peacemakers all around us. Peace is the fire that brings warmth back to us after a deadly war full of regrets. Peace are new eyes you can look through like I did and so many others. Peace is all those things and more." |
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