Summer 2020 Camp Theme: My Two Hands Hold The Earth
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.
We recognize that how we care for creation is just as important as how we care for our own wellbeing and that of others. This year's theme represents our larger commitment to doing our little part to help heal and renew the face of the earth. This summer, our campers will discover how being an earthkeeper is just one way that peace can begin with them. Not only will they explore methods of maintaining their own personal wellbeing but also learn ways that they can be peace leaders in their world through their actions towards others and our earth.
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.
We recognize that how we care for creation is just as important as how we care for our own wellbeing and that of others. This year's theme represents our larger commitment to doing our little part to help heal and renew the face of the earth. This summer, our campers will discover how being an earthkeeper is just one way that peace can begin with them. Not only will they explore methods of maintaining their own personal wellbeing but also learn ways that they can be peace leaders in their world through their actions towards others and our earth.
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 2020 Sites
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington (UUCA)
4444 Arlington Blvd, Arlington, VA Session 1: June 22nd - June 26th, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $325 Session 2: June 29th - July 2nd, 2020 (No camp on July 3rd) 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $275 Lunch included. Before-care and After-care services available! To register for UUCA camp, click here! Note: Ages 5 - 14 only at this site. Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville (UUCR) Date: July 20th- July 24th, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $275 To register for UUCR camp, click here! Note: Ages 5 - 14 only at this site. Greenbelt Greenbelt Community Church 1 Hillside Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770 July 13th - July 17th, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $275 To register for Greenbelt Camp, click here! |
Saint Camillus
July 27th - July 31st, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. *This is a closed site for parishioners of Saint Camillus Parish only Note: Ages 5 - 14 only at this site. Christ Congregational Church (CCC) of Silver Spring August 3rd - August 7th, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $275 Lunch NOT included. After-care services available! To register for CCC camp, click here! Mount Rainier St. John's Episcopal Church 4112 34th St, Mt Rainier, MD 20712 August 17th - August 21st, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Price: $275 Lunch NOT included. After-care services available! To register for Mount Rainier camp, click here! |
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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." |
