Mary Joan and Jerry Park
Directors
4405 29th St.
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
(301) 927-5474
mjpeace(at)gmail.com

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Spring 2009     

                     Peace Education Oasis  

   

             

 

Little Friends for Peace (LFFP) is initiating its first-ever Capital Campaign to finance a Peace Education Oasis in Accokeek, Maryland. The purpose of the Oasis will be to welcome Washington-Baltimore area children into an experience of peace close to the earth and into the skills of peacemaking.

  
LFFP Co-Founders Mary Joan (MJ) and Jerry Park have shared the dream of creating a Peace Education Oasis ever since MJ's family sold the residential camp that MJ directed 28 years ago. Since the sale of “Sundance Ranch,” they have traveled the nation directing inter-generational peace day-camps and after-school clubs for kids, giving workshops for teachers, parents, and families, and publishing three guidebooks on teaching nonviolence.

The Parks’ dedication to living out St. Francis' call to "live simply, courageously, joyfully and always in conversion" and to Mahatma Gandhi’s proclamation that “If we truly want peace, we must start with the children” has been well recognized.  This year, Pax Christi USA is honoring them as the 2008 Peace Educators of the Year..
  

Receiving this award has motivated the Parks to make their dream of creating the  Peace Education Oasis a reality.

MJ & Jerry have heard a call to provide people thirsting for peace with a Peace Education Oasis.They have found a wooded 5-acre property in Piscataway National Park (20 miles south of Washington, DC)

  • a home whose rooms will become a spacious meeting/dining area, a peace museum and a peace library that accommodate small group 'home bases', a small group or family sleeping area
  • a heated garage for young large-group activities, art/work shop and bike shop
  • a windowed garage that will become a hermitage/prayer room
  • a mini-barn and pasture for small animals
  • a fenced garden and a play field
  • one mile from the Colonial Farm and organic garden staffed by educators from the Accokeek Foundation

Is this Peace Education Oasis a dream you want to help make happen?  Please do!

Here's how:

Your tax-deductible pledge or donation is crucial to complete the commitments of our original supporting alumni. We have the confidence to go forward because of you. With you we will persist in using, teaching and spreading the skills of transforming conflict into opportunity – at the Oasis and in all social and political areas of our lives.

 

LFFP Oasis Pledge GOAL:

$5000 a month

 

Dorothy Day Award

$25/month- Subscription to newsletter

Rosa Parks Award

$50/month - Newsletter and LFFP T-Shirt

MLK Award

$100/month- Newsletter, T-shirt, and an autographed conflict resolution publication of your choice by MJ Park

Gandhi Award

$250/month- Newsletter, T-shirt, complete collection of educational publications autographed by MJ Park.

   Nobel Peace Prize

$500/month- Newsletter, T-shirt, complete autographed Park book collection and an inscribed tile on Peace Oasis Dedication Block

Other Options

Please give in whatever way you can. Give a one-time donation, purchase a book, or buy a t-shirt. Volunteer at camps, offer services or provide furniture for the new Oasis facility. Get involved in creating Peace!

  

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Or download a brochure here and mail in your pledge!

LFFP Peace Oasis Brochure

Photos of the Oasis and Piscataway National Park. 

Call us with your questions and for a tour of the proposed Peace Education Oasis, directed by Little Friends for Peace.  We hope the germ of our excitement will spread to you!

Peace to you,
Jerry Park, Co-Director, Email: littlefriendsforpeace@yahoo.com
and Tommy Park, Development Director, Email: tf.park@gmail.com