Festival of Peace

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) will host its fourth annual Festival of Peace Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 from 1:00 to 5:00 in Upper Nyack, New York. The popular event, which has attracted more than 400 residents of Rockland County and the lower Hudson Valley for the past three years, is FOR’s open house. The community is invited to enjoy the beautiful grounds of Shadowcliff, tour FOR’s national headquarters and learn more about the mission and programs. This year the theme of the festival, “Peace in the Human Family/Peace with the Earth,” will be celebrated with live international music, poetry, performance art, special activities and entertainment for children, plus a mixed media art exhibit and sale that features the work of local artists.

“We want to salute and commend you in your work for peacemaking,” proclaimed the Reverend Edwin Makue, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, at the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s (FOR) Festival of Peace. “Your wonderful commitment to building peace and justice is an inspiration to us.”

In what is probably my favorite blog, "Happening Here?" by Jan Adams, earlier this week (9/12) the author discussed the inability/unwillingness of the Democratic Party leadership to work effectively to end the war.

Today, a delegation arrived in the United States from the World Council of Churches (WCC), an ecumenical body representing 560 million Christians across the globe.

The Festival of Peace is this weekend! If you live in the New York area, we hope you will join us at the Fellowship of Reconciliation's national headquarters in Nyack for this event to celebrate the peace community. Below is detailed information about this weekend's festivities.

Last week I sent out an e-mail update on our Festival of Peace, coming up in four weeks! Today is the last day to buy an ad in the festival journal, which is a great way to show your support for FOR and our award winners.

Here are some of the festival highlights...

The Fellowship of Reconciliation will be hosting the third annual Festival of Peace on Sunday, September 16th at our national headquarters in Upper Nyack, New York. The popular event, which has attracted 400 residents of the lower Hudson Valley in each of the past two years, will this year crown a four-day stretch of peace-centered activities being coordinated by FOR with other community groups in the region.

For more info, read on or see this press release.

A Festival of Peace by the Hudson
A Weekend of Festivities
September 13-16, 2007