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- SEPTEMBER 1-24, 2022
- SEPTEMBER 1-30, 2022 (and beyond)
Event: Inside Peace documentary film viewing
Venue: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ7NglTSyGE)
About: Inmates find peace while inside a Texas prison through a peace education program now used worldwide with amazing results. First viewed during PeaceQuest 2016 due to the friendship between Greater Lansing PeaceQuester Candice Wilmore and film director Cynthia Fitzpatrick. This film was released in August 2021 for online viewing.
Cost: Free.
Website: https://tprf.org/inside-peace-movie/
- SEPTEMBER 1-30, 2022 (and beyond)
Event: Webinar – “Our Challenge: Breaking Through Fear and Hate to Forge a New Way”; webinar; recording; available on demand.
Venue: online
About: In our current dangerous ‘political’ climate, we need to stretch ourselves – to better understand how and why “the other half” of people think and act the way they do, and better understand the evidence of our own biases that can be part of the problem. This webinar presents a big picture framework that can be helpful in our efforts to confront violence and heal our broken world. Presented by MPT’s co-founder, Peter Dougherty. This webinar took place in May 2021 for online viewing.
Host: Meta Peace Team
Website: www.metapeaceteam.org/webinars
Cost: Free
- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Event: Culver’s Donate While You Dine! – Fundraiser for UNICEF! *Help Refugee Children – All funds raised will be 5x matched! *
Location: Culver’s, 8848 West Saginaw Hwy, Lansing, MI
Time: 5pm–9pm
About: Online Ordering, Drive-Thru, or Dine-In (no flyer or code needed)
Go to Culvers.com to order online. The more sales, the larger the donation from Culver’s!
Hosts: GL-UNA and PeaceQuest 2022
Website: https://www.culvers.com/restaurants/lansing-saginaw
Flier: Culver’s Fundraiser for UNICEF Flier
- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Event: Just Poetry: A Community Conversation About Isolation and Incarceration
Location: Robin Theatre, 1105 S. Washington Ave. Lansing, MI 48910
Time: 7pm (Doors open at 6:30PM.)
Cost: Free. Donations accepted.
Hosts: Lansing Poetry Club and Citizens for Prison Reform
Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/723289982107755
- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
Event: Yoga & Hike for Peace
Host: Shiloh Daum of Peoples Yoga
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Cost: Free
Location: Fenner Nature Center, Camp Area
2020 East Mount Hope Avenue, Lansing, MI 48910. Park in the lot just east of the main entrance. Watch for the PeaceQuest banner.
Flyer: Peace Yoga Hike
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Event: Sermon on Peace, Rick Blunt, Pastor, Okemos Community Church. Includes a special choral piece written in commemoration of September 11, 2001.
Time: 10am
Location: 4734 Okemos Rd., Okemos. In-person and live streamed on Facebook.
Website: http://www.okemosocc.org for additional details about indoor worship at OCC. For sermon live stream and video go to https://www.facebook.com/okemoscommunitychurch. On YouTube, search for “Okemos CC”.
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Event: Peace Pavers Art Event
About: Create a Peace Paver / Steppingstone – Activity for families, youth, and kids
Location: 4734 Okemos Rd., Okemos, MI – in the OCC Circle Parking Lot
Time: 11:15 am
Cost: $15 (pay on the day of the event)
Host: Okemos Community Church
Registration: Click here (Preregistration required. Register Today–Space is Limited!)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/okemoscommunitychurch/
Event Flyer: Peace Paver flyer
- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12; TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (Event on Sep. 20 is cancelled); MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Event: Sew School Bags for Church World Service School Kits – UN Sustainability Development Goal 4: Quality Education
Location: 4734 Okemos Rd., Okemos, MI 48864
Time on 9/12: 1 pm – 4 pm; Time on 9/26: 1 pm – 4 pm
Cost: Free
Host: Okemos Community Church, “Sew Much More” group
Event Flyer: SEW SCHOOL BAGS flyer
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
Event: A service dedicated to peace. The scripture is the call of Abram from Genesis 12:1-9.
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Host: The Presbyterian Church of Okemos
Location: 2258 Bennett Road, Okemos, MI 48864.
Website: https://www.okemospres.org/
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
Event: Moldovan Luncheon and Education Hour
About: Come and learn about how more than 83,000 Ukrainian refugees are being resettled in Moldova, the poorest country in Europe and enjoy some foods from the region.
Host: Friends of Moldova, The Presbyterian Church of Okemos
Time: 11:30am
Cost: Free (Donations are encouraged. All proceeds will go to further support the efforts of Friends of Moldova.)
Location: 2258 Bennett Road, on the corner of Okemos Road, in Okemos.
Event Website: https://www.okemospres.org/event/moldovan-ukrainian-meal/
- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Event: Culver’s Donate While You Dine! – Drive-Thru, Online Ordering, and Dining Room! Fundraiser for Friends of CROP – Greater Lansing CROP Hunger Walk
Time: 5 pm – 9 pm
Location: 5140 Times Square Pl, Okemos, MI
Hosts: Members of Friends of CROP – Greater Lansing CROP Hunger Walk Planning Team
Flier: Friends of CROP Flyer
Event Website: https://events.crophungerwalk.org/2022/event/lansingmi
- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Event: Special PeaceQuest Greater Lansing Java Cafe’ Global Conversation
- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Event: Song of Welcome: A Fundraiser for the Refugee Development Center
About: Featuring Judy Kabodian, Rich Illman, Sally Potter, former Lansing Poet Laureate Laura Apol, Ulyana Maystrenko, Ruelaine Stokes & the Refuge Lansing Photographic Exhibit.
Host: Lansing Poetry Club
Time: 4-6pm
Cost: Free (Donations are encouraged. All donations go to the Refugee Development Center.)
Location: University United Methodist Church Sanctuary, 1120 S. Harrison Rd., East Lansing
- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Event: Reading, A Pathway to Peace and Justice ~ Preparing a Future of Peacemakers
About: How do we encourage our youth to be peacemakers? Mary Hennessey will introduce children’s books that encourage peace and understanding. Author, Chibuzor Charles Agomuoh, will discuss his recent book “Rising at Sunrise”: A youth engagement book on soft skill development highlighting 55 inspiring real-life stories of individuals of African descent residents in 26 countries.”
Presenters:
-Chibuzor Charles Agomuoh, Specialist at the Community Engagement Exchange Program of IREX & Executive Director at The SunRise Youth Intervention Organisation
-Mary Spirito Hennessey, Director of the Volunteer English Tutoring Program at Michigan State University, librarian for 30 years, Coordinator of LATTICE Book Club
- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Event: Olivet College Service Day and “FLAGS FOR PEACE”
Location: Olivet College, 320 S Main, Olivet, MI 49076
Co-Hosts: Olivet College Service Learning Office and the Olivet Office of Inclusion
Who: All are welcome
Schedule:
– At 8:30 a.m., gather at the Square to write a peace message on a flag. Place the flag along the walkway.
– President Corey will open Service Day and PeaceQuest with comments about the importance of Service Day and World Peace.
– A prayer for international peace and peace in the United States.
– Classes, teams, clubs and organizations leave campus and provide a service to the surrounding communities.
– All gather together for lunch on campus at noon.
- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022
- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022
- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2022