Friends Peace Teams is hosting a global gathering November 13-16 online to share and celebrate what has been happening among their network of peacemakers in the last year. You can see all the details and register here. The theme this year is Justice and peace are possible! What sustains your faith in justice and peace in the face of violence and war?

Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led, non-hierarchical network of Regional Teams that share justice and peace work in their regions, supported by Yearly Meeting Representatives and Local and Global Support Teams collaborating on a Global Coordinating Team.

Friends are being invited to participate in a variety of ways, the easiest being by attending one or several of the online Zoom sessions where you can hear reports from team members working in the various global regions. Each session is offered twice to accommodate different time zones. Languages offered: English, Kiswahili, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Indonesian, and Korean. You can register here for the various sessions offered below.

• Session 1 – Regional Teams Update: African Great Lakes / Europe and Middle East
  Wednesday, November 13 8:00am-10:00am EST or 12:00pm-2:00pm EST
• Session 2 – Regional Teams Update: Peacebuilding en las Américas/ North America
  Wednesday, November 13 7:00pm-9:00pm EST or Thursday, November 14 12:00pm-2:00pm EST
• Session 3 – Regional Team Update: Asia West Pacific
  Thursday, November 14 7:00-8:15 pm EST or 2:00am-3:15am EST
• Session 4 – FPT Global Celebration! Support Teams and Quaker Yearly Meetings Sharing
  Friday, November 15 7:00pm-9:00pm EST or Saturday November 16 9:00am-11:00am EST

Other ways to get involved include hosting a discussion of the latest issue of PeaceWays with your Meeting or community group to help prepare for the annual sessions. Also, Friends are being invited to share their response to the theme.

Respond to the Theme: Justice and peace are possible! What sustains your faith in justice and peace in the face of violence and war? What brings you hope, joy, and resilience? You can send a 2-3-minute video or 240-word statement with your name, age, country, and sessions you plan to attend to: peaceministries@friendspeaceteams.org Subject: FPT Theme Response

Within LEYM, our Friends Peace Team Representative is Don Buckingham. He has offered to collate and share our theme reflections at the gathering during Session 4. He would like short one or two sentence responses to the theme sent to him via donabuckingham@gmail.com