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Christian High School and Youth Group

Planning Guide and Teachers Manual

• A practical guide for creating a school-wide program around the Youth Pledge of Nonviolence, with clear implementation steps, helpful models, a peacemaking calendar, inspirational overview essay and helpful evaluation instrument

• Creative activities and readings for a whole course around the 7 components of the Youth Pledge or for integrating the Pledge into existing courses/programs

• New inspirational and action-oriented units on Images of Peacemaking, the Violence of War, the Violence of Poverty, Racism, Hate Violence, and Violence Against Women.

• Especially helpful for educators who want to help youth deal with what it means to be a peacemaker after 9/11. Includes If Only Today You Knew...  The Things That Make for Peace, a unique 125-page resource binder for teachers and youth ministers, covering Images of Peace and the Pledge of Nonviolence and Responding to the Violence of Terrorism and War.

• Includes a copy of A Call to Peace:  52 Meditations of the Pledge of Nonviolence and a special magazine entitled Can Love Save the World?

Sample activities:

• Youth as Prophets (excerpt)

• Also includes the sample activities from "If Only Today You Knew the Things that Make for Peace (for Christian High Schools & Youth Groups," which is integrated into the Teachers' Manual segment:

  • The Courageous Nonviolence of Jesus: Biblical passages on nonviolence

  • Prayer Service on the Nonviolence of Jesus: litany

  • The Hurricane Story: essay on "struggle" in justice work

  • Be the Best We Can Be: essay on patriotism

  • In the Face of Escalating Violence, Escalate Love: sermon on the prophet Habakkuk and 9/11

400 pages.-- $49.95