Creating Circles of Peace:   Alternatives to Violence Kits for Christian Churches

Other Alternative to Violence Kits are available for Public Schools K-5 and Christian Schools.

Both English and Spanish Church Kits:

• Offer positive, concrete action options for preventing violence, and for confronting the violence families, teachers and students face in the community, the media, school and home.
• Provide easy, practical and engaging activities for each Pledge component and a clear step-by-step process for implementing the Pledge.
• Link you to nationwide efforts to prevent and reduce violence through the Families Against Violence Advocacy Network.
• Offer hundreds of suggestions for breaking down racial barriers and confronting the violence of racism and the other "isms" that are the roots of violence in our society.
• Cost very little -- The English language Church Kit is only $99.95 (Separately, the contents are worth $152.00)

Contents of the Church Kit in English:

• A Planning Guide and a Calendar for implementing a violence prevention program in your congregation.
• Kids Creating Circles of Peace children's workbook.
• Families Creating a Circle of Peace booklet; A Call to Peace: 52 Meditations; Families Caring intergenerational leaders guide; Teaching Peace audio cassette; and more than 100 video resource suggestions!
• Especially helpful for helping youth deal with what it means to be a peacemaker after 9/11:  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.
• Building a Culture of Peace Begins with the Children, a vacation Bible School program.
• Samples of sermons and worship services.  Outlines for workshops, retreats and family camps.  Models of how parishes and congregations have implemented a violence prevention program.
• Pledge of Nonviolence prayer cards.

Contents of the Church Kit in Spanish:

• A new planning guide and a calendar for implementing a violence prevention program in your congregation.
• Family and School Pledges of Nonviolence and 25 prayer cards.
• Five copies of Familias Creando un Circulo de Paz booklet.
• Pamphlets on nonviolent toys and play, on domestic violence, and on how we can all confront violence courageously.
• Outlines for workshops, retreats and programs celebrating family and building peace within families.

Also for Catholic Parishes--

• Comunion y Mision (a bi-lingual book on forming small faith communities).
• Denunciando la Violencia (packet of materials on the "Stand Against Violence Week" program).