S H A R I N G
World Peace Gatherings are about sharing your heart, your struggles, triumphs, your fears, your love. Your very presence is a gift to all of us…thank you for sharing. ~Winter 2009~
DID YOU KNOW?……the idea for World Peace Gardens was born on November 11th, 2007 (11/11/07) and that the organization received its non profit status in “record time” from the US Government in March, 2008? One night over dinner a gentleman who heard about the idea of World Peace Gardens and on the spot, gave $25,000.00 to “get the ball rolling”…our story has begun and you are part of this ongoing, unfolding story of creating world peace because you are here today!
LET’S CELEBRATE!
Sunday Gatherings are an important facet to creating together new levels of community focused on inner peace, oneness and world peace. After all “it takes a village”. Indeed it takes all of us to work, share and celebrate together on a regular basis. So let’s gather at 11AM every Sunday, rain or shine at the Green Valley Spa!
FESTIVALS!
There are two new festivals “in the works”. A spring festival will be The Zion Flute & Drum Festival, Celebrating the Rhythms of Mother Earth, May 15th-17th, 2009. The fall festival is called Peace by Peace, Celebrating Artists Celebrating Peace, to be scheduled sometime in early November.
To volunteer or participate in either of these events or other World Peace Gardens activities please contact us at: Events@WorldPeaceGardens.org Both festivals are fundraising events for World Peace Gardens. For more info, visit www.WorldPeaceGardens.org/festivals.
SOMEDAY…
Let’s create a World Peace Gardens, outdoor sanctuary dedicated to world peace in our area. Through land donations, volunteerism, any kind of support, just “spreading the word” can help create support for change through people creating community around peace, love and oneness. Kyle Kamalu is our donations manager, is now working on a Donations & Volunteer packet which will be on our web site. World Peace Gardens is a 501 (c)(3) organization so all donations are tax deductible. For more information check out our web site at: www.WorldPeaceGardens.org/donations or contact Kyle at (435) 632-4622 or kamalukyle@gmail.com.
GRASS ROOTS…
community is the birthplace of change and world peace. Creating change in our world begins within your own heart and in your own back yard. For example putting together a block party for your neighborhood and calling it a “Peace Block Party”, you could have a “Peace Parade” with “Peace Punch & Cookies”. It’s a great way to build neighbor friendships and cooperation around oneness and peace. Or how about a “World Peace Community Garden”, growing herbs, fruits and veggies or creating a native plant garden to help inform people about the natural world. There are many great ways to “share the love” and bring people together through the healing and nurturing activities of working with the earth. For world peace to really happen, it needs to be an ongoing choice within each of us and through interaction with others around the message of oneness and world peace… one back yard, one neighborhood, one garden at a time.
SPEAKING OF NEIGHBORHOODS…
World Peace Gatherings are “sprouting” in other locations at this time. A Gatherings Packet/Manual is being created to help others start World Peace Gatherings in their area. This packet of information will eventually be on our web site as a PDF file and available for free to anyone, anywhere on the planet through the World Wide Web! A few of the places where people are getting more involved in the process of creating world peace within their communities are Virgin, Utah, Phoenix , AZ, Moab , UT, Truchas, NM and Oslo, Norway.
LET’S COMMUNICATE!
To keep you informed about all our gatherings, events and activities just add your name and information to our email list, we’ll put you in our database and we don’t give/or sell your information. Email us at: Info@WorldPeaceGardens.org.
THANK YOU!
We could thank so many people for helping get World Peace Gatherings “off the ground” but we really want to say a HUGE “thank you!” to Green Valley Spa for generously donating their beautiful facilities for the World Peace Gatherings. Thank you so much Alan & Carole Coombs and Mike Rice for creating such a wonderful place and sharing it with all of us! For more information on Green Valley Spa, check out their amazing web site at: www.GreenValleySpa.com.
BTW: Carole recommends these books:
Walking a Sacred Path by Dr. Lauren Artress and The 8tth Chakra by Jude Currian PHD
And remember World Peace Gardens folks get a 10% discount on all books & merchandise at the Green Valley Bookstore! AND a shout out to Xetava Gardens Café of Ivins/Kayenta for donating your organic coffees for our Meet & Greet at our Sunday Gatherings! www.Xetava.com
World Peace Gardens
Creating Community, Celebrating Peace
Web: www.WorldPeaceGardens.org
Email: Gatherings@WorldPeaceGardens.org
For more information about World Peace Gatherings please contact: Janice Brooks at: (702) 521-2635 or Daniel Pettegrew at: (435) 703-0077
Thank You!
