Hyde Park Mennonite Fellowship invited children to spend a week in July with us at our first ever Summer Peace Camp! Admission - free! 

HPMF values peace and justice in all forms: seeking peace, working for justice, building community, respecting diversity, and honoring Creation. We believe it is never too early to pass these practices onto young children. At Peace Camp, children will engage in activities that practice peace with themselves, peace with the earth, and peace with others. 

Objectives for the week included: 
1. To answer our call to peacemaking and make peacemaking a way of life.      
2. To develop skills for peacemaking including emotional intelligence, self-regulation, conflict resolution, cooperation, and creativity.
3. To celebrate individual and cultural differences of all people as members of God’s beloved family.
4. To strengthen connection and care for creation, as well as learn peacemaking skills through crafts, games, stories, and activities.

Peace Camp enrollment was open for children who have completed K through 4th grades. 

HPMF eagerly welcomes children and families from all walks of life, regardless of ethnic background, economic status, faith history, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical ability, or immigration status. All Peace Camp volunteers will have up-to-date background checks.