Join the Prairie Circle Unitarian Universalist
Congregation and Stanley Campbell for this worship service focused on how to
use our citizenship, rights and responsibilities to cultivate peace in the
world. He will relate stories of his travels with peace and volunteer
organizations to foreign lands (Bosnia, Nicaragua, Jerusalem, etc.), and lay
out his conviction that citizen participation in world politics is not only
possible, but necessary.
Childcare is available for ages up
to 3 and children’s religious education for preschool through high school runs
concurrent to the adult service.
activist in Rockford Illinois, Stanley Campbell was hired in 1985 as director
of Rockford Urban Ministries, an outreach of 23 congregations where he is paid
to do what he loves: peace work. A member of Veterans for Peace and a long-time
Rockford resident, he established a food pantry and founded Rockford Peace
& Justice Action Committee in 1983. Since being hired by Rockford Urban
Ministries Mr. Campbell has started many non-profit organizations, including
Promised Land Employment, Rockford Neighborhood Redevelopment, and Harm
Reduction Outreach, a needle exchange and outreach to street sex providers.
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