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Kids4Peace

A nearly standing-room-only crowd joined the Brothers Sunday, July 17 in welcoming Jewish, Muslim and Christian kids to the monastery chapel. Twenty-four "Kids4Peace Boston" participants and their adult entourage attended a festive Sunday morning Eucharist and reception on the final day of their two-week program. Kids4Peace Boston is the newest local chapter in the international and interfaith Kids4Peace organization.

Founded by Dr. Henry Carse at St. George's College, Jerusalem, Kids4Peace gathers groups of kids from the Jerusalem and Ramallah area for several months of meetings in preparation for a two week visit to the United States in the summer.

Twelve kids from Jerusalem, evenly divided between the three Abrahamic faiths, meet twelve counterparts the same age (11-13) from the US for the summer portion of the program, comprised of a week at a summer camp in New Hampshire and a week spent in the Boston area. Prior to the kids' visit to the monastery, they visited a local mosque for Friday prayers and a synagogue for a Sabbath service.

Kids from our "extended family" delighted the congregation with a reading from Genesis in Hebrew, a reading from 1 Corinthians in Arabic, and just before departing, a few verses of a rousing Kids4Peace camp song (in Hebrew, Arabic and English).

Find out more about Kids4Peace and other local chapters at kids4peaceboston.org and kids4peaceusa.org.