The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in the leadership of Ms. Haidi Fajardo with the FOCOLARE and FO GUANG SHAN Mabuhay Temple organized another Peace Camp for this year World Interfaith Harmony Week celebration with the theme: “Celebrating the Transforming Love of God and Neighbor for the Common Good,” in cooperation with Uni-Harmony Partners Manila. This activity were participated by the youth coming from different living faith like Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics, Aglipayans, and youth from the community of The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (Mormons). Present also in the activity were Rev. Fr. Richard James Babao and Rev. Fr. Carlos Reyes together with their youth parish ministry while the Ministry for Interreligious Dialogue Quiapo Church Brought also our SILPEACE CLUB composed of Muslims and Christians youth to join the said activity.
Like last year the Peace Camp was held at Philip’s sanctuary Antipolo City. Upon arrival at the place all were asked to rest for a while and to settle things down, after a while the youth where divided into 10 groups for the Peace building activity. For some of the participants it was a sort of reunion because they were able to see their teammates once again and for the first timer it was a chance for them to meet new people to make friends. The peace building activities were group’s needs to pass some obstacles course as a team, it is a game but in every obstacle there is something that they can learn from it. The groups that they belong to is not only for the games that they need to pass but they need to know each other’s differences so that they can work together as a team, making use of others ability and putting trust in others hands despite the differences that they have.
At the end of the day it was a very tiring activity for all of us but worth it, simply because all of us enjoyed each other’s company, making new friends differences in our believes does not limits us it only means that we need to cross our borders if we want peace and it is only possible if we work as one without biases and prejudices to one another. PADAYON!
