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Ambassadors for Peace Business Leaders for Peace Conference
| Business Leaders for Peace Conference |
| Written by Bento Leal |
| Wednesday, 06 September 2006 23:00 |
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On Saturday evening, September 9, 2006, an Ambassadors for Peace Potluck Dinner was held at the Bay Area Family Church in San Leandro, California. Seventy Ambassadors for Peace and others enjoyed a delicious, multi-ethnic potluck dinner buffet featuring dishes from India, the Philippines, Japan, France, and other nations. This was followed by a new 14-minute AFP introductory video that showed the breadth of AFP activities worldwide, with particular focus on the important AFP work in the Middle East bringing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious leaders together to dialogue a pathway to peace.  After the video, we had group discussion by table focused on 2 questions: 1) What are you doing to promote peace? and 2) What can we do together to promote peace? This was followed by brief and inspiring reports by a spokesperson from each of the 8 tables.  
The highlight of the evening was the appointment of 7 new AFPs and their appreciation remarks. The evening closed with lively karaoke music with several people coming up to spontaneously entertain. It was really a very enjoyable family-style and engaging evening -- informal, yet uplifting and dignified. Several people said they wanted to do this again! There’s already talk of an outside luau in spring 2007. Stay tuned! Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites       |