Plant a Seed of Peace uses the analogy of growing seeds into plants as a way of describing how our part in peace can start little like a seed and produce much. It has 43 easy-to-read stories of peacemakers who have made choices in their lives that have grown and spread in an infectious way. They are a testimony of many lives that have made a difference by putting their faith into action. It ends by inviting the reader to plant a seed and imagine the possibilities of growth into a garden of peace. The peace stories span a large spectrum of lives from the life of Anneken Jans of Netherlands in the 1500s, who left all she had for her faith, to John Newcomer of Pennsylvania in the 1770s, who refused to make guns for the war, to Kasai Kapata of Zaire in the 1960s whose happiness throughout his persecution saved his life, to Taman and Ulis Petra of Indonesia in 2000 who showed love to those who couldn’t find it anywhere else by offering true hospitality.

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