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This past summer, while working as an intern for the JPB EXCEL adult program in Vermont, I had the privilege of listening and participating in daily workshops, dialogues, and activities. For two weeks, I was surrounded by twenty-five Israeli, Palestinian, and American role models who don't just believe in peace, but are spending their life actually doing something about it. I learned about politics in the Middle East, I challenged my personal values and stereotypes about the

Last week in Jerusalem, JPB introduced four Christian, Muslim, and Jewish program alumni to a delegation of fourteen adult peacebuilders and dialogue facilitators from the Compassionate Listening Project (CLP) for a special evening of dialogue and sharing. With the guiding question,"how does the situation in Israel/Palestine affect you?", the teens not only spoke at length about their hopes and concerns for the future, but also gave testimony to the impactful learning experie

As part of following through with JPB's Service-Learning program, participants were tasked with taking their service speeches back to their home communities and sharing them with family, friends, and neighbors, thus reaffirming their commitment to leadership and peacebuilding. At the Sts. Tarkmanchatz Armenian School in Jerusalem, three alumni had the opportunity to present their speeches to their classmates during both an all-school assembly and our recent adult pilgrimage i

In late October and early November, twenty-five Christian pilgrims from Houston's Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian church traveled to the Holy Land with JPB co-founders, Canon Nicholas Porter and Stuart and Angie Kensinger. Our journey began with the Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem , and Jesus' Nativity, and it ended with the Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. We visited and prayed at holy sites in Bethlehem, the Judean Desert, the Galilee,