Brian McLaren: “[the Peace Tree/ EPYC team] are beautiful examples of this new breed of emerging integral leaders.”

EPYC and WOTP are teaming up to give you $50 of free downloads from the www.workofthepoeple.com website including clips EPYC uses in our peace award winning youth empowerment programs. What do you need to do?

Nothing.

We’ll send out the code you enter at the checkout for $50 of downloads (free!) next Monday via our EPYC facebook group. Like Grace, all you need to do is accept the gift and live into it. :)

Choose clips such as the one featuring Brian McLaren above, or from people like Milli Sandy, Stanley Hauerwas, Diana Butler Bass, Leroy Barber, Claudio Oliver, Marva Dawn,  Peter Rollins, Walter Breuggemann and others…  Enjoy!

Wondering what EPYC is?

“EPYC!” [Empowering Peacemakers in Your Community] is a multi-award winning youth initiative that last year alone ran workshops with over 8,000 high school students on what a spirituality of transformative nonviolence might mean for their lives and our world’s most pressing problems.

Here’s what others are saying about EPYC:

“Around the world there is an emerging generation of young leaders who are rediscovering the radical implications of Jesus’ message and are letting their lives speak of these alternatives to the cycles of violence, poverty and environmental destruction. Jarrod McKenna is one such leader Australia has to offer, and his EPYC program promises to empower many more.” -Rev. Tim Costello (CEO of World Vision Australia)

“One of the doctors I met in Iraq said (with tears in his eyes), ‘This violence is for people who have lost thier imagination.’ …the good people of EPYC are prophets of imagination. They are on a mission to create new heroes and sheroes and to reclaim God’s dream for this world.” Shane Claiborne

“When people ask ‘What can we do about the state of the world?’, Jarrod’s program [EPYC] is one small but hopeful answer.” -William Cavanaugh 

“In my travels around the world, I see a lot to inspire cynicism -including a lot of shabby religious stuff I’d rather not even give examples of. But I also meet people who inspire hope and courage in me -emerging young leaders who “get” Jesus’ message of the kingdom of God, and who are living it and giving it away. They see the integral nature of mission - that it brings together God and humanity, humanity and creation, grace and nature, contemplation and action, evangelism and social justice, faith and politics, the making of disciples and the making of peace.  Jarrod McKenna and friends are beautiful examples of this new breed of emerging integral leaders. I thank God for them. May their tribe increase!” -Brian McLaren