Our Peace Pole reflects our commitment to
peacemaking, and is a place for individual
reflection and community gathering.
The Peace Pole Project was started by the
World Peace Society, a non-profit,
non-sectarian organization dedicated to
uniting people across the world through the
universal saying: “May peace prevail on
earth”. Since 1985, over 200,000 Peace Poles
have been dedicated in over 190 countries
around the world. They are found in town
squares, in places of worship, in parks and
city halls and schools – any place where the
spirit of peace is embraced by people of good
will. A Peace Pole was dedicated in Salt Lake
City during the 2002 Winter Olympics; there
is one at the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima,
and at the Magnetic North Pole, and at Robben
Island in South Africa.
The pole is a four-sided eight foot red cedar post.
The phrase, “May Peace Prevail On Earth”, is carved
on each side in a different language. We have
chosen English, Hebrew, Spanish and Miwok as the
languages most representative of our faith
tradition and our community.
Placed in our front lawn, it’s visible from the
road, a sign to all who pass by of our hope in the
biblical vision of shalom, when “all people shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruning hooks”, when “nation shall not lift up
sword against nation; neither shall they learn war
anymore.”