Peace begins in our own backyard. Since Art of Peace began, we have honored various community agencies that have created stability, offered support, shared love, made us stronger, and helped us heal. 

For 2019, the Art of Peace Honorees are the People of Tyler!

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Previous non-profits that have been Art of Peace honorees are:

2018 – Keep Tyler Beautiful
2017 – Habitat for Humanity of Smith County
2016 – Samaritan Counseling Center of East Texas
2015 – St. Pauls Children’s Foundation
2014 – East Texas Food Bank
2013 – East Texas Crisis Center
2012 – Literacy Council of East Texas
2011 – PATH

Art of Peace Prayer

Please feel free to use this prayer in your place of worship – as part of a communal prayer for peace.

ALL-INCLUSIVE ADAPTATION OF PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS 

Let me be an instrument of peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
May I not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying to self that we are born to life.
This week and all year long,
may I join others around the world,
as we strive to be active and faithful
instruments of peace.