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Welcome to Navigating Peace: A Student’s Journey Into Peacemaking. We are thankful you are stepping into this journey. We know this experience will change hearts and contribute to positive and deeper relationship building. At Amplify Peace we listen, learn, and live differently. On this journey, you and your students will listen to God, explore self, and listen to stories of “the other”. The other can be anyone who may be different than you. You will be encouraged to dig deeply into your personal space and explore what you are called into on the journey of peacemaking. This exploration will be different for each person. In a relatively short period of time, two weeks, transformation will ...

Oftentimes people ask if they could go back in time and start over again, would they change anything? I've always been taught that God doesn't make mistakes, but my childhood tragedy left me wondering "why me"quite frankly. As young adults we are oblivious to the fact that certain courses of action can change the trajectory of our entire live. For me, tragedy ultimately changed me for the better, but it didn't feel like it at the time.

Facing an Islamic extremist armed with a grenade launcher, Billy finds himself in a life and death situation. A fellow U.S. Marine lies trapped in a burning Humvee, while a young boy is pinned down under machine gun fire amid the nauseating odor of burning flesh. A Black Hawk helicopter unleashes a Hellfire missile reducing a building filled with warring Jihadist to rubble. These are the images that are frozen in his mind haunting Him. Billy has just returned to Spillerville after spending four-years away while serving as a U.S. Marine in the Iraqi War. The fatigue of combat has taken its toll on him. It is a bitter/sweet moment coming home. Flashbacks ...

This book is about a young man named Robert who chronicles a poetic diary about his struggles through childhood of having a drug addicted mother and a deadbeat father. He is working his way through life learning a lot of rights and wrongs while being a role model to his younger brother. There's one man who cared about him and his well-being, his guidance counselor Mr. Marble who molds him into a better man, is a role model to him and shows him a better way of life. Through the trials and tribulations of life, Robert chronicles his thoughts and experiences on various issues such as family, love, relationships, his neighborhood and growing into the man he wants to be. This book shows that ...

Robert is growing and still going through a lot of experiences in his life. This book deals with a range of deaths as he loses some important people in his life. With death, there’s a sense of feeling lost and not knowing what to do. With no family to turn to and his brother Michael still locked up in prison, he doesn’t have too many places to turn to, to emote all that he is going through. It takes him going to therapy to treat the depression he is dealing with along with having a heavy heart. His therapy sessions allow him to deal with the anguish and pain that he’s going through and it allows him to grow and head in the right direction. Another book of personal growth, daily struggles ...

Robert is going through a growth transition in his life from reflecting on his old neighborhood he lived in to losing his friends and going through therapy to deal with all that goes on in his mind. While dealing with those things, he learns about how hard it is to love when he hasn’t received it his whole life, all while trying to find himself through all of the madness in his life. His younger brother Michael comes home from prison and it’s a new adjustment to having him around again and trying to get Michael acclimated to life in the real world again. While Robert finally figures out what his passion is and what he wants to do with his life, Michael is chronicling his life behind pris ...