Peace Camp

Our annual summer conference, affectionately known as “peace camp,” is an annual gathering for peacemakers around the world who seek to promote peace rooted in justice. At peace camp we connect, embrace each other, and engage in fellowship.

Peace Camp offers:

  • Excellent and challenging programs on a variety of ways to practice peacemaking in your own communities

  • Appropriate peacemaking programming for children and adults of all ages

  • A network of peacemakers from all over the world

  • A vibrant, active, and passionate group

  • Connection to our progressive Baptist community

“Peace Camp is a transformational experience. It is a week where we connect deeply with the Spirit through worship, arts, music, and peacemaking.”
— Jason Smith
“This is my ‘booster shot’ to keep me going the rest of the year. Also, I know BPFNA only gets caliber speakers and resource leaders.”
— a 2015 Summer Conference attendee
Dates Location Theme
June 30–July 5, 1986 Green Lake, Wisconsin Announcing the Reign of God
July 6–11, 1987 Asheville, North Carolina Be of Good Cheer
July 4–9, 1988 Atlanta, Georgia Love Your Enemies
July 10–15, 1989 Keuka Park, New York Prisoners of Hope
July 2–7, 1990 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Justice and Peace Will Embrace
July 1–6, 1991 McMinnville, Oregon Be Not Afraid
June 29–July 4, 1992 Roanoke, Virginia The Earth Is the Lord’s
July 26–31, 1993 Birmingham, Alabama Walk Together Children
July 4–9, 1994 Granville, Ohio We’ve Come This Far by Faith
July 10–15, 1995 Redwood City, California Fools in the Eyes of the World
July 8–13, 1996 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada And a Child Shall Lead
July 21–26, 1997 Harrisonburg, Virginia Disarming the Heart
July 27–August 1, 1998 Richmond, Indiana Proclaim Jubilee
July 19–24, 1999 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Building a Culture of Peace
July 10–15, 2000 Winston-Salem, North Carolina On Earth As It Is in Heaven
July 9–14, 2001 Oberlin, Ohio For Such a Time as This
July 22–27, 2002 Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada To Sing Among the Peoples
July 14–19, 2003 Keuka Park, New York With Such a Cloud of Witnesses
July 19–24, 2004 Towson, Maryland The Stones Will Cry Out
August 1–6, 2005 McMinnville, Oregon For the Healing of the Nations
July 10–15, 2006 Atlanta, Georgia Becoming the Beloved Community
July 23–28, 2007 Berea, Kentucky As the Powers Fall
July 14–19, 2008 Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada The Way That Leads to Peace
July 20–25. 2009 Ogden, Utah When There Is Justice, Then Peace Will Come!
July 4–9, 2011 Harrisonburg, Virginia So You Must Forgive
July 31–August 3, 2012 Northfield, Minnesota The Dances of Universal Peace
2014 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada One Creation
July 6–11, 2015 Harrisonburg, Virginia No Longer Strangers: Crossing Borders for Peacemaking
June 27–July 2, 2016 Cheyney, Pennsylvania When Did We See You in Prison?: Breaking Social and Structural Injustice
July 17–22, 2017 Misión Mazahua, Mexico When Did We See You Naked?: Clothing Each Other with Hope
July 2–7, 2018 Keuka Park, New York Decentering Power & Privilege: Becoming a Peculiar People
July 15–20, 2019 Cali, Colombia Peace in Our Land: Toward a World without Violence
August 29, 2020 Virtual Beyond Barriers, People Move
July 20–August 28, 2021 Virtual Beyond Barriers: Soaring in the Spirit
August 19–27, 2022 Virtual A Time to Heal
June 26–30, 2023 San Juan, Puerto Rico Moving Mountains

Past Peace Camps