APJC subcommittee on Peace in the Schools met January 8 at 4:15 at the PeaceJam office. We discussed the list of suggested activities from the Nov. meeting and agreed to take action on three. 

1. Jes has started publicizing a third "What is Peace Jam" event to be held at Regis on February 10 at 7:00 PM. We agreed to provide refreshments and attend in support. Any member who can provide cookies please contact Phyllis.  If you cannot bring them yourself we will arrange to take them to the meeting for you. It would be great to have a good representation from the committee. 

2. Jes will prepare a press release about the need for donations to the scholarship fund to send youth to the spring PeaceJam conference. We will circulate these at the January Commission meeting and encourage members to get this into church publications and our to their service groups and other contact. 

3. We will explore with the Commission the possibility of hosting movie/discussion nights perhaps monthly rotating among area churches. Lorene tells us some members of the Commission have already been doing this and individual homes. Perhaps they can share their list of best movies for public viewing. 

The APJC meeting is January 13th. Meeting place is still the Arvada United Methodist Church at 68th and Carr, and time is 7:00. We encourage the subcommittee members to attend.  

First United Church of Arvada has already scheduled a Cultural Potluck/Class Dinner for March 20 which they will open to others. We will plan to attend and see if this is something we want to replicate at other locations.

We discussed the possibility of getting PeaceJam clubs into local churches or forming our own club for students who can't participate through their high school. We will pursue this further at the next meeting. 

We hope to develop these and other ideas at out next meeting. We hope all of the members will attend at perhaps bring a friend. We need more active participation to have this subcommittee really become a force in the Commission. 

Please let us know if Thursdays at 4:15 are good for you. If not please let us know what days and times would be better.