Have you been dreaming of being part of a team of Jesus-centered peacemakers, following your calling in your own community while building a movement for peace in the church?
If so, Peace Catalyst might be for you!
Peace Catalyst is a network of full-time, part-time, and volunteer team members pursuing peace, justice, healing, and reconciliation across the globe.
We’re catalyzing new endeavors in our own contexts while working toward a shared goal of sparking peace movements in the church and beyond.
HERE ARE A FEW WAYS YOU CAN JOIN US…
Join Our Team
Many of our team members build peace with PCI as their job, dedicating 10 to 40 hours a week to building relationships, collaborating across divides, organizing peace and justice initiatives, and spreading the vision, theology, and skills for peace in the church and beyond.
Our team members are highly innovative, creative, and entrepreneurial. In order to do their work that they are passionate about with a high level of independence and autonomy, staff members crowdsource their salary and project costs with PCI’s coaching and administrative support.
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Peacebuilding organizations are often funded in large part through grants, which can limit the sustainability and impact of their peacebuilding efforts because
funding cycles can have dramatic ups and downs
grants often have short-term goals and limited timelines
applying for grants can be highly competitive and time-consuming
grants can neglect the slow time and energy that go into relationship building and grassroots change
Although crowdfunding can be challenging and intimidating up front, crowdfunded peacebuilders have the capacity to focus on the relationships, contextual priorities, and unlikely collaborations that are needed to work toward a durable peace.
As a crowdfunded Peace Catalyst staff member, you have the flexibility to start building peace right where you are, in your own local context and in a way that addresses the conflicts and opportunities that are unique to your location. You’ll get on-the-job training, learn the Peace Catalyst ethos, and build your resume as you connect with diverse groups and gain hands-on peacebuilding skills.
Volunteer
as a Peace Ambassador
Inspired to join a team of passionate peacebuilders, but not looking to make a career change?
Our Peace Ambassadors come to us from all sorts of backgrounds. Some work other jobs but want a supportive community as they try to build peace in their neighborhood. Some are retired, with hours to devote to peacebuilding without needing a paycheck. Some work with other peace organizations or faith communities but want to be aligned with PCI. However they come to us, our volunteer Peace Ambassadors are invaluable and go through the same hiring process, onboarding, coaching, and community support as the rest of the staff.
When you volunteer with Peace Catalyst, you’re an equal part of the team alongside peacebuilders from across the globe!
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Peace Ambassadors, like all PCI Team Members, are expected to get involved in hands-on peacebuilding in their community or with an issue they feel passionate about. Some Peace Ambassadors already have projects they’re involved in when they join us. If so, great! We want to support them in doing those projects well.
If new Peace Ambassadors are just beginning their peacebuilding journey, or are unsure where to start, we encourage a few great starting places:
Organize Peace Feasts: Since our founding, Peace Catalyst team members have excelled at building relationships across religious and cultural divides, and then partnering across those divides to host meals for cross-cultural storytelling, learning, and connecting. These Peace Feasts have often led to deep friendships, ongoing cross-cultural small groups, and interfaith partnerships and service projects.
Organize a Peace Team: If Peace Ambassadors are feeling drawn to prioritizing service and action, we encourage them to organize a “Peace Team.” Ambassadors invite like-minded neighbors, friends, and fellow church members to form a small group dedicated to partnering across religious, cultural, racial, and class divisions to help their community flourish. This isn’t your typical charity project, though: whether they’re feeding the unhoused, tending a community garden, volunteering at a block club, or getting arrested at a protest, Peace Teams follow the wisdom and leadership of the most marginalized in their community.
Equip the Church: If Peace Ambassadors are more excited by facilitating conversations and inspiring their fellow Christians to learn about peace, they can do that. These Peace Ambassadors are encouraged to focus on leading small groups using PCI curriculum, book clubs, or other materials, with a focus on helping participants transition from thinking about peace to acting for peace. Peace Ambassadors may facilitate these small groups in their own community, or online with other PCI team members. In time, these Peace Ambassadors may help lead other workshops and trainings as well.
New Peace Ambassadors—like all PCI Team Members—spend their first year as novices. The Novitiate year is all about learning and applying, with regular coaching, learning cohorts, and a lot of space to build relationships and get integrated more deeply into one’s peacebuilding context. New Team Members are expected to start slow and build trust, which is at the heart of peacebuilding—both within PCI and without. We believe truly transformative peacebuilding is patient and deep, and we want new Team Members to practice that posture from the beginning.
Peace Ambassadors, as full Team Members, are invited and encouraged to participate in as much of PCI’s community life as possible. With regular regional and global meetings, celebration calls, working groups for shared passions, active chat threads, opportunities to partner with other team members, online events, conferences, fundraisers to inspire others, and an open invitation to visit PCI peers when traveling… there is no shortage of ways to experience the care and collaboration of the PCI Team.
Interested in joining the team?
PCI is all about relationship—we get to know each other, discern how your calling and PCI’s align, and then move forward in trust.
Plus, here are some other ways to be involved and continue getting to know us…
Join the
Christian Peacebuilding Network
The CPN is an ethnically, culturally, geographically, and organizationally diverse community of Christian peacebuilding practitioners and everyday Christians looking to contribute to the wider Christian peacebuilding movement. We host monthly calls to connect Christian peacebuilders, explore various themes at the intersection of Christian faith and peacebuilding, and to build a collaborative movement.
Explore our
Resources + more
We have a collection of free resources to help you start building peace. They’ll also help you get to know us, our language, our approach, and what we’re all about!
We put on new events every month, including workshops, webinars, small groups, and more. See what’s coming up, and join us for an event (or several)!
Get to know our team around the world! If there’s someone near you, reach out and find out more about what’s going on in your region!
JOIN US AS A FINANCIAL PARTNER
Every gift brings diverse neighbors together and helps create safer, more just, and more united communities.