Special Banquet Evening
The Celebration Banquet at this year’s conference will thrill you and inspire you! If you can’t attend the entire conference, you may want to at least make reservations for the Banquet.
Entertainment will be by the International Peace Choir, which consists of children of ages six through seventeen. Each is dressed in cultural clothes that are carefully researched and designed. They have performed for presidents, kings and queens, and Pope John Paul II. Their mission is to promote world peace with their theme song, “Let There Be Peace On Earth and Let It Begin With Me.”
Special guest Barbara Metzler will be speaking at the Banquet. She is the founder of The Passionaries organization and the author of "Passionaries: Turning Compassion into Action". She coined the word “passionaries” while interviewing the 35 people profiled in her book. “I saw them as passionate visionaries,” she said, “and though I did not intend to create a new word, ‘passionaries’ came into my mind and I knew that it described what I saw perfectly.” Her book chronicles the impressive accomplishments of organizations such as USA Harvest, Habitat for Humanity, Newman’s Own, and The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and many more. The perseverance and ingenuity of each of these Founders is revealed in detail.
Barbara Metzler believes that sharing these stories is a way to encourage people to realize that, they too, can turn compassion into action regardless of their resources or obstacles. “Perhaps the most profound thing that I learned while researching and writing this book, is the occurrence of a ‘ripple effect’. One person CAN make a difference, and all of the passionaries in my book have done just that.”
Her organization serves to provide a network of opportunities to the nonprofit, the philanthropist, and the volunteer. Its goal is to educate connect and inspire a call to action. Ms Metzler says, “Together, let’s change the conversation around dinner tables and water coolers to ‘What are you passionate about or involved in that is making a difference?’ Your positive energies can change our world.”
If you are attending the full conference, this wonderful evening will be on Friday night, right in the middle of your conference experience. If you would like to make reservations for the Banquet only, reservations are $30.
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