Working in the Peace Booth is your opportunity to influence fairgoers about peacemaking & justice issues. The following are some guidelines and suggestions that we feel will make this opportunity even more fun, effective and beneficial.

• Have FUN! Enjoy yourself! In stressful situations, relax and listen!
• Stand so you can meet people! Eye level contact is best for all.
• Arrive at at the booth 15 minutes early.
• Remember that The RED Book has a place for your suggestions and needs, plus a page where you or others may sign your name and address in order to get our mail about next year’s fair.
• At most two people should be at the Peace Booth each shift. This reduces overcrowding in our small space. 
• Don’t take breaks during your shift. Please don’t eat during your shift.
• One teenager and an adult on a shift works very well. Teens help with attracting the children.
• Stay in the Peace Booth until your replacement arrives. Call your Coordinator if you have a problem.
• The Peace Booth committee pays for your ticket to the fair on the day you choose to work. Please return any unused tickets. Put them in a pocket in the back of the Red Book.
• And, … at the State Fair staffers should find themselves very busy with the following:
  • inviting children in to work on the children’s activity.
  • providing fairgoers with an opportunity to sign various petitions.
  • pointing out the information contained in each petition’s backup material.
  • using pencils, pens, or gift bags to engage children and adults. Don’t just hand them out.
  • giving people who ask for information about the Peace Booth a bookmark. Don’t just give them to everyone.
  • asking people if they know what their faith teaches about “peace and justice” and giving them a statement written by their faith community if they wish.
  • inviting fairgoers to review and take free copies of other materials.
  • creating an inviting booth by picking up, and doing general housekeeping.
  • listening to anyone who wants to talk about peace and justice, how we can make this a better world or many other subjects.
  • learning that listening is a key peacemaking skill. Practice.
  • meeting new volunteers from other organizations interested in a peaceful and just world and hearing new ideas on how to bring this about.
  • If anyone requests a peace statement from their church and we don’t have it, give them a bookmark and give them  a copy of the Faith Statements guidelines from the Red Book. Add their name and address on the mailing list sheet legibly.

You may call David Biesack 919-880-9301 or Robert Parrish 919-616-1606 if you have any questions.

Thanks so much for your continued help and support for peace and justice. The Peace Booth Steering Committee.