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 Patrick O’Neill if you have any questions: 984-810-2273 (text only) or David Biesack 919-880-9301 (m).

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