'Peace is Possible' virtual event hosted this week

Tiffin Pax Christi invites the public to participate in a virtual zoom meeting 7 p.m. Thursday with Mel Lehman who worked for 20 years at the National Council of Churches as an editor in international humanitarian issues. During that time he made several visits to the Middle East where he came to realize that the ordinary people he met there were very unlike the images of Middle Easterners he was seeing in the U.S. media. In 2009 he founded a non-profit organization called Common Humanity which works to build understanding, respect and friendship between Americans and the Middle East and Arab world. Common Humanity organizes exhibits of paintings by Middle East artists to help Americans better understand the humanity and rich culture of the people there. In 2018, he took 793 Christmas and New Year's Cards to Syria and brought back an equal number of cards from Syrians personally addressed to the Americans who sent the cards. Mel will show us paintings by Middle East artists from an exhibit organized by Common Humanity. He'll share with us what he has learned from these artists and other people he has met on his travels in the Middle East. Tiffin Area Pax Christi is a chapter of International Pax Christi which is a non-profit, non-governmental peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues in the field of human rights. For information on how to be a participant in the May 7 zoom meeting, call Sister Paulette Schroeder at (567) 230-0220 or email pauletteosf@hotmail.com. Use "Mel Lehman virtual meeting" as subject line.