Peace Rocks Project

Peace Rocks is an Outreach Project and Service Team that started at Unity of Bandon and functions under its umbrella. Participation is open to anyone anywhere in the world who wishes to promote peace. We believe that every person on the planet has the power to change the world. We encourage people to paint words, images, and messages of peace, hope, love, and joy on ordinary rocks and distribute them all over the world. We encourage people to focus their attention on the idea of peace and to share that message with others. The idea of peace rocks originated with Jane Clark (October 10, 1944 - December 15, 2007). As part of the celebration of the Season for Peace & Nonviolence, a Peace Concert was planned at Unity of Bandon in April 2006. It featured the newly formed community Peace Choir as well as a number of other local musicians. As part of that celebration, Jane decided to paint the word "peace" on some rocks and pass them out to all who attended the concert. Little could she have known....she started an international movement! In 2010, the folks at Unity of Bandon decided to paint more peace rocks and distribute them around the community. Since then 1000's of rocks have been painted with messages of peace and they are found all over the world. These treasures are “Peace Rocks” and folks at Unity of Bandon located in the little community of Bandon-by-the-Sea (population 3000) along the southern Oregon coast have been painting them by the 100’s. Using non-toxic paints, images, words, and messages of peace are painted on rocks gathered from the local beaches and rivers.