LONGLANDS recreation ground in Sidcup was the venue for an outdoor event for peace organised by a local church.
Members of the the Standing for Peace group at Christ Church in Main Road, Sidcup, invited people to join them at the Longlands Road venue for a story, prayer-poems and a blessing.
The event ended with the symbolic release of a dove “as an expression of hopes for prayers and peace in the locality”.
Among those who supported the event were members of the Longlands Safer Neighbourhoods policing team.
Afterwards, both adults and children planted sunflowers in pots to take home, to represent the need and intention to “plant seeds of peace” in their daily lives.
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