Messages of peace in are on the minds of Seventh-day Adventists in Baghdad. A children’s choir called “Peace Song” is being formed by the church, according to Homer Trecartin, secretary-treasurer of the church’s Middle East region with headquarters in Cyprus.

“They have been collecting poems on peace written by Iraqis, and are in the process of turning them into songs that will be sung by a group of children from many ethnic and religious groups in the country,” he reports.

Trecartin says they have the people needed to get this initiative going, “but without jobs for many months now, there is not enough money to purchase uniforms, equipment, produce a CD, and pay for travel.

“Their first goal is to help present a message of peace to the people of Iraq,” he adds. He believes that the initiative will have an impact on many areas of the world “with a message that comes out of the terrors they have been through.”