Faith Beacons
Beacons of P.E.A.C.E.
The Charge to a Faith Beacon
Faith Beacons are faith-community leaders who give spiritual and moral witness to Give 100 — the Sovereign Shield honouring Queen Elizabeth II’s centenary. Across the countdown and throughout the Give 100 year, they are invited to embody P.E.A.C.E. — offering public expression to prayer, witness, advocacy, convening, and enlistment as a living testimony of faith in service of duty and peace.
On Faith and Witness
Faith stood beside duty and service among the great anchors of Queen Elizabeth II’s life. A public devotion sustained over seventy years is difficult to understand apart from the faith she so often acknowledged. As Defender of the Faith, she gave that faith public expression through her Christmas messages, Royal Maundy observances, and lifelong witness — a faith that shaped her vocation and her service to the last. Yet it did not narrow her regard. As Head of the Commonwealth, she recognised the dignity and contribution of other traditions, and became for many beyond her own a figure of steadiness, reverence, and peace. For that reason, Give 100 gives faith communities a defined place in its architecture: not to make the observance sectarian, but to turn faith toward service, prevention, peace, and the common good — as the Queen herself did, across a century of life.
The Charge
P.E.A.C.E. is the charge given to a Faith Beacon — five expressions of witness through which a faith-community leader gives spiritual and moral form to the Give 100 observance. The faith expression of P.E.A.C.E. follows the same discipline as the wider charge: to Propagate, Enkindle, Advocate, Convene, and Enlist. Prayer is the faith community’s mode of Propagation — the deepest way of orienting the heart toward the cause. Each Faith Beacon is invited to discern, in keeping with their tradition and community, what they are able to offer.
Pray
A Faith Beacon is invited to pray — giving thanks for the life of Queen Elizabeth II, interceding for those whose lives preventable disease still claims, and seeking blessing upon the Give 100 observance and the establishment of Preemptology as a permanent discipline of prevention. Prayer is the faith community’s deepest form of Propagation: it orients the work toward something beyond the merely civic, and aligns spiritual witness with the common good.
Enkindle
A Faith Beacon is invited to enkindle the observance — lighting the Commonweal Candle within their faith community at the formal opening of Give 100 on 21 September 2026, the International Day of Peace. The candle may be renewed at appropriate moments throughout the Give 100 year, including the culmination on 21 September 2027. This act of enkindling is a flame held up in honour of the Queen’s centenary and in witness to peace.
Advocate
A Faith Beacon is invited to advocate — lending their voice and standing to Preemptology and the Institute of Preemptology (IoP) through speech and writing during the countdown and throughout the Give 100 year. Advocacy is a form of public witness: it brings the moral authority of faith to bear on the case for prevention, peace, and the common good.
Convene
A Faith Beacon is invited to convene or host a Semidon after Give 100 formally opens on 21 September 2026 — gathering members of their faith community for prayer, reflection, advocacy, solidarity, and substantive support for the Institute of Preemptology. A Semidon is a cause-seeding gathering: it may seed gifts, pledges, volunteers, advocacy, or public commitment. During the countdown before 21 September, Faith Beacons may prepare, brief their communities, and identify participants in readiness for that first gathering.
Enlist
A Faith Beacon is invited to enlist — helping to identify and nominate one male, one female, and one youth from their community as LAMP candidates or LAMP Companions within their city’s Give 100 civic architecture. The Sovereign Shield culminates on 21 September 2027 with the final Semidon in Toronto for 100 LAMPs. To enlist is to extend the Faith Beacon’s witness outward, drawing others into the wider fellowship of Give 100.
By these five expressions — to Pray, Enkindle, Advocate, Convene, and Enlist — Faith Beacons give spiritual and moral form to P.E.A.C.E. across the Commonwealth, and through it, to the world.
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Faith Beacons are one voice within a wider fellowship of service, duty, and peace.