Your day goes better when you start it right. — Ken Haystead, Founder
These favorite words of our founder simply express the philosophy of the week-day radio program Peace for Today - 15 minutes of bright, encouraging words guaranteed to get your day off to a good start.
Kenneth Haystead was an articulate man, warm and perceptive, truly in touch with the times and able to give keen insights in coping with everyday problems, as well as psychological and spiritual concerns. He was a successful church leader for 40 years, but at age 59 made a dramatic life change, returned to school and earned a Master's Degree in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling and was about to finish his doctoral program for clinical psychology when he succumbed to cancer. Kenneth Haystead Mr. Haystead often said that he "grew up right in front of his listeners" as he shared life involvements, mid-life crisis, a late-life career change, and ultimately cancer. He was an inspirational role model in many ways and his hundreds of messages on tape live on, although he was taken from us in 1987.
Born in England in 1916, Kenneth Mark Haystead came to Sacramento, Calif., at age three and began his public ministry in his teens. He began Peace for Today daily broadcasts in Portland in 1964 as a hobby and later branched out to many large cities with daily programs. It was often said of him that he was "a man ahead of his time," and his forward-looking and direct approach to everyday living is just as applicable and practical today as in the past. It was in 1974 that Peace for Today was incorporated and received government approval as a qualified nonprofit organization. In April 1997, Peace for Today enlarged its outreach to include the World Wide Web. Long a local radio program, it now reaches people all over the world.
Peace for Today gets close to its listeners as individuals, encourages them, and offers a more-fulfilling way to live.
Peace for Today gives something that is spiritually positive, personally practical and immediately helpful to each person. For more than 40 years, through tax-deductible donations from listeners, Peace for Today has shared insights on living, built around the premise that life is the process of growing and becoming a fully-alive human being ... enjoying the experience in the here and now. It reinforces the belief that life is meant to be abundant and joyful.
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Our Mission: Peace for Today, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire personal growth through our web/radio broadcasts, audio messages, subscriber media, books, and other publications that provide tools to a person's self-knowledge, inspiration, encouragement, and intellectual development.
Our Vision: Creating a world where we all experience a more fulfilling way to live.
Our Values:
Quality - Our focus is on the personal growth of each person we reach and we will strive for excellence through evaluation and continuous improvement.
Caring - We are committed to act with compassion, love, and optimism.
Integrity - We are committed to act in an ethical, honest, and gracious manner.
Respect - We are committed to treating all people with consideration and dignity cherishing diversity of faiths and beliefs and orientation.
Responsiveness - We are committed to strive to be accessible, flexible, transparent, accurate, and reliable while demonstrating a sense of urgency in our resolve and decision-making.
Accountability - We are committed to measuring, achieving and reporting results, while using donor dollars wisely.
Teamwork - We are committed to effective partnerships between volunteers and staff, and we seek opportunities to form alliances with others.
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Each person has the capacity to succeed in life;
Each person is a unique creation, endowed with all that is necessary to become a fully alive human being here and now;
Self-actualization is the birthright of every individual;
Each person, in spite of life's challenges can ...
...learn new principles that allow the freedom to become whatever you were meant to be
...experience life in a more rewarding fashion by expressing health, happiness, and peace of mind;
and that these principles, when practiced, will give you a "New Beginning."
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