For much of the duration of the war against Iraq, Tri-City Action for Peace maintained a continuous vigil (24 hours for the first week and 6 am to midnight afterwards) at the Saginaw courthouse on the corner of Court & Michigan. We got heckled, we got threatened, but the experience built our peace community, raised consciousness in Saginaw, and gave passers-by who believed in peace some hope. Several of our most fervent TCAP members now came to us as a result of this vigil. We must be grateful to Renaye, Margaret, and Rosalie of the Jeannine Coallier Catholic Worker for initiating the idea and doing much of the work to maintain it. In many ways, TCAP found itself through this powerful act of community building and public witness.