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Our Mission & Approach

The Peacemakers Mission:

To inspire unity between community and law enforcement.

The Peacemakers Approach:

To achieve that mission can be a daunting task with mistrust and misunderstanding from every side of the community. Our approach is to gather community and law enforcement together for dialogue on justice, equality, and racism, so understanding may take place, peace may grow, and our communities may prosper.

Our Mission Only Succeeds WIth Your Help!

A nonprofit is as strong as the community that holds it up. Together, we can do more than we can do alone. Let’s bring our abilities and passions together to affect real change.

There are many ways to join us and support our mission. Contact us to find out more about volunteer opportunities, fundraising events, and ways that you can get our message to your friends and family.

Our Team

We are a diverse group of person’s who desire better relationships between communities and law enforcement. We believe through meeting, sharing, and educating, we can bring peace into the world.

Lawrence Zapata

I am 30 years a cop. At the onset of my career I had a simple goal. Be respectful and compassionate to all, be prayerful and intentional. By my mid years I had reassessed my goal and determined “love your neighbor as yourself” better reflected my faith and who I had became as a man and a cop.

When the George Floyd murder occurred it opened my eyes to the great need for our communities to be reconciled to the Lord and to each other. I began engaging in dialogue as a peacemaker, and with the help of Linda Minthorn, our President, we founded The PeaceMakers PNW. A 501c commissioned to bringing “Cops and Community in Unity.” Our vision, to gather community and law enforcement together for education and dialogue on justice, equality, and racism; or more simply, to love our neighbor.

In Revelation 7:9 there’s a powerful scene of “a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands.” This scene is created here on earth and the fullness of its purpose accomplished in heaven before the throne of Christ. I am prayerful, for me and for you, to have a place in this magnificent scene. Having fulfilled our purpose as peacemakers, breaking bread with all the nations, forgiving each other’s transgressions, healing together, sharing joy, for the glory of our King, Jesus.

Lawrence Zapata,

Mexican American, Deputy Sheriff,

and CEO of The Peacemakers PNW.

Linda Zapata

My family is literally composed of many tribes. Do I love one of them more or less based on their race? The answer is a hard no. Do I have to state their ethnicity to say their lives matter? And in doing so, wouldn’t this mean the one’s not stated were less than or omitted?

My dating a law enforcement officer for the past three years has opened my eyes to a whole new level of racism. But more than that, it opened my eyes to a deep gap, a division that can only be brought together by love.

After the George Floyd tragedy and chaos that followed, I realized we need to to something. We have to take personal accountability and treat this at a tangible level. Not expecting the government to impose a new law that will heal the sick human heart. Not expecting a president to reform something that has never worked in the past and has no traction to date.

Our mission is to meet with at risk people, the ones harmed by lies, racism, economic oppression, and those who have been misinformed or even mistreated. Other’s that have been taught fear & hate, and those who believe they must flee if approached by the law. We set a banquet at The Table where all are welcome and free to come speak their hearts. There they can break bread with uniformed officers and share truths, thus allowing one another to meet and understand each other in their place.

We believe through educating and humanizing one another, we can walk forward in peace and change the world we live in. We must treat one another uniquely, and love one another equally.

I want to see a better world for my kids, their kids, and for all generations to come. Won’t you join us!

Linda Zapata

President, Co-Founder, Peacemakers PNW

Our Story

The PeaceMakers PNW are stewards of a God inspired vision for cop and community reconciliation. The broken relationships created from citizen mistrust and police involved violent tragedies gathered us. We began as a talk group and discussed disparity, racism, and opposition to law. We were purposeful to break bread with likeminded persons and persons adamant the American justice system was plagued by white supremacy, corruption, and inequality. From these discussions our business foundation to “love your neighbor as yourself,” and “God created mankind in his own image” was set; and upon this foundation our vision was formed – to gather community and law enforcement together for education and dialogue on justice and equality.

Lawrence Zapata

CEO, Peacemaker and Deputy Sheriff.