Sabine Lichtenfels increasingly uses her abilities and her role as a social and community-creating focal point for the education of youths and for the creation of a political network. Together with students and youth she undertakes peace actions, pilgrimages and street retreats, and visits conflict areas, indigenous peoples such as the Todas in India, the peace village San José de Apartadó in Colombia and future-oriented projects such as Auroville, in order to help and to study other ways of life.
In 2005 she led the first GRACE pilgrimage – for weeks by foot through Israel and the Westbank, from the Golan heights, to the Kinnereth, Nazareth, Baqqa al Garbyye, Tulkarm, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Neve Shalom to Jerusalem. 50 people from many countries including Israel and Palestine accompanied her. It was an extreme and deep experience where people from all sides could perceive and overcome their fear and their anger. A film maker produced the film „We refuse to be enemies“ about this adventure. Sabine Lichtenfels wrote the book „Grace - pilgrimage for a future without war“.
Her last pilgrimage from Eilat to Jerusalem through the desert and through the Westbank brought together 170 people – and created a healing atmosphere for participants and places visited: Kibbutzim, military bases, refugee camps, Israeli settlements and Bedouine villages.
The pilgrims walk in the name of "GRACE", which means: solidarity with all life, not judging, but looking for the healing perspective in every situation.
In these years the plan became very concrete to found a Grace Village in the Middle East. Many friends and co-operation partners in the region support the idea: Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi, Sami Awad, the director of the Holylandtrust, Samuel Shaul, the geomantic and nature researcher, and many others. Some of them – Israelis and Palestinians – are studying presently in Tamera. The main carriers of the Grace Village are Sabine Lichtenfels´ daughter Vera Kleinhammes and Benjamin von Mendelssohn. The two of them have been trained and educated in Tamera.
Sabine Lichtenfels: "Grace Village – this means getting to know what it needs for human beings from all cultural backgrounds to live in peace – which each other and with nature. How will they produce energy, how will they produce food, in which houses do they live? We are in contact with technical, ecological and scientific institutes in the country. And we do very concrete research work on that in Tamera where we are developing a Solarvillage as an applicable model. Our main focus however is the aspect of community building: How do people communicate, how do they live in order to achieve peace?"
Sabine´s latest adventure was leading a seminar and a pilgrimage in San José de Apartadó with approximately 400 participants. San José is a peace village which is heavily threatened by the parties of the civil war in Colombia. The inhabitants live peacefully and try to resist to be expelled or killed – in the ten years of their existence 170 of their inhabitants were murdered by guerrilla, soldiers or paramilitaries.
Sabine Lichtenfels: "The inhabitants of San Josecito stayed faithful to their decision to remain a Peace Community despite the unbearable pain. It is the only answer and alternative they see and that gives them the power and the courage to live. Meanwhile, this community has become a carrier of hope for all the suppressed ones in the country. Despite the risk of life more and more people dare to raise their voice. The power of San Josecito encourages other displaced people to raise their voices. Having become an eye-witness, I don’t see any other way than helping these people with all means and with that effectively thinking about models with which this or similar help will be possible also for other suppressed and peoples."
For the actions in the name of Grace, for building international peace training sites ("Global Campus") and for helping places like San José, Sabine founded the GRACE foundation – for the humanisation of money