Presbyterian Peace Fellowship - Part 2! Gun Violence Prevention Month

Gun Violence Prevention News for Congregations June 2023 Gun Violence Prevention Month Part 2 Presbyterians Wear Orange and Participate in a March with other Congegations for Gun Violence Awareness Days on Sunday June 4 Photo: Webster Groves Presbyterian Church, St. Louis. MO How Does Your Guns to Gardens Grow? Safe Surrender Days Report Just In! Thank you to every church that hosted, helped, prayed, gave money, got out the word, baked cookies and ran those chop saws! See Presbyterian News Service HERE. Sample local news reports: Louisville, KY HERE Salt Lake City, UT HERE Photo: On June 11 there were 26 fewer guns in Shepherdstown, WV, thanks to Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church Guns to Gardens Action Circles Start this Week! Thursdays June 22 - July 20 One Hour on Zoom with 2 time options Join with other church members across the nation to learn how to find allies, do publicity and all the steps needed for your own Guns to Gardens Safe Surrender event. Explore how your church can take direct action to prevent gun suicides, family gun violence, unintentional shootings, mass shootings related to gun theft and other gun violence. Space is limited. Sign up today! Registration ends Wednesday June 21 for this cycle. Learn more & register HERE for the daytime Cohort at 11 am ET. Register HERE for the evening Cohort at 7:30 pm ET Photo: Deacon Clarence McDavid of Curé D'Ars Catholic Church in Denver, CO visits with another Guns to Gardens volunteer at the Safe Surrender event hosted by his congregation on June 10. Learn more HERE. Photo: Wear Orange Sunday June 4 at Oakland-Cambridge Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, WI Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Takes Guns to Gardens to Wild Goose Festival July 13-16, Union, NC Join with 5,000 progressive people of faith as the message of Guns to Gardens continues to grow. Our team will provide a blacksmithing demonstration and engage with this spirit-filled annual event to help prevent gun violence. Learn more and find tickets HERE. May 31 - June 30 RAWtools 44K -- 44,000 Minutes for 44,000 Lives The RAWtools network of blacksmiths and chop saws are currently marking 10 years of decommissioning and transforming guns with a 44K Guns to Gardens Blacksmithing Marathon. Each of the 44,000 minutes represents 44,000 Americans who died from gun violence in 2022. Learn more, see the Livestream & support the extraordinary RAWtools 44K HERE. Can We Count on You? Please support the Gun Violence Prevention Ministry of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship with your church, presbytery or personal giving. We can't do this work alone! Gifts are tax-deductible. Give HERE now. Or Mail checks, payable Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, marked "Gun Violence Prevention" to: Presbyterian Peace Fellowship 17 Cricketown Rd. Stony Point, NY 10980 Thank you! Learn more at presbypeacefellowship.org/gun-violence Rev. Deanna Hollas, Gun Violence Prevention Coordinator deanna@presbypeacefellowship.org News! Share new article in Presbyterian Outlook by Rev. Deanna Hollas, From Despair to Hope: Mobilizing Your Church to End Gun Violence HERE.  Presbyterian Peace Fellowship 845-786-6743 | presbypeacefellowship.org Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

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