Gun Violence Prevention Oct. News

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Gun Violence Prevention News for Congregations Oct. 2024 Welcome to new readers! Election 2024 The Peace Presbyterian Peace Fellowship does not support or oppose candidates. But we encourage you to get involved in the election to prevent gun violence. See New Action Below! Check HERE to learn if you are registered to vote for Nov. 5. Check HERE to learn about the Trump/Vance Campaign. Check HERE to learn about the Harris/Walz Campaign. Check HERE to learn about Gun Sense candidates for every state. New Non-Partisan Election Action: Faithfully Calling for Gun Safety Faith-based volunteers are making phone calls from their homes every Monday until the election. Using a laptop and a phone, these calls are made by people of faith to people of faith. They're not made on behalf of any candidate or campaign committee. Instead, we're calling voters in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and asking them to consider the issue of gun violence prevention as they vote up and down the ballot. See dates, leaders and registration link below. Mon. Oct. 7 at 7-9 pm EDT, 6-8 pm CDT, etc Join other citizens in making calls with Rev. Sharon Risher. Her mother and cousins were shot and killed in the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, SC. Rev. Risher is an ordained pastor, gun violence prevention advocate and author of For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre. Rev. Risher will speak with volunteers during the event. Oct 7. Mon. Oct. 14 at 7-9 pm EDT, 6-8 pm CDT, etc Join in hearing from and making calls with Sharmaine Brown. Her son, Jared Brown, was shot and killed by a stray bullet two weeks before his 24th birthday. Sharmaine launched Jared’s Heart of Success in the aftermath, which aims to teach youth how to avoid violence. She is also a spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Violence.  Sign Up for Monday Eve Calls HERE Sign Up for Day or Weekend Calls HERE Please hold in prayer a large and exciting Guns to Gardens day for Kansas City, MO on Oct. 12. Learn about it HERE. Plan now for National Guns to Gardens Days Dec. 2-15 to remember the Sandy Hook school shooting and all victims of gun violence. If you have a safe surrender event planned for any date, please let us know HERE. NEWS Hurricane News: RAWtools South in the Asheville, NC area was hit hard by flooding from Hurricane Helene. Guns to Gardens leaders Scotty Utz and Stan Wilson and their families are OK. Scotty reports that they have a long road to recovery. Contribute to RAWtools South HERE. Many congregations are working together to help the states impacted. Contribute for long-term recovery work by Presbyterian Disaster Assistance HERE. Guns and the Border Oct. 17 at 3 pm PT/6 pm ET Our friends at BorderLinks in Tucson, AZ invite you to a Zoom event with anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte, whose latest book is Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border.  Jusionyte’s work not only demands that we consider the devastating transnational implications of American gun laws, but also flips the script on typical popular and media narratives about the too-porous Mexico-US border, focusing on how the north-to-south movement of arms imperils communities on both sides. The conversation will be held in English, with Spanish interpretation. BorderLinks Pláticas Series - Conversations with Activists, Artists & Authors Register HERE www.borderlinks.org/events Meeting ID: 868 8590 2119 Passcode: 897208 The Presbyterian Decade to End Gun Violence offers grants for action projects. Congratulations to those who have received grants! Be very specific about your project in your application. Apply HERE. T-Shirts Guns to Gardens T-shirts and sweatshirts with the Guns to Gardens logo on the front and Isaiah 2:4 on the back. Order for your church volunteers for gun violence prevention events or as a gift. Order HERE Support PPF's Gun Violence Prevention Ministry We need support from churches, individuals and presbyteries to do this work. Gifts of all amounts are needed. Gifts are tax-deductible.  Give HERE or Mail checks to: "Presbyterian Peace Fellowship" att: Gun Violence Prevention 17 Cricketown Rd. Stony Point, NY 10980 Thank you. GIVE HERE! presbypeacefellowship.org/gun-violence-prevention  Rev. Margery Rossi, Coordinator margery@presbypeacefellowship.org Rev. Jan Orr-Harter, Editor gvp@presbypeacefellowship.org Presbyterian Peace Fellowship 845-786-6743 | presbypeacefellowship.org Instagram | Facebook | Twitter