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Presbyterian Peace Fellowship-inspired Guns to Gardens events

James Atwood Institute for Congregational Courage set for Ghost Ranch Aug. 22–25

Posted June 25th, 2024

With every event of gun violence, does the Spirit tug at you to do something? Yet what? And how? And do I have the courage and skill to do it? Or… I’ve been working on this — how do I become more effective?

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship asks: How does your Guns to Gardens grow?

Posted July 12th, 2023

On a June Saturday in Concord, New Hampshire, a young couple with a baby in a car seat drove up to the Wesley United Methodist Church to safely surrender a handgun. Why? “New baby!”

Congregations, communities host Presbyterian Peace Fellowship-inspired Guns to Gardens events

Posted January 24th, 2023

Winter is no match for Americans who are weary of gun violence and who are determined to do something about it. From Dec. 3–10, from a frigid church parking lot in Cambridge, Wisconsin to a rainy day in Decatur, Georgia, church members and others fired up their chop saws to join the Guns to Gardens movement. Their goal? Transforming unwanted guns into garden tools.