Presbyterian Mission Agency guns to gardens Archives

Guns to Gardens event coming to General Assembly on Sunday in Salt Lake City

Posted June 25th, 2024

As the nation reels from mass shootings, local Presbyterians have joined with other faith communities to mark Gun Violence Prevention Month by “Wear Orange” events and Guns to Gardens safe surrender days, most held in church parking lots. The June gun violence prevention activities will culminate in Salt Lake City on Sunday with a Guns to Gardens demonstration as the PC(U.S.A.) gathers for its 226th General Assembly.

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship launches new Gun Violence Prevention Congregational Toolkit

Posted March 6th, 2024

The Gun Violence Prevention Working Group of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship (PPF) has been hard at work. The team of 15 Working Group members has completely re-tooled its primary resource, the Gun Violence Prevention Congregational Toolkit.

Panelists encourage churches to get involved in gun violence prevention

Posted September 27th, 2023

Near the end of a recent Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) webinar, Tracie Campbell made an impassioned plea for people of faith to “do something” to curtail gun violence in this country.

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

Posted June 13th, 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 December 13th, 2022

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.

Presbyterian churches in Louisville, Kentucky take the plowshares approach toward halting gun violence

Posted December 5th, 2022

It took a village on Sunday for the Presbytery of Mid-Kentucky to pull off its Guns to Gardens event, including the village blacksmith.

PC(USA), other congregations join in National Guns to Gardens Day

Posted June 13th, 2022

While thousands of Americans were marching for gun safety in 450 locations and 20 U.S. senators were working on a compromise gun reform bill, a group of congregations across the nation turned on their chop saws.