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Guns to Gardens

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New Ministry: Oakland Guns to Gardens 

​Event: Gun Buyback for Garden Tools & Gift Cards

​Date: June 11, 2022, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

​Location: Drive-through drop off at Thy Word MInistry, 8915 International Blvd, Oakland.

​​How can you help
- Donate to help underwrite the costs of the event. Click GIVE and scroll down to choose "Give to Guns to Gardens."

- Volunteer to help at the June 11 event, contact Paula Hawthorn paula.hawthorn@gmail.com
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- Spread the word: Encourage donations, volunteers, and gun drop off at At Thy Word MInistry on June 11.
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Oakland's first Guns to Garden Tools event is happening on June 11, 2022!

This is exciting because it is the first time an event like this has happened in Oakland. We are asking for donations to help make this a success. 

Across the country guns are being forged into garden tools as in  Isaiah 2:4 They shall beat their swords into plowshares.  
​This movement is coming to Oakland, for the first time, in June.
 
RAWtools is the group who began this movement to change the dialog around guns. With the training of the RAWtools leaders, local Oakland blacksmith John Rogers and assistants will take guns that the Oakland Police Department has determined should be destroyed and will forge them into garden tools. Then on June 11, with the assistance of OPD, at the church At Thy Word in East Oakland, there will be an innovative gun buyback: The first 50 of the people turning in their guns at this event will receive one of these garden tools. In addition, people turning in their guns will receive gift cards. The guns collected at the event will also be forged into garden tools.

The current sponsors for this event are:
Faith in Action East Bay
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
The Violence Prevention Coalition
At Thy Word Ministries Church of God in Christ
Make Oakland Better Now!
Brady United
The Oakland Police Department.

The money we collect will go toward the cost of forging the guns into tools, and toward paying for the gift cards. Donation goal: $20,000.
 
To donate, click GIVE and scroll down to 
"Give to Guns to Gardens." You may also mail a check to
​St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610. Please note "For the Guns to Gardens event" in the memo line.

at St. Paul's, All Are welcome.

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