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For Community Action Day, all available volunteers are asked to come in and help where needed, however some specific shifts are added to volunteerlocal app.
For Community Action Day, all available volunteers are asked to come in and help where needed, however some specific shifts are added to volunteerlocal app.
Healing, Not Harm
Healing, Not Harm
Affirmation: We remember that the disciples ask Jesus when he saw them in faithful ministry and he answered, “As you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me” (Matthew 25:40). In our country 40,000 people are losing their lives each year to gun violence. Each one of these represents to us the crucified Christ, as do their orphans, their grieving parents and families, as do the nearly 100,000 who are injured and the countless others who are traumatized by gun violence through suicides, murders, family violence, and accidents; In faithfulness to the Prince of Peace, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) stands with, grieves with, and calls for change alongside the victims of our uniquely-American epidemic of gun violence.
At the 225th General Assembly (2022) the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) renewed its commitment to end gun violence by approving a 10-year campaign, the Decade to End Gun Violence (2022–2032), to be conducted at all levels of the church.
Trigger: The Ripple Effect of Gun Violence
Morning Activities
Morning Activities
Healing, Not Harm: A Walk To End Gun Violence
Healing, Not Harm: A Walk To End Gun Violence
Activity takes about 2 hrs.
Baird --> Pere Marquette Park --> Around City Hall --> BairdActivity takes about 2 hrs.
Gather at Pere Marquette Park 9:30 AM
Hospitality crew - welcome our guests and hand out prayer cards at the pavilion
Blacksmith - 1 or 2 helpers for crowd control
Speakers - 1 or 2 helpers for crowd control
Start walk at Pere Marquette Park 10:30 AM
25 Guides interspersed - guide people to start the walk, cross streets, etc.
Continue walk around City Hall
Continue walk to Baird Center (Expected back by 11:30 AM)
Welcome
Direct to tables, G2G and PDA.
Afternoon Town Square / Town Hall Event
What is needed
What is needed
Baird: tables for brochures/Info/Videos - Group Leaders to corral a group of people and walk with them. Leave Baird every 1/2 hour to manage crowding at the parks.
Park: Water station, tables, speaker stations, blacksmith station.
Community Day - service and education opportunities, ministry fair, and community gatherings.
Community Day - service and education opportunities, ministry fair, and community gatherings.
PDA leads the effort to present a documentary and has resources available at their booth for participants to review.
Other resource booths are available for participants to peruse.
Afternoon Town Hall
Afternoon Town Hall
A town hall sized space in the Baird North Building is reserved.
Baird staff will set up tables and chairs for the ministry fair and community representatives.
Volunteers jobs include:
Hospitality - assisting participants with finding their way, providing information.
Assisting as needed
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