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Six Mosaic Conference Congregations Join for Witness to End Gun Violence

April 24, 2025 by Cindy Angela

by Mike Ford

Photos by Mike Ford

In spite of some chilly rain, about 100 people from at least six Mosaic Conference congregations and beyond gathered on April 6, 2025 to participate in the second annual Souderton End Gun Violence walk. The Zion Mennonite (Souderton, PA) Peace and Justice Committee planned the event in conjunction with Zwingli UCC and Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence, and those that gathered represented a local faith community of over ten different congregations.

The walk started at Zion, where folks first sang songs and listened to poignant stories shared by speaker Movita Johnson-Harrell, who lost two sons to gun violence. Participants then offered a public witness, walking 1.3 miles along Rt. 113 to Souderton Community Park, carrying signs and t-shirts memorializing Montgomery County residents that have lost their lives to gun violence in the last five years. Once at the park, letters were signed that will be sent to state and federal legislators in support of reasonable gun laws, particularly aimed at halting the illegal straw purchase of guns.

Honoring lives lost to gun violence in Montgomery County.
Participants in Souderton Community Park sign letters to their state and federal legislators in support of reasonable gun laws.

The walk concluded with participants transferring the installation of the Memorial to the Lost t-shirts from Zion to Zwingli UCC, providing a continued public memorial and witness to ending gun violence. Zion and Zwingli will continue to cooperate in the future to annually host a t-shirt memorial and End Gun Violence Walk (the next walk will be on March 22, 2026), and welcome additional Souderton/Telford area congregations to join this faith community effort, and also the Memorial t-shirt display.


Mike Ford

Mike Ford loves Jesus and people, and has combined those two loves for the last 40 years through work on a college campus, Program Director at two Christian camps, hospital chaplaincy, and serving as a Youth Pastor and Preaching Pastor at several Mennonite congregations. Mike oversees Zion’s Jr/Sr High youth ministry and helps with its outreach activities.

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: gun violence, Zion Mennonite Church

Preventing Gun Violence

February 21, 2013 by Emily Ralph Servant

Gun Violence Pastors BreakfastDrick Boyd, professor at Eastern University, and Fred Kauffman from Mennonite Central Committee (both from West Philadelphia congregation) shared stories of gun violence and redemption and encouraged leaders to engage their congregations around the topic of gun violence and gun control.  There are deeper issues in our culture, Boyd said, and getting rid of guns won’t remove those deeper issues, but “at least we’ll live long enough to address them.”

Kauffman and Boyd are available to come speak at your congregation on the topic of preventing gun violence; they also recommend the book America and Its Guns.

Intercessory Prayer about Gun Violence

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[podcast]http://www.mosaicmennonites.org/media-uploads/mp3/Gun-Violence.mp3[/podcast]

Filed Under: Multimedia Tagged With: gun violence, intercultural, J. Fred Kauffman, Mennonite Central Committee, missional, Pastor's Breakfast, Peace

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