Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative
Friends Ending Gun Violence Info Session
Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative: Info Session
March 25, 2025 | 7:00 P.M. EST | Zoom
FEGV Collaborative invites you to learn about our work, what’s happening in Bucks and Chester counties, south Jersey, and New York Yearly Meeting. All are welcome to attend.
The Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative (FEGV) is a newly formed group within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. As Quakers, we are called to live out the testimony of peace. Gun violence challenges the foundation of that testimony, claiming over 40,000 lives annually in the United States. The Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative seeks to engage all those in the Yearly Meeting who share this concern and create ways for meetings and individuals to act.
FEGV has a unique partnership with Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence, the grassroots and interfaith organization devoted to ending gun violence. Heeding God’s Call grew out of a 2009 peace conference held at Arch Street Meeting House in which the historic peace churches came together; an outgrowth of the conference is a commitment to end gun violence by halting the sale and distribution of illegal handguns.
We’d like to share our work with you and invite you and your meeting to join us in a Zoom call on Tuesday, March 25 at 7:00 PM. Learn about our efforts in Bucks County, South Jersey, and Chester County. Hear what’s happening in New York Yearly Meeting. Find out how you and your meeting can get involved. Please circulate the registration link below.
REGISTER to Receive the Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nU0efShrQ5WCrW4Q7wrS-g
Souls Shot Portrait Project Dedication
Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative member Molly Grace Hicks (Old Haverford MM) will be sharing music for the dedication of the Souls Shot Portrait Project exhibition at Beth Am Israel Synagogue.
This project links fine artists with families or friends of victims of gun violence. The artists meet with the victims’ loved ones to learn about the lives they lived. The goal of the Souls Shot Portrait Project is to present diverse works that in some way relay graphically, or through narrative, the essence of the person being portrayed.
The mission is to bring attention to and memorialize the lives lost and tragically altered due to gun violence. Portraits have the unique ability to call out the souls and profoundly affect those who see them.
Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence at Abington Meeting
Abington Friends Meeting will host Brian Miller, Executive Director of Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence. “As Quakers, we are called to live out the testimony of peace. Gun violence challenges the foundations of that testimony, claiming over 40,000 lives annually in the United States.”
Vigil for Victims, Families and Survivors of Gun Violence
Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative of PYM is a sponsor of a community vigil organized by CeaseFirePA. Please join others in our community who are committed to end gun violence.
Memorial to the Lost® Installation at Arch Street Meeting House Commemorates Victims of Gun Violence
The Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative, in partnership with Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence, will host a Memorial to the Lost® installation at Arch Street Meeting House from November 8th to November 14th, 2024. Friends are invited to gather for a dedication event on Friday, November 8th, at 3:00 PM. As well as a silent vigil at 5:30 PM following the Memorial Meeting for Worship.
