St. Peter's Episcopal Church To Hold Gun Violence Awareness Event

Press release from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church:

Oct. 28, 2022

On Monday, November 14, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cheshire will hold an all-day event to raise awareness of gun violence in Connecticut and honor the lives of those lost in the past year to guns in the state.

The all-day event will begin with the installation of “Memorial for the Lost,” an itinerant exhibition sponsored by the Episcopal Church in Connecticut (ECCT). The memorial consists of white T-shirts displayed like tombstones, each shirt representing a person killed by gun violence in 2022 and each including the victim’s name, age and date of death. The installation, which was created over the summer at an Episcopal retreat at Camp Washington, in Lakeside, Conn., will allow people to honor the memories of each of these victims and “Say Their Names”. The memorial will remain on site at St. Peter’s until Nov. 28.

At 4:30 on Nov. 14, Sandra Sayner, Rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal, will lead a Service of Remembrance on the church’s front lawn beside the “Memorial for the Lost.”.

This Gun Violence Awareness event is part of a townwide effort to bring attention to the toll that gun violence exacts on our families and communities. That effort will culminate with a Gun Buy Back event at the Cheshire Police Department on Nov. 19, from 9 a.m. to noon.

For more information on all of these events, visit https://stpeterscheshire.org/

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 59 Main Street, Cheshire, CT 06410, 203-272-4041.

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