2025 Small Church Summit

“...Rachel (is) weeping for her children... because they are no more...”<br /> Jeremiah 31: 15<br /> As parents, grandparents and other adults, we grieve that gun violence is the top cause of death for U.S. children and teens.</p> <p>The key causes of gun violence for children and teens are: access to unsecured guns, gun marketing to children, poverty, and a lack of healthy role models and positive alternatives. This violence includes unintentional and intentional shootings, school and mass shootings, and an alarming increase in child/teen gun suicide.</p> <p>The Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly voted unanimously to call on every Presbyterian congregation to “take some specific action of love and responsibility for children” to prevent gun violence. </p> <p>Other denominations are taking similar steps to alert adults to the epidemic of child and teen gun death, injury and trauma.

Peaks small

churches…

Join us for a day of learning,

sharing and fellowship at Amherst

Presbyterian Church. We’ll start the

morning with worship and a

keynote, have two sessions of

workshops, share a meal and share

with each other. 

September 27, 2025.  9am-3pm

Amherst Presbyterian Church

Register