KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Rows of sunflowers were sprouting out of a raised garden smack dab in the middle of a parking lot at Central Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, making their final show. Reverend Jenny Wells stood holding a garden trowel with special meaning. It was made from an unwanted firearm.
“We are turning something that is destructive into something that can be productive and feed people,” Wells said.
A tool of violence transformed into a tool of sustenance is the mission of a national movement called Guns to Gardens. It’s inspired by a biblical passage in Isaiah 2:4 – “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.”
Guns to Gardens began after the Sandy Hook school shooting. Wells and her parishioners organized the first such event in Kansas City last year as a way to process the mass shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl Rally…