Skip to content

Donate now

Enter your ZIP code

Set your location

Tell us where you are so we can show you news from your area.
Visit MCC Canada.
U.S. Go to Canada site
Mennonite Central Committee

Relief, development and peace in the name of Christ

Search form

Learn more Get involved Centennial Contact us Donate
Get involved Current openings What we do
Learn more Centennial Contact us Donate
Menu

Mennonite Central Committee

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a worldwide ministry of Anabaptist churches, shares God's love and compassion for all in the name of Christ by responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice. ​

About MCC​

  • Vision and mission
  • Leadership and board
  • Annual reports
  • Funding/tax exemption
  • Historical records

COVID-19 response

  • COVID-19 stories
  • Resources for a time of uncertainty
  • COVID-19 regional updates
  • How you can help

Publications and resources

  • A Common Place magazine
  • In Touch newsletter
  • Intersections quarterly
  • Education resources

Stories

Virtual visits

Podcast

What we do

  • Relief
  • Food
  • Water
  • Health
  • Education
  • Migration
  • Peace
  • U.S. programs
  • Advocacy

Where we work

Donate to MCC

Give a gift that changes lives, supporting MCC’s work around the world. Donate now.

Events

  • Relief sales
  • Canning

Make kits or comforters

Advocate

  • Washington Office
  • UN Office

Fundraise

  • Donate now
  • Legacy Giving
  • My Coins Count/Penny Power
  • Giving Registries

Serve

  • Work with us
  • Volunteer locally
  • Young adult programs

Alumni

Thrift Shops

Looking for more information?
Get in touch with a representative from your region here.

Happy Birthday, MCC! 

It's been 100 years since we first started responding to basic human needs in southern Russia (present-day Ukraine). Now, we continue to work for relief, development and peace all over the world. 

Engage

  • 100 Stories
  • Alumni reunions

Give Back

  • New Hope
  • Legacy giving

Advocate

  • Advocacy campaign

To mark 100 years of sharing God’s love and compassion, and your generosity and partnership through the decades, we invite you to explore stories from MCC’s decades of work around the world

Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Subscribe on Youtube

Looking for your local office? Tell us where you are so we can show you locations and news around you.

MCC U.S.
MCC U.S.
21 South 12th Street
PO Box 500
Akron, PA 17501-0500
United States
Office: (717) 859-1151
Toll Free: (888) 563-4676
mailbox@mcc.org

Contact MCC

  • General contacts
  • Media contacts
  • Contact Human Resources
  • Send us your questions
  • Welcoming Place

Find a Thrift Shop

Manage your subscriptions

  • A Common Place magazine
  • In Touch newsletter

Where needed most

A gift to where needed most supports the breadth of MCC’s work – meeting urgent needs and building stronger, healthier communities. Give today.

Donate

  • Legacy giving
  • Giving registries
  • My Coins Count
  • Current disaster responses
  • Support a service worker
  • Make kits and comforters
  • More giving projects

More information

  • FAQs
  • Annual reports
  • Privacy policy
  • Security information

You are here

  1. Home
  2. Stories
  3. Five ways to address violence related to guns
United States

Five ways to address violence related to guns

May 25, 2022

By Jes Buller and Krista Dutt

MCC grieves the recent and continuation of mass shootings in the U.S. Please join us in praying for the families and communities affected. We also invite you to engage with these resources as we continue to advocate for nonviolence and peace in the U.S. and worldwide.

 

1. Address policy

Call your members of Congress (Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 or visit our U.S. advocacy webpage and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page where it says “find officials”). Share your personal story and ask for specific policy change – for example, universal background checks or a ban on assault weapons. Learn more on our website about how to advocate and the Biblical basis of gun violence advocacy and take steps toward deeper engagement in political advocacy.

 

2. Let’s talk about it

"A loaded conversation: an invitation to talk about guns," is a conversation guide that will help people talk together and listen to each other as they discuss different perspectives of violence related to guns.

 

3. Think theologically

MCC U.S. and RAWtools have partnered on a Sunday School curriculum, FEAR NOT, that will help congregations live nonviolence during times of active violence.

 

4. Preach it

Included in the guide, "A loaded conversation: an invitation to talk about guns," are theological resources that can be useful for church leaders of all theological perspectives as they prepare to preach about violence related to guns. Worship resources are also included.

 

5. Think big, start small

Support local initiatives that reduce violence in your area both with policy change and practical support. Reach out to RAWtools to learn more about their gun to garden tool program, the disarming network and non-violence workshops.  You may also contact Jes Stoltzfus Buller, MCC U.S.’s peace education coordinator by email, jessicabuller@mcc.org, or by phone, 574-534-4133.

 

Top photo caption: Young Adult Peacebuilders Training participants visit RAWtools, an MCC partner that forges guns into garden tools, to learn about transforming violence. In the workshop, participants observe the forge and take their hand at pounding on the hot metal to create a tool of peace from a tool of violence. MCC photo/Christy Kauffman

Share this story
Share
Tweet
Plus 1

Donate today

Every gift makes a difference

Please enter your donation amount

E-newsletter signup

Stories and photos from MCC delivered to your inbox once a month

Connect with MCC

Like us on Facebook
View on Instagram
Follow us on Twitter
Subscribe on Youtube
  • Learn more
    • About MCC
    • Where we work
    • What we do
      • Relief
      • Food
      • Water
      • Health
      • Education
      • Migration
      • Peace
      • Restorative justice
    • Privacy
  • Get involved
    • Employment
    • Events
    • Kits
    • Advocate
    • Volunteer
  • Donate
    • Donate now
    • Donation FAQs
    • Giving registries
    • Legacy giving
Mennonite Central Committee

   

© 2022 Mennonite Central Committee
Tax Identification Number: 23-6002702