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Guns2Gardens: Campus ministry to host firearm donation event

A handmade garden trowel with a wooden handle stuck in the soil at the base of a tree.
Haley Lerner
An example of a reworked firearm by RAWtools South.

The Table is a campus ministry that serves about a hundred University of Georgia students. On March 28th, the Table will accept donated firearms during an event called Guns2Gardens. The ministry will work with blacksmithing organization RawTools South to dismantle donated firearms and turn them into gardening tools.

Haley Lerner is the campus minister at the Table and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She sat down with WUGA’s Emma Auer to discuss how the Guns2Garden event connects to her and her students’ faith. Here’s their conversation.

Emma Auer is an award-winning reporter who joined WUGA as a full-time producer in 2024. She is also a graduate student in UGA's Romance Languages Department, studying French and Spanish. She covers the breadth of Northeast Georgia stories, from Athens City Hall to Winterville farmers' markets. Emma's work has also been heard on Georgia Public Broadcasting.
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