Today on Athens News Matters, the organization that helps families navigate the foster system. Then, gardening with dismantled and repurposed guns.
Moms Adopting Moms founder to speak at TedxUGA
TedxUGA is an annual event dedicated to the exchange of ideas in the University of Georgia and Athens communities. Mary Rathbone is an Athens resident who will speak at this year’s event on March 27th.
Rathbone is the founder of Moms Adopting Moms, a nonprofit dedicated to working alongside biological parents whose children have entered the foster care system. Not only does the organization work to reunite parents and children, as Rathbone reveals, it seeks to transform the foster care system as a whole.
Guns2Gardens: campus ministry to host firearm donation event
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.
