A group of local artists and church workers are asking for donations of guns for a blacksmith demonstration, which will forge weapons into garden tools Thursday, June 22, at Bluffton University.

The demonstration is part of Central District Conference, Mennonite Church USA, annual meeting, held on campus.

Contact RAWtoolsEvent@gmail.com to donate a gun, or to learn more about the event.

According to Wendy Chappell-Dick, contact person for the event, the following groups and churches are participants in the blacksmith program.

Bluffton University
First Mennonite Church, Bluffton
Grace Mennonite Church, Pandora
Lima Mennonite Church
P.E.A.C.E. Club of Bluffton University
The Lion and the Lamb Peace Arts Center
Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Lima