EYC to participate in March for Our Lives

March 12, 2018 Uncategorized

Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example

in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Timothy 4:12

A few days after the shootings at the high school in Parkland, Florida, which took the lives of 17 students and staff, I sat down with the EYC, the Episcopal Youth Community. I cannot tell you enough about the great sensitivity, openness and wisdom that our youth possess. They talked about the reality of gun violence, and how that drastically impacts their feelings of safety in their schools. They want change, the kind of change which makes their schools and the rest of society a more secure place.

We will be attending the March for Our Lives event, which is a nationwide and international effort to speak out against gun violence in our schools and to advocate for the safety of young people. We will be attending the march that will be happening in Newport News at the Christopher Newport University Ferguson Field on Saturday, March 24 at 10:00 a.m. Please feel free to join us and show our young people that we care.

The Rev. Lorna H. Williams