

St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church ​
Trenton, New Jersey
St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church is a community of believers that is rooted in God’s unconditional grace and love, striving to share God’s light of hope and salvation to scatter the darkness wherever it is found, through word and deed.
"Little church with a BIG heart!"






Our nation has been through a variety of horrific events surrounding gun violence, and it has brought the conversation to the forefront of our current events and “water cooler” conversations. It has largely become a binary conversation of either more guns or more laws. RAWtools wants to open a new option, a third way: What if we made a commitment to solve our problems without guns and violence?
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​Turning guns into garden tools is at the center of the work of RAWtools. It connects our programs and enables storytelling—stories of magnificent transformation as well as the deep trauma of grief and loss.
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We are excited to announce that we have a RAWtools branch right here in Trenton, NJ!
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Shop Hours: Fridays & Ssturdays at 1PM! (weather permitting)
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As part of the RAWtools network of blacksmiths, woodworkers, and artists, we have the opportunity to be a part of the annual Maker Marathon, honoring lives lost to gun violence the previous year. We work 1 minute for every life lost, which in 2024, was about 40,000 lives. We live stream as much as we can to help raise awareness. We plan to start on May 31.
Each year we have a special challenge and this year is focused on children. Gun Violence is the leading cause of death for age 18 and under. Toys, garden tools, games, will be made!
This also ties into the recent release of the children's book, Sparking Peace, by Teresa Kim Pecinovsky and Hannah Rose Martin, which includes a guide to help talk to children about gun violence.
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