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Southfield priest launches ongoing gun buyback program BY KATHRYN PENTIUK kpentiuk@candgnews.com
SOUTHFIELD/BERKLEY — Rev. Chris Yaw, rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Southfield, announced the launch of Disamory Ministries on April 29. The nonprofit Christian ministry is “seeking to care for neighbors by providing gun buyback opportunities,” coupling thoughts and prayers with action to get unwanted guns off the streets. “I stand before you with a very heavy heart, a heart weighed down with the senseless suffering of too many gun violence victims in our country,» said Yaw, the president of Disamory Ministries, at the press conference. “It is a nation where the cries of parents over their children, two of whom are shot every hour in the U.S., are too often heard. It is the wails of family members who discover yet another victim has died of a self-inflicted gunshot, the most common form of gun violence in America, and it is the general sobbing of the victim of a crime committed with a stolen firearm, as more than half of them are.” Yaw has been an activist for gun buybacks, having appeared on “The Daily Show” and in a New York Times article that found the guns collected at buybacks in Flint and Southfield were not destroyed but were instead recycled and resold. Additionally, since 2022, St. David’s Episcopal has See GUNS on page 7A Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
Rt. Rev. Bonnie A. Perry delivers a blessing over the Disarmory Ministries chopsaws. The nonprofit’s launch was announced April 29.
TRUMP ANNOUNCES NEW SELFRIDGE FIGHTER MISSION HARRISON TOWNSHIP — During a stop in Macomb County on April 29, President Don-
ald Trump announced that Selfridge Air National Guard Base would receive a new mission with 21 “brand new” F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets. Announced at Selfridge alongside state and federal officials to an audience of Michigan Na-
tional Guard members and press, the F-15EX jets will replace the aging and outgoing A-10 Thunderbolt II jets as the base’s offensive mission. The planes are expected to arrive at the base in fiscal See SELFRIDGE on page 6A
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