It was twenty-five years ago. Pastor Duane Beck of Belmont Mennonite Church had just done a funeral for a young man in the neighborhood who had died from a gunshot wound. At the service, Pastor Duane told the young man’s friends: If you would like to do something to bring meaning and change from this death, then I’ll help you organize yourselves. Out of that offer, a local movement began – it was entirely youth led, and it called itself Drop Your Guns. Over the next number of months, DYG organized themselves into a hopeful force in Elkhart. They spoke to local businesses, to churches,
