About the Service
Even though chemical warfare has been used since ancient times, it was not deployed on a large scale until WWI. During this war, several different chemical weapons were used with horrific effects on the soldiers exposed to them.

Since the First World War, chemical weapons have continued to be used in one form or another around the world—despite being banned by both the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the 1972 Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention.

Chemical weapons have caused untold misery throughout history, and that is why the United Nations has made the Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare an annual event observed every November 30th. On this day, all efforts to rid the world of chemical weapons should be intensified, and all past victims should be honored.

About Our Speaker
Joy is an active member of this church, and her broad interests and love of education greatly enhance our congregation. During a training session while working in corrections, she experienced firsthand what tear gas does. And after watching concerned citizens in the streets of the United States be attacked with tear gas and pepper spray, she became more interested in the international protocols signed into law in 1972, which prohibit the use of “asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices” and “bacteriological methods of warfare”.