Detroit Blog: Work Day 3 (Wednesday) with Work Crew 1
Day 3, Wednesday, July 6 Today we went to Coleman Young Community Center to participate in a day camp for children ages 3-12. Our group split between the 3-5 year olds and the 6-12 year olds. In the younger group there was arts and crafts, games and dance. The older group went to the playground,...
Detroit Blog: Work Day 2 (Tuesday) from Work Crews 2 and 6
We will never throw anything out again without wondering what our worksite organization, Arts & Scraps, would make with it! Arts & Scraps is a non-profit organization which collects donated remnants, scraps, fabric samples, packing materials and anything else you can possibly imagine and packages them into kits for children all over Detroit and surrounding...
Detroit Blog: Work Day 1 with Team 8
Work Day 1 (Saturday, July 2) Feedom Freedom Growers This morning our group went to Freedom Freedom Growers. The first item of business was to learn that the location was actually called Feedom Freedom. We worked with Myrtle and Wayne the caretakers of the community garden and urban farm. We taught them about s’mores, they...
Detroit Blog: Prayer Requests
Prayer Requests from our Bloggers: From Participant Kendra: I’d like to pray for all the adults going with us to Detroit. I pray that they are able to tend to any needs of the group while we are there, and that they can keep us safe. I’d also like to pray for the friends and...
Detroit Blog: Team Leader Amanda on Fears
THREE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For me the journey for this trip started over a year ago when we initially began talking about where our trip could go. And now it’s just a few short days before we get on those buses and head west! As much as I’m excited for the trip and everything that it will...
Detroit Blog: Participant Kendra on Fears
I am afraid that I will not be able to fix everything. I found that this happened when I went to South Dakota and it is just something you have to accept. We are only there for 10 days, and we cannot make everything all better in just 10 days, but we CAN make a...
Detroit Blog: Team Leader Veronica on Culture
Culture is something that you just can’t put a label on, and that’s a good thing, because as justice-seekers, we have to be careful about putting labels on people. One thing I’d like to learn about the many cultures representing Detroit is how they all get along. I’d like to learn about the relationships between...
Power Point from Gathering Info Sessions
The power point from the Gathering Info Sessions is now available for download. Click here to download the power point!
Detroit Blog: Participant Kendra on Detroit’s Culture
I want to learn what living in another culture is like when I am in Detroit. As I mentioned in a previous blog, someone told me that Detroit is like a third world country. I am curious to see what they meant by this, to see how and what this looks like when I am...
Detroit Blog: Team Leader Amanda on Detroit’s Culture
As soon as I started looking into destinations for this year’s Servant Trip, I was very excited by the prospect of going to Detroit! The Motorcity – home of the Model T and Motown music (woah. I never realized there were so many ‘M’s with Detroit). To me, Detroit has always been a city in...