Mental Health First Aid

A workshop to help you identify and respond to symptoms of mental illness

"You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce...

Preparing the church for natural and man-made disasters Workshop

UMCOR (United Methodist Church Disaster Organization) is conducting a training session on preparing the church for natural and man-made disasters. This should be attended by Trustees, Finance, Communications, Ushers and any other helps ministry. It will take place,...

Civil Disobedience Workshop by Democracy Spring

This workshop is sponsored and led by a movement called Democracy Spring, which was created to get money out of politics through organized nonviolent civil-disobedience. This group is interested in getting their movement off the ground here in Michigan and if...

Community Work Day

We plan to have loads of help from Central Michigan University students so come out and join us. Painting the Asbury House will be one of the main projects. Meet at the Asbury Parking lot at 8:30 am.

Water Resources Workgroup Meetings

This group includes individuals working to get resources to the residents of Flint in response to the water crisis. The Points of Distribution Service (PODS) centers and the Community Help Centers were born out of this group. We meet each Tuesday in the Food Bank...

Creation is not for Sale

Pastor Monica Willarreal of Salem Lutheran Church offered a statement of conviction that I chose to write down for further reflection at a later time. "Creation is not for sale." We were part of an ecumenical group who gathered at Bethel United Methodist Church to...