Service and Community
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Good Samaritan Neighborhood Mission
The Good Samaritan Neighborhood Mission aims to give assistance to persons who are in critical need of basic necessities. This ministry allows a person to experience grace, mercy and guidance through faithful disciples who seek to reach persons with Christ’s redeeming love in tangible ways. It provides assistance for clothing, food, medicine, housing and access to work.
Addis-Thompson Class
This class for adults with special needs meets on the lower level to the right of the stairs. Most of the members of this class come from the Adult Foster Care Homes in the immediate neighborhood of the church.
Extending a Hand to the Neighborhood Youth
Our Neighborhood Youth Program, involving young people from the immediate community around the church building, offers Saturday morning tutoring, personal enhancement skills, mentoring and recreation. The program is run primarily during the academic year and employs volunteers of Metropolitan with diverse skills who teach the youth about health, safety and other subjects, and offer tutoring in mathematics and reading.
Occasional field trips are sponsored for the youth to give an added dimension to the program and to foster stronger relationships between the participants and volunteers. Volunteers are always needed to increase the reach and effectiveness of the program.
Homeless Project
Metropolitan houses the homeless once a year working with the Homeless Coalition of Detroit and 26 churches, with each church taking a week to house the homeless. Through volunteer efforts of many members, ministry is offered to these individuals, whether it be driving, doing laundry, helping prepare food or supplying needed items.
Connecting Church in Latvia
Metropolitan is a connecting church with the Methodist Church in Liepaja, Latvia. Our contributions have assisted in paying the pastor’s salary and helping the church rebuild itself after being closed for years by the Communist party.
Our sister church, the United Methodist Church in Liepaja, Latvia is now the second largest United Methodist Church in the three Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
In August 1997 as Volunteers in Mission, a work mission team of nine persons from Metro went to Latvia to work in the church. In July 1999 the Epworth Handbell Choir of the church did a mission trip to Liepaja, gave concerts, offered instruction in bells to our sister church and left a set of bells for the church’s use thereafter.
The General Board of Global Ministries sent their first missionaries to Latvia in the autumn of 2000.
Our Missionary to Nepal
Jennifer CollinsMetropolitan supports the work of Jennifer Collins who is a missionary in Kathmandu, Nepal. The projects she undertakes include: training for instructors who teach literacy, improving techniques for disaster relief and increasing women’s literacy.
This ministry provides an opportunity for Metropolitan Church to contribute internationally toward a very worthy endeavor.
Every fifth Sunday of the month a "loose change" offering is taken to help with the support of our missionary.
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