Service projects and activities
We host an annual Ten Thousand Villages sale. Ten Thousand Villages provides fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. The photo at right features examples of their products. We also provide our members with an easy way to order fair trade coffee from Equal Exchange. The coffee is grown in an environmentally sound manner and the Equal Exchange program ensures growers receive a fair price for their product. We provide meals for Loaves and Fishes Ministries emergency housing. We also frequently participate in the Greater Lansing CROP walk, a fundraiser for hunger relief. These are a sampling of our service work. |
 Sample products from Ten Thousand Villages. |
| In the winter of 2006, a carload of men spent a week working with Mennonite Disaster Service near Century, Florida, repairing homes from hurricane damage. Hurricane Ivan struck Florida September 16, 2004 as a catagory 3 storm with sustained winds of 125 mpg. The town of Century is located in a heavily forested area near the Alabama border and sustained very heavy tree damage with the majority of the homes receiving damage. See photos below. | |
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| Drywall work in one of the homes. | Selecting tools for the day. |
| Below, the team stopped in Montgomery, Alabama enroute to Florida to visit the civil rights monument and the Dexter Avenue Memorial Baptist Church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was once pastor. | |
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