1. Consider the experience. This is a bit of wisdom I heard a lot at design school. You always have to think about the user experience. If someone walks into the kitchen at Motown and asks us to refill the cereal container, we have a choice – do we want to make that a positive …
The interns. The past few weeks at Motown Mission have been tough for everyone, and it’s been nothing short of fascinating to see how each of the interns function under stress.I think that at some points, we have been putting the intentional community of interns ahead of our actual purpose here. We’re here to create …
We watched the fireworks from a field next to the Ambassador Bridge! One of our goals as interns at Motown Mission is to live in intentional community.Of course, there’s no single idea of what intentional community means, or one strict set of rules. Instead, we made a covenant together. The covenant lists things that we …
We went to Eastern Market. My first Saturday staying in the city, we went to Eastern Market to get food for the weekend. It was the first time I’ve gone to Eastern Market without my family, and it was interesting.As a kid, I remember coming to Eastern Market with my mom and grandmother. We would …
This is Metropolitan United Methodist, the church where I’m living this summer. It is gorgeous, inside and out. “I’m pregaming for a midlife crisis” is what I tell people when I explain my interest in service work. “I’m worried that I’ll turn 40 and realize that I haven’t done anything meaningful in my life, and …