Detroit Detroit ranks first in poverty per capita in the large cities in the United States. Twenty-six thousand jobs have left Southwest Detroit in recent years.
Gangs are prominent.
Depression and hopelessness are constant challenges to its residents. Initially, we came alongside to help bolster the existing ministry of Military Avenue Presbyterian Church, an inner-city EPC church in Southwest Detroit, and now plan to plant additional churches in urban Detroit using Military Avenue EPC as a home base. The Military Avenue EPC has been in Detroit since 1885. It was organized as a church in 1902 and is now a mission in Southwest Detroit which ministers to the spiritual and physical needs of more than 500 people. It plans to expand its current outreach through evangelism, follow-up and discipleship, and work toward a healthy indigenous congregation in this challenging Southwest Detroit community.