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CATALYST @ Wayne State

WHO: Catalyst is open to any University student or friend. Besides Wayne State, we'd love to have students from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit Mercy, and U of M Dearborn. Really, we're open to everyone!

WHAT: Catalyst will consist of two phases. In phase one, we will meet together weekly to learn and discuss Detroit: its weaknesses, strengths, and history. Topics will include homelessness, poverty, healthy food access, urban gardening, medical access, and race. Guests from Detroit non-profits and churches will join us to share their experience of the city. We will donate our time to many of these non-profits to get a full picture of what they're all about. In phase two, we will put what we learned into action. Each student will be given $100 to start a project of their own or help an existing service/ministry. Students will also be guided on ways to multiply this money to make an even larger impact. These projects will aim to serve the city, the campus, or both.

WHEN: We meet weekly at various locations around campus. To find out where we're meeting this week, just call us at 313-718-2275.

HOW: Interested in joining us? Have more questions? Just contact us at 313-718-2275 or email with the contact tab above.

SUPPORT:  You can support this ministry by donating to our Ministry Jubilee Fund #1218 with the Detroit Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.  Please send checks made out to  "DAC Treasurer" with "WSU CAMPUS MINISTRY MJ #1218" in the memo to:  Detroit Annual Conference, 1309 North Ballenger Hwy., Suite 1, Flint, MI.

 

Detroit Villages Community Gathering

Jan 28 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Join us for this monthly gathering, new this year with food, fellowship, local musicians and some visual prayers for our city and neighborhoods.  

WHERE:  Kresge Hall at Metro UMC, 8000 Woodward Ave

WHEN:  Saturday, January 28th, 7pm 

WHAT:  Bring some food, share in a meal, hear some good music and a good word, pray for one another.

This year we are interested in having communities bring the best of what they do to these gatherings, so along with a potluck dish we're hoping that groups step up to help with the following pieces:

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Maria Needs a place to stay!

My name is Maria Noth and I just recently returned from working several months in a mission Maternity center in the Philippines, and I am looking for a room to rent in the greater detroit area. I will be apprenticing a local Midwife and finishing my schooling, in the Royal Oak area and would like to be keyed into community. Please email any leads to Mariatnoth@gmail.com. Any leads would be greatly appreciated!  

2011 Project

2011 Project

Submitted by melaniewierda on January 31, 2011 - 12:35pm

This past semester Catalyst read the book "Not For Sale" by David Batstone. This book told the stories of individuals who are fighting to end modern day slavery. This inspired me to concentrate on increasing awareness of child labor and human trafficking for my 2011 project. To raise awareness I will be screening the film The Dark Side of Chocolate, which exposes how chocolate is produced using child labor and human trafficking. Let the planning begin!

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Catalyst "Office Hours" @ Jimmy John's

Oct 22 2010 - 11:00am - 1:00pm

 Time to chill and converse about Catalyst projects and other miscellany.  Drop by and Carl might even buy you a sandwich!  Bring a friend who doesn't believe you when you say your campus group will be passing out c-notes!

Catalyst @ Slow's

Oct 13 2010 - 8:00pm

 Catalyst heads to Slow's BBQ in Corktown for an introduction into Hipster culture and the returning resources to the City of Detroit.  But have no fear - the homeless BBQ is coming up on Saturday as a chance to see how the other half grills.

Haunted Bonfire/Fall Harvest Potluck

Oct 27 2010 - 7:00pm

Haunted Bonfire + NEW CONSP!RE MAGS!

Wednesday, October 27, 7pm
4963 Larkins (Advent House)

Fall Harvest Potluck. Bring a pumpkin pie, come in costume, bob for apples. And, as the Detroit Villages gathering for this month, we'll have new editions of CONSP!RE Magazine for you to take home!

CATALYST @ WSU: Returns!

Oct 6 2010 - 8:00pm

 Students as Wayne State interested in practicing their skills as "missional entrepreneurs" are invited to participate in this year's class of CATALYST students.  We meet weekly to discuss Detroit, mission/ministry opportunities here, and to receive micro-grants of $100 per participant to see what kind of good you can do by engaging your friends in building up God's beloved community on Earth.Where:  Starbucks on Anthony Wayne Drive, WSU CampusWhen:  8pm, October 6 (and regularly weekly after that)

Who are the students in our college ministries?

Submitted by Carl on July 26, 2010 - 10:06am

Some thoughts requested for a study on college students today. Who are they? What are they like? and How do our ministries engage them?

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Touring the clinic

Touring the clinic

The Catalyst group has a bunch of Nutrition majors, so they made sure to check out the health services available through J-SCDC.

Catalyst field trip to Joy-Southfield

Catalyst field trip to Joy-Southfield

Dave Law gave Catalyst a tour of the Joy-Southfield center. The Christmas decorations are so aptly titled!

Catalyst '09

Catalyst '09

Students gather for weekly Catalyst sessions, where they hear from local experts on Detroit and prepare for service-based projects after the New Year. Shane Claiborne's "Irresistible Revolution" serves as the text for this "mission class" and each student will be asked to create a project that claims their own Calcutta and engages a small group of other students in the work.

CATALYST InGathering

Oct 5 2009 (All day)

InGathering of Catalyst student leaders for '09-'10. Time for conversation and introductions to both the people and the process for rebuilding a service-based, entrepreneurial, United Methodist connected campus ministry at WSU.

A Midtown Detroit Student Living Center?

As we begin our pilot program for gathering student leaders from WSU into a Catalyst program for entrepreneurial missional leadership, we're also researching the possibility of a "student living center" to serve as a base of operations for a reborn UM campus ministry at Wayne State.

New Chapter is an organization that helps fraternities, sororities, and campus ministries finance and build such centers in which students can live in community and have space for program gathering, offices, etc.

CATALYST: Beginnings

Hello! Welcome to the profile page for an experiment in campus ministries called "CATALYST @ Wayne State" in Detroit, Michigan. CATALYST is designed as an opportunity to rebuild the United Methodist campus ministry presence at Wayne State University through the energy and missional entrepreneurship of students there. With these posts we hope to communicate both the model and progress of this exciting development work to individuals and churches interested in partnering with us!

Re-imagining UM Campus Ministry at Wayne State

A network of entrepreneurial Christian student leaders multiplying modest financial but vibrant personal resources for the rebirth of United Methodist sponsored campus ministries at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.

Visit http://prezi.com/112910/ for a view of what CATALYST at Wayne State might be!