Volunteer Saturdays
Cass Community Social Services (
www.casscommunity.org) fights poverty and creates opportunity in the city of Detroit. The agency operates with a person-centered philosophy, dedicated to providing food, housing, health services, and job programs.
The volunteer work varies month to month. The ways First UMC volunteers have served includes:
- cleaned, mended and painted rooms for affordable housing
- set up beds for warming centers
- weeded gardens, trimmed shrubs, planted trees and flowers, mowed grass and cleaned outside to beautify and make areas safer for residents
- prepped mass quantities of bacon and eggs for breakfast, assembled sandwiches and packaged lunches to feed the community
- sorted and shredded paper to recycle and raise money for fighting poverty.
2025 Saturdays: Sept. 13, Oct. 11, Nov. 8, Dec. 13.
2026 Saturdays: Jan. 10, Feb. 14, March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13
Each month we depart from the Brighton Campus parking lot at approximately 8 am and return by approximately 4 pm.
