MISSION

HOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD

At Ann Arbor Christian Reformed Church, we seek to live out the love of the Triune God through compassion, reconciliation, and justice in our community and the world, through partnership with local and global ministries.

MISSION THROUGH ACTION

  • Social Justice Team

    The mission of the AACRC Social Justice team is to encourage, inform, educate, equip and mobilize members of the Ann Arbor Christian Reformed Church to work for justice wherever God places us and calls us to follow him. Our work is guided principally by the five justice areas identified by the OSJRR — racial justice and reconciliation, creation care, criminal justice reform, hunger and poverty, and immigration reform.

  • Rotating Shelter

    For two consecutive weeks each year, AACRC hosts the Rotating Shelter, a program of the Shelter Association of Washtenaw County. The Rotating Shelter provides a comfortable, overnight space for men experiencing homelessness during the cold months. Our church community provides hospitality for the men through snacks and warm meals, a quiet place to sleep, and conversation for those who desire it during their stay.

  • Food & Faith Garden

    Our church is responding to God’s call to let justice flow like a river, especially as it relates to hunger and poverty, by planting a garden on our property. This garden provides a hands-on approach to doing God’s work of justice in our community. Volunteers build, plant and tend the garden. The produce gathered is donated to Food Gatherers, a food bank and food rescue program serving Washtenaw County.

  • Friendship Ministry

    Friendship Ministry is a program designed to provide loving support and fellowship for young people and adults with special needs. We meet twice each month at the church for a time of singing, Bible instruction, prayer, and just plain fun. Students and their teachers benefit from one-on-one relationships.

MISSION THROUGH PARTNERS

  • Cohort Detroit

    Cohort Detroit partners with Detroiters to raise up the next generation of leaders who love God, live justice, and serve our neighbors. Through our annual 10-month cohort--which includes weekly learning gatherings, travel intensives, mentorship and professional counseling--Cohort Detroit equips young leaders as they transform in the Spirit, live out Christ's love, and confront injustice and inequity alongside our neighbors in Detroit and beyond. 

    Cohort Detroit

  • Hesed Community Church

    Hesed Community Church is a joint CRC/RCA faith community focused on discipleship, leadership development, and community development in Detroit neighborhoods.

    Hesed Community Church

  • Hope Clinic

    Hope Clinic is a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian medical and social service organization. Its goal is to provide compassionate and practical help to those in need, ministering to the whole person. This includes providing comprehensive health and dental care and a range of other services.

    Hope Clinic

  • CAP

    CAP is an agency in the Nardin Park Neighborhood in Detroit that provides financial assistance, food and clothing to individuals and families who are in need. AACRC participates in several of their programs including donations of used clothing, Thanksgiving Day meals, Spring Produce Run and food collection.

    Community Assistance Program

  • Friends In Deed

    Friends in Deed is an interfaith organization that responds to unmet needs of low-income Washtenaw County residents. They partner with the community to provide critical financial assistance, furniture, congregational services and agency referrals.

    Friends In Deed

  • Habitat for Humanity

    Habitat for Humanity of Huron Valley partners with potential homeowners to build a new life for themselves through decent, affordable homeownership. Ann Arbor CRC participates in the House of Faith build days each year.

    Habitat for Humanity

  • DAAM

    Located in the North End Neighborhood in Detroit, DAAM is devoted to meeting the spiritual and physical needs of the poor in surrounding neighborhoods while promoting and encouraging general rescue mission work in the City of Detroit and nearby suburbs.

    Detroit's Afro-American Mission

  • Sienna Women's Health

    Sienna Women’s Health (Family Life Services), has been Washtenaw County’s trusted source for women’s reproductive healthcare for over 35 years. We operate a professional medical office in Ypsilanti with staff dedicated to serving women facing unplanned pregnancies who look forward to serving you.

    Sienna Women's Health

  • Campus Chapel

    The Campus Chapel is a ministry of the Christian Reformed Church to the University of Michigan. For more than eighty years, the Chapel’s mission has been to foster a community of students, faculty, and others devoted to “loving God with heart and mind” in all that God has called them to do.

    Campus Chapel

  • Jeff & Julie Bouman

    Our vision in this calling is to serve alongside the ministries of the Reformed Church in Hungary (RCH); in particular to serve with Kalunba, a refugee-serving organization that provides safe homes, a loving community, and social inclusion to those seeking asylum and refuge in the capital city of Budapest.

    Jeff & Julie Bouman

  • Jim & Ruth Padilla DeBorst

    James and Ruth live in Casa Adobe in Costa Rica, an intentional community working together to create a vision of God’s Kingdom here on earth, where friendships exist across distances, where justice becomes a visual practice, and where love is shared with friends and strangers alike.

    Jim & Ruth Padilla DeBorst