There’s an old joke among people who live in Detroit that a gallon of gasoline is cheaper than a movie ticket. The idea is that you’d essentially buy the gasoline, light your house on fire and watch it burn. It’s cheaper to destroy everything you have and leave the city than to stay.
June 11 through 18“Detroit does have the highest murder rate in the United States but the people there are genuinely loving people. It’s the hard circumstances that push people to the edge.”
Alumna Ashley Selvey
Ekklesia pastor, Garret Shelsta, has been going on mission trips similar to this one for 12 years. Shelsta said his mission for this trip is to find problems in Detroit he may not have noticed before in Bellingham, and see how prevalent those issues are.
“This is not just a problem that happens in another city but a problem that happens in ours.”
Ekklesia pastor, Garret Shelsta
While at a meeting in Detroit with other students on a similar mission, he noticed a group of men crowded around large studded bikes. He decided to check out what was going on. Sure enough, it was the Grown Men on Bikes.
