By Matt Mackinder
Clarkston News Editor

For more than 15 years, Clarkston United Methodist Church has supported local communities during a week-long mission, Love In Action.
The mission has supported those who are marginalized from Pontiac to Flint.
This year, the Love in Action mission served at the South Flint Soup Kitchen on Fenton Road in Flint. The South Flint Soup Kitchen, now supported as a satellite of Asbury, serves hundreds of meals each month. It also provides a clothes closet, household goods, school supplies and seasonal items. The South Flint Soup Kitchen is also a community hub.
Church members and staff spent the week of June 5-9 streamlining packaged food distribution, painting, repairing staircases, multiple maintenance upgrades, building shelving for storage, replacing 50-year-old carpeting with a laminate floor, upgrading a men’s bathroom with new vanities and paint, landscaping, and more.
“The ability to do this work was made possible by sharing our God-given gifts,” wrote Diane Sweet, communications and donor relations at the church.
In 2022, church members and staff worked to enhance the worship experience for parishioners with special needs in Lake Orion and in the past, worked to provide safe shelter and healing support for those who were homeless after being released from local hospitals.
Individuals also worked at beautifying a housing campus for young people facing homelessness and survivors of trafficking in Detroit.

PHOTO: Clarkston United Methodist Church members and staff gather after serving at the South Flint Soup Kitchen last month. Photo: Provided by Diane Sweet