Chinook
Local:
Food pantry (take a food offering the last Sunday of each month)
Prayer Shawl ministry for church and community members
Community Vacation Bible School
Chinook is now officially a Young Adult Volunteer national site. The website for the national program is http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/yav/. The website for the list of national and international sites is http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/yav/sites/.
Presbyterian Mission:
In relationship with Gary Payton
Take all of the 5 "special" offerings
Intermountain Children's Home
Contact Person:
Karen Bradway, Mission Chairman
Conrad
Local:
Contribute to the Pondera Food Pantry and the Pondera Arts Council; an active Deacon's ministry to help those in need in the community
Prayer Shawl Ministry
LOGOS ministry for children and youth from the church and kids from the whole community
VBS
Presbyterian Mission:
Intermountain Children's Home
PW mission projects
Contact Person:
Kirk Kestler, Pastor
Cut Bank
Local:
Special Olympics
Rescue Mission
St. Anne's Soup Kitchen
Casa-can
Jail Ministry
Presbyterian Mission:
Campus Ministry
Glacier Presbyterian Center
PDA
Hunger Program
OGS
Christmas Joy
Dayton
Local:
Wednesday After School Program
Community Bible School
Samaritan House (Kalispell homeless shelter)
Doves (Domestic Violence Advocacy)
Food Bank
Safe Harbor (Battered Women)
Pine Haven Ranch
Presbyterian Mission:
Intermountain Children's Home
Contact Person:
Jan Drye
National
Native Mission in Yakuta, Alaska
Great Falls First
Local
FISH (food bank)
Children's Receiving Home
Mercy Home
Great Falls Rescue Mission
Salvation Army
Opportunities, Inc.
East Middle School Check and Connect
Gateway Community Service
Grace Home
Mountain View and Valley View Elementary School Tutoring Program
Jail Ministry (supporting the library at the jail & volunteers serving inmates)
Lifeway Pregnancy Services
Angel Tree Ministry (Christmas Gifts and Summer Camp for children whose parents are incarcerated)
Soul-er Energy Broadcast (weekly televised worship for rural Montana and parts of Canada)
Young Life
Alternative Christmas Market
Great Falls CROP walk
Presbyterian Mission
Intermountain Children's Home
Glacier Presbyterian Center
Presbyterian Disaster Relief
Presbyterian Churches in Iraq
OGH offering
Pentecost offering
Peacemaking offering
Christmas Joy offering
International. Megan Chaffin
World Vision Children's Fund
Church member missionary serving in Norway as a leader and interpretive dance instructor for "Youth with a Mission"
World Venture missionaries serving in Pakistan in a women's and children's hospital
Support a church in Kanaga
Democratic Republic of Congo
Trips
Senior High Mission Trip ( this year they will be going to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Lueppe, AZ.)
Adult Mission Trip
Great Falls Sunrise
Local
A.A. meetings
Food Bank
Senior Citizen's Center
Host vocal group
Presbyterian Mission
Relationship with Gary Payton
Glacier Presbyterian Center
Intermountain Children's Home
Contact Person
Marlene Tesch (Mission chair) 406-453-3967
Bob Pomajevich: 406-453-3967
Hamilton
Local
Food Bank
S.A.F.E (local disabled veterans ministry financial/other)
S.A.F.E. (Domestic Abuse Center)
Presbyterian Mission
Support Gary Payton
Centsability (Hunger Program)
Heifer International
P.W. Mosquito Nets Project
Contact Person
Lynn Wood, 406-369-2426
Centsability: Bill Knox 406-961-6945
Harlem
Local
Food Bank in Town Hall
Presbyterian Mission
Held car wash to send mosquito nets to Africa. Big success!
Contact Person
Bonnie Russell: 406-353-2393
Or her daughter, Yo-Yo : 406:353-2993 W, 406-353-2993 H
Havre
Local
Havre Food Bank
Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen
The Boys and Girls Club (Last year through the Festival of Tree we took top honors-we are going to do it again this year)
Bell ringers and other volunteers to the Salvation Army
Balloon ministry and music outreach for local charities
Presbyterian Mission
OGHS
Supported Lora & Bruce Whearty
Contact Person
Carol McIntosh scmintosh@bresnan.net
International
100 Bibles to Africa this year
Support an adopted daughter in Africa, Sarah
Helena
Local
After School Program for children at risk (11th year)
Food Share
Good Samaritan
Youth partner twice a year with area churches for hunger-related mission efforts (HangOut for Hunger in Fall, 30 hr. Famine in spring.)
Support Navigators college Ministries
Local college ministry at Carroll College called "CCF"
Contact Person
Pastor Chris Haughee: 406-465-9603 (Presbytery GMM Team Chair)
Les Cramer (church staff-liaison to Mission Committee)
Mission Trips
For adults--To Lame Deer and Birney (Cheyenne Indian Reservation) 5 years
For youth-- Mission to Mexico (2008) and Northern Cheyenne Reservation (2009)
(Youth Group currently discerning mission direction for 2010 trip.)
Hot Springs
Local
Food Bank
Presbyterian Mission
Intermountain Children's Home
Contact Person
Jean Patton-406-741-2876
Kalispell
Local
Habitat for Humanity
Flathead Food Bank
Attention Home (Flathead Youth Home)
Samaritan House (homeless shelter)
Christmas Tree of Hope
Presbyterian Mission
Intermountain Children's Home
Contact Person
Betsy Platt: 837-1431
World Mission
Went on medical mission (30 adults and kids) to Ecuador. Doctors from North Valley and Kalispell Regional hospitals went
The Bible School made 2000 necklaces to hand out
Would like to get used medical equipment for a clinic and to build a church for the community visited
Missoula
Local
Rescue Mission financially and volunteers
2 homeless shelters
Christian Preschool to Second Grade
Poverello Center
Habitat
Food Bank
Red Cross and Ministerial Help fund
Presbyterian Mission
In relationship with Gary Payton
National and International
Union Gospel Mission in Seattle
New Orleans were prior mission trips
Every 3 years go to Mexico with other churches
Through the Rockbridge Ministries (located in Georgia) started and are working on a shelter for street girls in Kenya paired with 2 other Presbyterian churches. Took in $7000 on Easter 2009 and are seeking a P.W. grant to get shelter started for boys who are still on the streets. Kenyans were so impressed that the team of 10 who went stayed in local homes.
Polson
Local
Food Pantry stocked and housed by church
Projects with schools to provide school supplies and other needs
Presbyterian Mission
Relationship with a Mission co-worker in Osaka, Japan (regular contact/fundraising for special projects
Intermountain children's Home (adopted one cottage to recognize kids with birthday presents, special holidays, end of school)
International
Osaka, Japan mission
Potomac
Local
Gifts to needy families at Christmas-monetary
Youth Group works monthly at Missoula Food Bank
Presbyterian Mission
Retirement of Glacier Camp and conference Center debt
OGHS and Christmas Joy Offering
Contact Person
Clyde Weller 251-2413 H
Seeley Lake
Local
Food Bank
Giving Tree at Christmas
Looking at possible help for people who were formerly employed at Pyramid Lumber and have no jobs (60 to 100 families)
Contact Person
Ella Stoker: 406-793-0100
International Mission
Support for a Kenyan seminarian
Missionary Mary Dudley, who has been in Peru, Africa, and Chile with Doctors Without Borders (support to feed the parents of patients in her hospital)
Keeping in communication with Mustard Seed Ministries
Whitefish
Local Missions
Host A.A. Daily Meetings
Provide dinner for clients at Shepherd's Hand Clinic (free medical clinic)Once a month.
Valley food Bank one Monday a month
Habitat for Humanity financial support and Home Building
Ray of Hope Homeless shelter
Providence Home of Kalispell
Presbyterian Mission
Glacier Presbyterian Center
Intermountain Children's Home
Support Gary Payton PCUSA Missions Eastern Europe
Christmas Joy Offering
Contact Person
Frank Leftwich at 406-892-3936 or email at leftwich@centurytel.net
National and International
InterVarsity and Brian and Debbie Lee's college students annual trip mission to Africa
Presbyterian Women projects
SERRV sale of crafts from around the world
House and feed Bike and Build Youth group who will work with Habitat for Humanity each Summer.
Whitlash
Local
Respond to community emergencies (everyone pitches in)
Presbyterian Mission
Glacier Presbyterian Center
1% Fund for Seminaries for 17 years
Contact Person
Diane Thompson : 406-432-5615
International
Veterinary Mission in Mongolia, both financial and correspondence