Mission

The Mission Team continues to fulfill its primary role of presenting opportunities for our congregation to participate in and support local and distant missions of outreach and service. Some of the many projects include the CROP Walk, Gallatin Valley Food Bank, Intermountain Children's Home, Foster Children Christmas, Mitten/Sweatshirt tree for Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Books for Africa, and We March Together. Contact the church office at 586-5413 for more information about any of these ministries.

Local

National & International

Other ways you can help

Local
Family Promise of Gallatin Valley	BUMC is one of the churches participating in Bozeman’s newly established interfaith ministry to homeless families. The program provides temporary housing in local churches while the parents work, gain training and seek employment so the family can move into permanent housing. Volunteers are needed when BUMC is hosting the families 2-3 time each year and in the Family Promise office/ day facility. BUMC Contact: Margo Janke 587-9782, Sally McConnell 522-9694, or Loreene Reid 586-6727. Gloria Edwards, Program Director, at 582.7388. Visit the Family Promise of Gallatin Valley web site at http://www.familypromisegv.org/.
Habitat for Humanity	Watch for opportunities to help build Habitat homes with BUMC or special build events like the annual Women’s Build. Volunteers are also needed at the Re-Store in Belgrade. Bonnie and Charles Hash host the annual Ice Cream Social fundraiser in August for Habitat. Participation in any of these activities is welcome. If interested contact Dick Lund 587-7233 or Janet Winnie 582-0779
Bread of Life Ministries	This local ministry works to provide for the needs of needy and homeless people in the area. They offer support in the form food, clothing, shelter and many other ways. Contact: Jeneffer Smith 586-5413 ext 100.
Gallatin Valley Food Bank	Food donations are collected in the wooden crate in the parlor area every week and delivered by members of the Missions Team to the food bank. Special collection times at BUMC include Pluck a Feather Fall Food Drive during November, Super Bowl Sunday soup collection and the US Postal Service food drive in May. Volunteers can help at the food bank. Contact Heather Grenier, Program Director GVFB 586-7600. BUMC contact: Dean Richardson, 388-0034.
HIS Soup ~ Mobile Soup Kitchen	This is the prayer inspired ministry of Paul Thomas to local homeless and others in need of nourishment and spiritual support. BUMC supports this ministry monetarily. The Youth have participated by making and sharing lunches and by collecting warm blankets and coats in the past. Contact: Gloria Edwards 587-9614.
CROP walk	The CROP Walk is a locally organized, Church World Service sponsored 10k walk bringing together people of different faiths, diverse cultures and all ages with the goal of raising support for more than 3200 local food banks and meal sites in the US. The event takes place in October each year. BUMC members can sign up to walk and raise pledges and/or support walkers for the event. Contact: Irene Eidet 586-2650 & Bonnie Hash 587-7233.
Faith-Health Ministry	This outreach based in the basement of BUMC serves the needs of homeless people who can come on Saturday mornings 9:00 am to noon and receive a meal, take a shower and get a limited health screen and referrals to the Gallatin Community Clinic. Volunteer nurses, physicians and non-medical helpers are needed to provide this service. If you’d like to participate in this ministry to make a difference in our community, contact Bonnie Hash 587-7055.
Parish Nursing	A dedicated group of nurses in our congregation offer their time and professional skill serving the needs of the homeless who come to the Saturday Faith Health clinics. They also provide health information to BUMC members during the coffee hours. Nurses interested in getting involved as a parish nurse can contact Bonnie Hash: 587-7233.
Gallatin Community Clinic	Special offerings at different times during the year raise support for this local clinic that offers health care to underinsured or uninsured individuals.
Intermountain Children’s Home	Intermountain Children's Home is a Methodist Church affiliated treatment home for emotionally and physically abused children in Helena. Children get intensive therapy to heal emotional wounds, attend an onsite school and learn how to form healthy relationships. BUMC supports ICH kids through Christmas gift giving, financial support from the annual budget and other one time projects. Contact: Janet Winnie 582-0779, Kim Scurry 522-8874, or Jeneffer Smith 586-5413. Click here for more information: www.intermountain.org.
Adoption and Family Support Program	The Adoption and Family Support Program is associated with the Intermountain Children’s Home in Helena to find adoptive homes for the children and to provide ongoing support to the children and their families after children have completed the two-year therapy program at ICH. BUMC collects funds during the Lent Offering annually to support this important program. Contact: Janet Winnie 582-0779.
Foster Children Christmas Gifts	Each year BUMC members sponsor over 100 local foster children by providing Christmas gifts for their annual Christmas party. Contact: Janet Winnie 582-0779 or Ann Dickensheets 586-5413.
Browning and Heart Butte Parish	The Missions Team organizes the collection of gifts of warm clothes with the Mitten Tree during the Christmas season. Other outreach such as Youth Summer Missions, sharing supplies for the Heart Butte Head Start and a recent car seat fundraiser are other ways BUMC shares with these communities. Contact: Dean Richardson, 388-0034.
Love In the Name of Christ (Love INC)	LOVE Inc works to link resources to the needs of people in the area. To help with this ministry, LOVE Inc needs to know how you might be able to share your skills in ways such as providing transportation to appointments, offering to help with financial planning or helping do mechanical or repair projects for people in need. There a LOVE Inc Sunday when you can offer financial support and the annual community wide fundraiser, Plant the Seed Dinner. BUMC currently needs a volunteer coordinator. Interested in any of the above? Contact Jeneffer Smith 586-5413.
National & International
Angola Partnership	BUMC has a partnership with the East Angolan United Methodist conference through the Yellowstone UM conference. Financial support to pay pastors’ salaries, donations of health care and craft supplies, educational materials for school children, water purification projects and building supplies are ways this congregation has already impacted the poverty stricken region of this country. Angola support has come from the Youth (Afri-cans), WOW kids, United Methodist Women, special offerings and the Missions Team. Another mission trip is planned for the summer of 2007 BUMC will be sending a gift of mosquito nets to the East Angolans. Contact Janet Winnie 582-0779.
Books for Africa	Donations of money for the purchase of textbooks to be distributed to African countries are being taken now. Contact: Steve Garrison 570-6868.
Sheperd in Mongolia	Helen Sheperd is a registered nurse currently doing Hospice care in Mongolia. BUMC has a covenant relationship to provide financial support for her ministry. A special Offering is collected during Lent to meet this financial goal. Helen visits BUMC every few years when she is on furlough providing a wonderful way to know her and hear about her work. Contact: Bonnie Hash 587-7055. Click here for more information about Helen Sheperd's Mongolian Ministry.
Volunteers in Mission	UMCOR United Methodist Committee on Relief provides VIM opportunities for United Methodists that encourages members to participate in short term missions activities around the world. BUMC has sent VIM teams to Chile, Angola, Mississippi and plan to do more. Glenn Allinger 586-5757. See pictures of the 2009 trip to Waveland, MS for Katrina clean-up.
Other ways you can help	Please bring any of the following to the church office. Box Tops for Education, collected for our local schools. Campbell’s soup labels, collected for the Willson Avenue Preschool. Canceled stamps, collected for Heifer International. Cell Phones, collected for The Network and VIM. Used eye glasses, collected for the Lion’s Club. Ink Jet Cartridges: The Teen UMW group saves used ink jet cartridges to help fund their mission work. Pop top tabs (from aluminum cans), collected for the Ronald McDonald House and Kidney Dialysis Help. Toiletries (travel-size soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes) for people in our community who shower at our church. Recycling: We try to recycle in our church as much as possible, and sometimes this becomes a pretty big job! If you can help with collecting the recyclables around the church, contact the office. Towel Washing: Our church provides showers for those in need, and this brings many dirty towels to be washed weekly.