Trinity UMC: Montana Here We Come!

The Montana Mission Team headed out of Charlotte last Friday, July 31st and arrived in Heart Butte, Saturday, August 1st. After a VERY long trip to get there, they all arrived safely in Great Falls and made the standard trip to Sam's for grocercies. Since the grocery store is a two hour drive from the church in Heart Butte, you plan on buying EVERYTHING you will need for the WHOLE two weeks in ONE trip! Plus, you have to factor in feeding a LARGE part of the community during your stay. It makes for QUITE an expeierence to say the least! If you have been a part of this mission trip and been a "Team Leader" on the trip to Sam's you know what I'm talking about!

After heading out of Sam's, the team started on the two hour journey to the United Methodist Church in Heart Butte, MT where they will be staying until Tuesday, August 11th. During this Mission Trip, they will host Vacation Bible School with up to 40-50 kids EACH day, serve dinner to the community several nights, repair a few roofs (I'm sure!), build a wheelchair ramp (if needed), talk to the people and more importantly listen to them, chase a few kids around the church (more than once), tell Regis to stop setting things on fire, tell Colby to stop doing something (I'm sure!), take a day trip into Canada to enjoy God's creation, TAKE TONS OF PICTURES, study God's word, and receive a tremendous amount of blessings!

I have included some photos from previous mission trips to Montana. For those of you who have been before, this should bring back memories... and for those of you who haven't been a part, this might just make you want to go. Enjoy!

Waiting at the Great Falls Airport.
You can pretty much see the entire airport in this photo!

The view on the way to Heart Butte, driving across Mt.

Vacation Bible School. We always feed the kids lunch.

Craft time at Bible School. Preacher Rick is "helping" Jeron.

Donnie is helping Bunky.
He couldn't see very well, so Donnie is letting him use his glasses.

Wishie telling us a story about something! =)

The women's work project! Cleaning out the vestibule!
It was being using for STORAGE!

We got the room cleaned out!
Then we stained the wood wall and filled holes in the plaster!

The we painted the walls, the floor, built this new table, and hung art work!

This the room complete! Hopefully it looks exactly like that this year!

The men's work project was to build a storage unit for all the stuff in the vestibule.

Jeff and Donnie working hard!

Loading the storage shed up with all the stuff that was kept in the vestibule of the church.

The New Storage Shed for the Church... Complete!

Smoky and Arlene taught Yates the Hand Game

Girls Night. 9-13 year olds came to the church and spent the night.
We painted finger nails, gave pedicures, and giggled the whole night!