SPECIAL MONTHLY MISSIONS
At the end of every year our Mission Committee selects a special mission to sponsor for each calendar month, for the following year. Each mission strengthens our community and our love for one another. Please remember to make note of which mission you wish your offering to be appllied to, on your check or offering envelope. Thank you for your continued support.
July:
CASA - MT
Court Appointed Special Advocates
C.A.S.A. / G.A.L. (Court Appointed Special Advocates and Guardians ad Litem) is a non-profit organization that serves children involved in court proceedings. These children have experienced abuse, neglect, and or abandonment in their homes. The advocates from CASA are volunteers who work alongside attorneys and social workers as appointed officers of the court. Their primary job is to listen to the children and to give voice to the needs the child has - to advocate for the best interest of the child(ren) and to provide a consistent presence in their life. Some of these children are victims of: Psychological torment, Neglect, Violence, or Sexual abuse. Not much is heard or even can be shared about the work of CASA due to the highly confidential nature of each situation and for the protection of the children involved. CASA is also in need of volunteers.
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For more information, contact Phone Number: (406) 234-2354, or
Email: casagal@midrivers.com, or visit their website: https://www.casaofeasternmt.org/.
August:
H.O.P.E. Pantry
at CCDHS
H.O.P.E. Pantry (Helping Other People Eat Pantry) is solely for 7-12th grades. This pantry is located at CCDHS (Custer County District High School) and is set up like a convenience store, where students in need have the ability to come "shop" for what they need. Similar to the Food Bank here in Miles City. The pantry has a variety of ready made meals, snacks, frozen meats, soups, toiletries, socks, and underwear. just about everything you can find in a grocery store. This program is funded 100% by donations by our community. There is an endless amount of appreciation by the students who use the pantry.
address: 20 S. Center St. Miles City, 59301 phone: (406) 234-4920
November: Salvation Army of Miles City
The Salvation Army of Miles City helps to support residents of Miles City and immediate residents of Custer County, as well as some transient people. The SA helps with rent (once a year – residents only), utilities, fuel for transportation, hotel vouchers, and food vouchers. Some of these services are even administered by our local Southeastern Montana Dispatch Team.​ Additionally, the Salvation Army of Miles City has a day they take local school children – who qualify for the reduced lunch program – Christmas shopping. This special Children’s Christmas Shopping Day is usually on a Saturday morning in December.
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Ways you can participate:
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make your donation by check to "the Salvation Army of Miles City" to ensure all money remains local.
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volunteer to be a bell ringer during the holiday season
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volunteer to help with the Christmas Shopping event for children in our community
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offer to serve on the board of directors
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Let Pastor Jamie know and she will connect you with them!
January:
Miles City
Soup Kitchen
The Miles City Soup Kitchen serves nutritious meals Monday - Friday and serves food from 11AM - 12:30PM, except holidays. The kitchen is located in the dining room of the First United Methodist Church (FUMC) here in downtown Miles City! FUMC is just across the street and through the parking lot from First Presbyterian Church. The mission of the soup kitchen is: "to provide healthy and appetizing meals to all in this community who come to us in need - the poor, the hungry, the lonely" without reference to age, race, sex, or religious affiliation. The soup kitchen doesn't serve meals, it serves Jesus.
Community Support is what keeps the soup kitchen open. Meals are provided at no cost, but donations help keep the doors open and are always appreciated. ​
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Come over for a meal!
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Give of your time to help in the kitchen with food preparations OR with food service!
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Share your extra farm goods or garden produce!
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Give a monetary donation!
You can help make a difference!
To learn more, you are invited to visit the Miles City Soup Kitchen Facebook Page. Just click here.
February:
The Way Home MT
The Way Home MT creates a gateway for sustainable housing, old-fashioned hospitality, and a healthy lifestyle through faith-based ministry to build a strong foundation for individuals, families and the community. Together, this ministry offers:
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Transitional and Long-term Housing
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Resource Connections
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Mind, Body and Spiritual Health
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Mentorship and Relationship Care
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Personal Development
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Commitment to Serve
You can help make a difference!
To learn more, you are invited to visit The Way Home MT. Just click here.
March:
One Great Hour of Sharing
The One Great Hour of Sharing is a special offering of the PC (U.S.A). During the Season of Lent (Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday), many churches, if not the majority of churches, throughout the PCUSA participate in the OGHS. From the PCUSA website: (https://pcusa.org/special-offerings/one-great-hour-sharing) ...
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Around the world, millions of people lack access to sustainable food sources, clean water, sanitation, education, and opportunity. The work done in support of the causes supported by One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) — disaster, hunger, poverty, climate change, and immigration/migration and refugees —serves individuals and communities in need. This work provides people with safety, sustenance, and hope.
Received during the season of Lent (Feb. 18–April 5), each gift to OGHS helps to improve the lives of people in these challenging situations. The Offering provides us a way to share God’s love with our neighbors in need. In fact, OGHS is the single, largest way Presbyterians come together every year to work for a better world.
Thank you for promoting and supporting One Great Hour of Sharing, an Offering that responds directly to the call to do justice in Micah 6:8. IF WE ALL DO A LITTLE, IT ADDS UP TO A LOT!
April:
Custer Network Against Domestic Abuse (CNADA)
CNADA, the Custer Network Against Domestic Abuse & Sexual Assault, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking across southeastern Montana. Founded in 1996. CNADA provides free and confidential services to individuals and families in Carter, Custer, Fallon, Garfield, Powder River, Rosebud, and Treasure counties. We are deeply rooted in Montana’s rural communities—places where neighbors know each other by name, where resilience is a way of life, and where access to safety and support can be miles away.
CNADA bridges that distance by offering trauma-informed advocacy, emergency shelter, legal and medical advocacy, crisis intervention, outreach education, and safety planning. We work side by side with law enforcement, courts, schools, and local partners to build safer, stronger communities where survivors are believed, supported, and empowered.
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Crisis Phone:(406) 951-0475
Phone: (406) 234-0542
2200 Boxelder Street Ste. 135, Miles City, MT 59301
Email: cnada@midrivers.com
May:
Local Mission Assistance Fund
The Local Mission Fund
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Though the primary means of help in our community are our local Salvation Army or the St. Vincent De Paul store, First Presbyterian Church has a local mission fund too. The purpose of this fund – according to its policy – is to help people with unexpected financial difficulties. This includes local Miles City residents and people who are passing through town. The fund is currently set up to help with groceries, gas, and a night’s stay in a motel. Additionally, rent and utilities might be an option. All needs are assessed on a case-by-case basis. The Mission Committee and the Session are currently exploring an update to this fund to better meet needs.
June:
The Gideons
Miles City Chapter
The Local Gideons
Gideons International is an evangelical association that equips and mobilizes Christian business men and professional men, along with their wives, to share God’s Word and win others for Jesus Christ.
The local Gideons participate in this ministry by giving out New Testament Bibles. You will find them outside schools, in jails, hospitals, hotels, nursing homes and colleges. 100% of every donation goes for printing and distribution of these Bibles.
To donate by check: The Gideons - PO Box 362,
Miles City, Montana 59301.
