Montana On A Mission

Homeward Bound 2023 was a great success. The statistics tell the story of the generosity of our community and volunteers. Our volunteers ranged in age between 2 and 92, completing a wide variety of projects. Cookies were baked, breakfast was prepared and served, concrete was poured, stone flower beds were constructed, ramps were repaired and repainted, windows were washed, yards were cleaned and literally tons of trash was taken to our transfer station. These are some of the projects completed by the organization in 2023. Montana*133 local projects were completed by more than 204 volunteers during our 9th year of Homeward Bound, comprising an estimated 1185 hours of volunteer service.*Partnered with other local businesses and nonprofits to provide time and funds for making holiday food baskets for 171 families in need.*Provided 35 backpacks and school supplies to students and teachers in need through our Backpack to School program. Philippines*The school lunch program provides the entire school with healthy lunches and employs five local women to manage the program and cook for the children.*The Family Christian Fellowship celebrated their 19th year with a Thanksgiving celebration for the entire community. The church completed a major renovation to replace the roof and make more room for the growing congregation.*Financially supported a local missionary monthly.*Montana on a Mission local Philippines manager conducts and oversees numerous Bible study groups and, at the request of the local government, instructs government employees in Biblical "moral values" classes. Kenya* New lunch program at Lower Oloosekin primary school, fed 75 students and their teachers a hot, nutritious lunch daily.*Built kitchen for the lunch program at Lower Oloosekin.*We continue to partner with the school to provide learning materials, textbooks, and playground equipment.* Installed our first water token kiosk. This technology allows community members to fetch water from the kiosk, paying a very small fee each month that goes into an account for the community. They will then have money for maintenance and repairs of the project as well as saving money for other community projects, such as schools!*We continue to manage and maintain 14 community water projects, training the communities to care for and perform routine borehole maintenance such as cleaning and flushing the storage tanks. And of course, there are always repairs of security fences, older troughs and tap stands, solar and electrical repairs, pump and pipe repairs or replacements.*More than 35,000 people now have access to clean water every day and 8 schools now have clean water onsite. We continue to survey additional communities that do not have access to clean water as well as clean and maintain the existing boreholes and protected spring water projects.*MOM continues to show the love of Jesus and to share the Gospel through Bible distribution; both written native language Bibles and audio native language Bibles, the Jesus Film, and digital resource distribution, as well as working with local churches. Romania and Ukraine* Provided funds to repair a community well that was drilled and funded by MOM in 2020.* Provided financial support to an organization assisting people in areas destroyed by bombing inside Ukraine.