Project Overview:
Even though you can find many typical American families here, you will also find that poverty, alcohol, and drugs have embedded themselves on every corner of the reservation. Families have been destroyed by addictions and abuse. Jesus really is the answer. You can bring the love and hope He offers to the people of Browning.

Meet a few people and you’ll soon discover that many grandmothers are raising a second generation of kids. Teens are having kids at early ages. The fathers seldom accept responsibility, and the young moms want to return to their youth and be carefree. Having backed themselves into a corner, young people often are susceptible to the enemy, who offers them suicide as a way out.

Our lodging partners, UMC Pastor Jody and Suellyn Campbell, provide a lot of encouragement and great quarters for our teams. Our Native ministry partners, Pastor Titus Upham of First Nations Embassy of Faith and Robert Bremner of Church on the Rock, pour life and hope into their community and Native congregations. They are light and salt. They are the Body of Christ as He intended it to be. It is our privilege to work alongside them, to learn from them, to encourage them, and to be encouraged.

Ministry Description:
Your initial outreach will be a Sunday night cookout for teens at one of the churches. You’ll walk neighborhoods to offer prayer for families and to meet new friends God has picked out for you. You will continually seek to touch the hearts of the Blackfeet people throughout this mission.

As you pour yourselves into relational ministry, much of it to teens, discipleship will be your main purpose. You’ll do fun things with new friends, activities planned to offer you opportunities to build meaningful relationships. You might host a swimming pool party, go putt-putt golfing, or hike in Glacier National Park. With the direction of our pastor partners, you’ll reach out to local believers who need encouragement or comfort, and others with whom you’ll share lives and your own struggles. Your team will learn and grow in the process.

Be prepared to host some very informal, small group Bible studies. Training topics for teen studies might include: basic Christianity, living with integrity, forgiveness and grace, and honor and respect for parents and those in authority. Prior to the mission, your team should develop short, concise lessons with practical illustrations, object lessons, and application to real life. Please make lessons interactive and include plenty of time for questions and discussions.

Relationships open doors of encouragement, effective prayer, and discipleship that will be well received and life changing. Building relationships and real friendships is critical. We want to bring teams who are genuinely interested in getting to know local believers, working with them in outreach and service, and sharing lives — teams that will work at it, no matter their prior experience.