Mission Priorities of Yellowstone Conference

   The Blackfeet United Methodist Parish (BUMP) serves the people who live on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The majority of the present day residents living on the Blackfeet Reservation are bloodline descendants of the original indigenous inhabitants of this area.
    Since 1882 the United Methodist Church has had a continuous presence on the Blackfeet Reservation.  The participants in the ministry and programs of the Blackfeet United Methodist Parish reflect the cultural and racial diversity of the larger community. 

Our Vision

• · To strengthen the current ministries of the Blackfeet United Methodist Parish by increasing the mutual support and cooperation between the Browning UMC, Babb UMC and the Heart Butte Fellowship.
• · To strengthen and extend our relationship with the connectional system of the United Methodist Church; especially with the Yellowstone Annual Conference, the General Board of Global Ministry and the United Methodist Women.
• · To focus on children's programs and mission outreach as the highest priority for the Blackfeet United Methodist Parish.

CONTACT:

Pastor Jim & Larisa Barth                                               Phone:  406-338-3900
Blackfeet United Methodist Parish                                  Email:  Jim Barth:  jbarth@bumpmission.com
124 Highway 89                                                                                  Larissa Barth:   lbarth@bumpmission.com
P.O. Box 3007
Browning, MT 59417

                 East Angola Pastors Support Project

Yellowstone Conference has partnered with the East Angola Methodist Church since 2004. Before the war there 
were over 200 Methodist Churches – in 2000 there were only 30. Some districts had only 1 or 2 churches. 

Angolans have been rebuilding their churches, sometimes one row of bricks at a time. Most pastors in East Angola 
are not paid a salary by their congregation but are paid ‘in kind’ – eggs, cassava, sweet potatoes, a chicken or rabbit. 
The East Angola Conference covers the poorest areas of Angola. Most of the churches are small and in rural villages.

We in Yellowstone Conference want to support our brothers and sisters in Christ as they rebuild their churches 
and ministries. We do that by supporting 54 pastors in 3 districts and 1 area of evangelization (in a remote part of 
the country). Each pastor receives $40 a month in salary, and we pay Alcides Martins a stipend as well to administer 
the project.  

Global Ministries supports us in this effort. All money to the pastors is sent through Global Ministries and is subject 
to audits by GBGM, on-site visits, and yearly reports.

Contributions should be sent to Yellowstone Conference Office. Checks should be made out to Yellowstone Conference and memo line: Angola Pastors.

Contact Sally McConnell with questions or for more information.
sbmcconnell06@gmail.com

                                  Intermountain 

Intermountain is a nationally recognized Montana non-profit specializing in nurturing, therapeutic environments for 
children under severe emotional distress. They integrate relationship-based treatment and sound clinical discipline 
to assure a permanent family for every child. 

At Intermountain, through clinically sound treatment and safe nurturing relationships, they achieve effective and 
enduring outcomes for children and families. Because their staff’s deep, healing relationships with children are 
essential to the continued effectiveness of our model, they diligently recruit and retain the best and brightest professionals. Longevity of both leadership and direct care staff is hallmark of Intermountain. 

Children who come to Intermountain have a long history of extreme emotional and behavioral responses. The 
families of these children have not been able to regulate their emotional responses by any conventional means and 
the families feel increasingly trapped and overwhelmed by the child. 

At Intermountain, they treat children and families, not diagnoses and although they use attachment principles 
in their treatment, they provide a more holistic treatment than just attachment.

Yellowstone Conference has a long relationship with Intermountain, going back to the days of Brother Van.

Contact Intermountain:  500 South Lamborn,  Helena  MT  59601                 Telephone:  406-442-7920   or   800-200-9112

                                           Missionaries

Yellowstone Conference churches can support the work of missionaries around the world through
Covenant Relationships through The Advance. 

Helen Sheperd is a missionary in Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia. She established a mission center
and now is Director of Grace Hospice. Advance #11810Z

Yema Luhahi serves in Maua, Kenya. She teaches at the Maua Methodist Hospital School of Nursing.
Advance # 11943Z

Sally Wisner-Ott serves as a Church and Community Worker in Lancaster, PA. She works with LUMINA
coordinating Christian Education with children and nutrition education.
Advance #982966

Sally McConnell

Missions Coordinator for Yellowstone Conference

sbmcconnell06@gmail.com