2024 Annual Report
2023 Annual Report
2022 Annual Report
2021 Annual Report
Financial Summary
Spending as a percentage of donations
Project spending
Donations
$222,269
Project Expenditures
$174,935
2020 Annual Report
2018 Annual Report
Financial Summary
Spending as a percentage of donations
Project spending
Donations
$240,358
Project Expenditures
$138,526
Future Projects
$101,832
What your gifts did in
Kenya
What your gifts did in
Philippines
2017 Annual Report
What your gifts did in
Kenya
What your gifts did in
Philippines
The past year has been busy and we want to share a few highlights with you:
The Ilturisho pipeline, troughs, taps and kiosk are finished! The two km. extension from the Ilturisho borehole is serving an additional 1000 people and countless livestock and wild animals as well as providing the Ilturisho Primary School with water right in the school yard! This allows students to use clean, safe water and prevents them from having to use valuable school time to walk and haul water back to the school.
Youth to Kenya 2017 group surpassed their fundraising goal, completed the “Helping Without Hurting” poverty alleviation study and spent two weeks of work and ministry in Kenya.
The Saaten school pipeline has been completed! This project includes a 10,000 L holding tank, two fetching points along the line and a mini kiosk at the Saaten Primary School. This provides clean water at the growing school for more than 120 students and local families.
Hygiene training and tippy taps were completed at the Saaten school during our YTK trip in June. We provided the students and teachers education on handwashing, bacteria, transmission of disease and handwashing stations and supplies for the school.
We look forward to future clean water development projects and have identified three large spring locations that we will investigate for possible projects in the next year; and three future borehole locations. Most of Kenya is suffering terribly from the extended drought in the region and many of the small springs the locals have historically relied upon have dried up.
In the Philippines, the school lunch program continues to grow each year. We currently feed 105 students a healthy lunch each school day and employ four local women to manage and cook for the children.
Two children, DG and Marife, were (and still are) supported for major medical interventions and chronic disease. Please pray for these kiddos and their families!
Four students were on post-secondary scholarships. Two graduated this year!
Mery Donald, Board Chairperson
12,000 People
now have access to clean drinking water for life for an average cost of about $11 per person.
Donating $35 per month for a year has the potential to provide clean water for 35 people for life!
Spending as a percentage of donations
Project spending
Donations
$125,200
Project Expenditures
$125,200
2016 Annual Report
What your generosity did in 2016
Financial Summary
Ministry is taking your God-given gifts and resources and serving people in Christ’s name
— Timothy Keller
Thanks so much for your incredible generosity and spirit of partnership! In November we were able to drill two new wells at Oiti and Eluai, communities that were in desperate need of water. The rain that is typically expected to begin falling near the end of October has not come yet. Most of the springs where families usually get their water have dried up and the women and children are forced to walk increased distances in search of water. The wells have just been test pumped and we received the reports that they are yielding great amounts of water. We are now in the process of getting bids to install the solar pumps and infrastructure. We hope to have the wells fully functional by February. I wish you could see the faces of the people and the gratitude they expressed when the drilling rig hit water!
Several new projects are in the works in Kenya, including a pipeline from the well at Ilturisho, drilled last March. We visited the site during our November trip and were amazed to see the number of people and the distances they are coming to get water there. Far more than we had estimated. The volume of water is more than enough for the current demand and can support at least another 1000 people. The plan is to run a pipeline about 1 ¾ miles that will gravity flow down to the main road and school (which currently doesn’t have water). There will be two points along the pipeline where there will be a tap and a trough for livestock.
Other projects in the planning and fundraising stages are:
~Developing a very productive spring at Nkineje, piping the water to a church and several other fetching and livestock watering points.
~Installing a 1 kilometer pipeline from an existing line to a school.
~ drilling two more wells in very dry areas that have been visited and identified.
In the Philippines more students were added to the school lunch program to bring the total to 93 children who are enjoying a nutritious lunch every day at school. The lunches are planned and prepared by 4 local ladies who are happily employed by MOM in an area where unemployment is as high as 20%.
MOM also continues to support four university students who are on-track to graduate in 2018.
The local Family Christian Fellowship continues to thrive and celebrated 12 years in ministry this year.
Once again, thank you so much for ministering with Montana on a Mission by sharing your blessings and the love of Christ with the world! None of this would be possible without the contributions of each one of you.
Mery Donald, Board Chairperson
2015 Annual Report
What your generosity did in 2015
Expenses
Financial Summary
- Checkbook
January 1st, 2015$ 36,700 - Donations$ 199,767
- Expenditures$ 105,601
Administrative $ 2,362 Fundraising $ 6,204 Communications $ 3,082 Philippines $ 24,244 Africa $ 66,199 Homeward Bound $ 3,510 - Checkbook September 15, 2016$ 130,866
Wow, what a year it’s been! As I gather stories, photos and video clips for this publication it amazes me all over again what God will do when we say yes!
Whether your “yes” was to partner with us in prayer, making a financial contribution, volunteering your time and talents or helping us spread the word about this ministry, we thank you! A million times over – THANK YOU! As you will read on the following pages, literally thousands of lives have been touched or transformed through our teamwork.
More than 4,000 people now have access to clean water for the very first time, 300 families were trained in health and hygiene, 8 students received scholarships for college and technical training, 42 students received a healthy lunch every day at school, badly needed supplies were provided to teachers in the Philippines, 30 Sweet Grass county families were helped with completing projects during Homeward Bound, 26 Big Timber students received backpacks and school supplies, life-saving medical care has been provided and thousands of people received love, in Jesus’ name!
And that is the key – LOVE. Paul instructs in 1 Corinthinans 16:14 “Do everything in love.” Jesus reminds His disciples, “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:35) Whether we are serving our families, our community or our world, when we serve motivated by the Love we first received from Him we can truly make a difference, for the moment and for eternity.
Is it always easy to love? No! But it is what we have been commanded and it must be our response.
-Mery Donald, Montana on a Mission Board Chair
2014 Annual Report
A few months ago my term as chairman of Montana on a Mission came to an end. I have cherished those people that I have come in contact with; from the board members that I have served alongside to donors who have so graciously contributed to the programs that MOM has sponsored but perhaps most of all, those who we have had the privilege of serving during my tenure.
My time with MOM has brought about changes to the way I live and the way I think about people outside my own economic strata. Along the trail, I have met some amazing individuals and communities who have enriched my life incredibly. For example, I realize that the amount of faith required to live hand-tomouth, without 401K’s, without savings accounts, even without knowing where tomorrow’s food will come from, makes my faith appear as a wisp of smoke.
I am reading a book commissioned by the World Bank in 2000. The book “Voices of the Poor,” is revolutionary in that it is the first of its kind to interview, on a wide scale, people who are materially poor. The authors interviewed more than 60,000 people from Ukraine to Africa, from South America to Asia. Although many studies have been implemented quantifying the
economic and political statistics of poverty, few have investigated the psychological stress and emotional anxiety that the poor experience.
A general theme emerged from the interviews that is best expressed by a poor woman in Moldova in Eastern Europe who made this statement: “Poverty is pain; it feels like a disease. It attacks a person not only materially but also morally. It eats away one’s dignity and drives one into total despair.”
Poverty alleviation efforts often focus on the deficiencies of assets and income of poor people. Subsequently, remediation of such deficits involves the giving of funds and materials to those in need: acts of charity. However, acts of charity, if practiced without recognizing that the recipient’s self-worth is already compromised is likely to further violate their dignity; Charity becomes toxic.
To say that we have not made mistakes in this area would be less than honest. However, one of the things that I find most encouraging about Montana on a Mission is that, rather than acting on impulse, we are becoming more adept at listening to the “voices of the poor.”
I pray that we continue to listen.
Tom Lutke
Poverty is pain; it feels like a disease. It attacks a person not only materially but also morally. It eats away one’s dignity and drives one into total despair
— Voices of the Poor
What your generosity did in 2014
In the Philippines:
$28,322
Provided shelter & homes for 104 families after the earthquake
$8,351
Provided college or trade education for 15 secondary scholars
$5,700
Provided wheelchairs, hearing aids, medical attention and more under “compassion,” Leyte Church assistance & mission support
$4,500
Fed 40 malnourished children a healthy lunch every school day
$1,000
Purchased toothpaste, toothbrushes, bandages and other basic medical supplies for the November 2014 health clinic
In India:
$4,572
Madurai pastor support, provides a small stipend per month and professional growth for around 40 pastors.
$1,949
Madurai orphanage support
Donations Received:
$75,815
Office expenses:
$1,731
Wire transfer fees, tax fees, credit card fees, advertising & shipping expenses
Montana on a Mission has developed several educational initiatives, focused on giving young people the power of knowledge, skills and empowerment that will engage them back in their communities so they may work toward the betterment of the lives of themselves and those around them. This value has been shown over and over again in the success stories of these remarkable young people.
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Students currently enrolled in higher education through generous MOM supporters
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