For the second year in a row the mission team from First Assembly of God Church, from Loris South Carolina came to Montana to help with Native Ministries. Ten men came with Pastor Steven Shinn to help with the building project. All of the men had skills that made the work easy and fun.
The project this year was replacing the roof on the parsonage and on a section of the church, metal roofing put-on in place of the asphalt shingles. A team from Baltimore, Maryland replaced the roof on the main part of the church with metal four years ago. The team flew into Kalispell on three different flits. They said the worst leg of the flit was from Seattle to Kalispell. The plane was small and bounced around a lot coming over the mountains. Then it was off to eat at Famous Dave’s to eat ribs, and we ate a lot of them. The next leg of the trip was to travel half way across Montana to Lodgepole on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The trip takes about 7 hours in good condition and that wasn’t the case that night. The wind was blowing hard and the van and trailer was moving around a lot. One of the team members was praying, the tumbleweeds were not tumbling they were flying. It was an interesting night.
The next day the wind was still blowing which made it interesting working on the roof. All of the asphalt shingles had to come off make some repairs to the sheeting, put on ice &water shield, felt, and then the metal. Sounds easy but with the wind it made it dangerous. With God’s help, the metal was put-on without anyone getting hurt. There were repairs made to the floor in the church, and a new outside door added and a handicap ramp built. A lot of work was done in four days, some of the reason was the skill of the team. However, the biggest reason was the time spent each morning in devotions and prayer. God honors that dedication to him and to his service.
After the work was finished, we had a free day as it’s called to explore and see the sites. We went into Glacier Park, had a snowball fight, seen some goats and sheep, eat buffalo burgers, and just had a great time.I so enjoy working with this team, I hope they can come back again. Thank you guys.
