Aquaculture Project Update

 Montana on a Mission = Aquaculture Project Report February 5th, 2010   Since 2004, Montana on a Mission has come along side of the people of Calunasan Sur and helped them with some of life’s basic needs: like drilling a well for fresh water or fixing a leaky roof or pouring a concrete floor instead [...]

Preparing for the trip

The kids are playing and all the bags are packed.  It is Monday and we are getting ready to leave to Billings to stay with Tom & Deb.  I have to say the excitment is building and I am ready to get started.  When I first decided to go on this trip, there wasn’t much [...]

Gifts of Grace

Christmas. The season of the year that is all about gifts and giving. Have you seen the extravagant commercial with the Lexus wrapped in a big red bow? Wouldn’t it be a fantastic experience to give that! (Or get that!). Such a gift would last perhaps ten years. A long time in today’s world. Sitting [...]

Learning Center

The Calunasan Sur Elementary School is attended by students from Calunasan Sur as well as elementary age students from the neighboring villages of Canlisid and Ugpong. Presently, there is no library or access to computer technology.  In 2007, the school erected a makeshift building from rusty corrugated metal sheeting and cardboard to house the preschoolers in [...]

Upcoming Mission Trip

Loving Your Neighbor in the Philippines One of the things that we have noticed after multiple trips the the Philippines is that loving acts of kindness go a long way toward helping people understand God’s love. Over the last several years we have participating in installing clean water systems, building homes for those in need, [...]

Fish Harvest

In January 2008, I arrived in the Philippines with big ideas on how “I” was going to help people raise fish.  As usual, God turned my arrogance into humility as he changed all my plans into his projects.  The best part of it all was seeing God at work.  Even though the way I thought [...]