Dan Steinbeck

BIG TIMBER, Mont. – A six-man team from the Thousand Hills Baptist Network spent a week in Montana in May. According to Larry Gibson, director of Missions of the Network (formerly Association), said the team left May 2 and returned May 9. They worked on a new mission project called Sweet Grass Mission, named after the county.It has only been meeting on Sundays for a few months and will be a place summer missionaries can use while serving other Montana churches.

LEWISTOWN – Cathy Kelso, pianist and worship leader of First Baptist Church, Lewistown, was trying to pull together a community choir, and women from four churches in the Mt. Salem/Wyaconda Southern Baptist Association volunteered to participate in the choir. But Kelso had a problem. “We needed men,” she said. Thankfully, God provided for this need through one of Kelso’s old friends. “I’ve known Daniel Bock for years, and we’ve ministered together since his teens,” Kelso said.

PLATTSBURG – A husband and wife team from First Baptist, Plattsburg, has continued a puppet ministry started years ago by other church members. Aaron Gudde, Plattsburg’s youth pastor and his wife, Megan, offer the puppets for children in the Gospel Kids Wednesday night groups. More than 50 kids usually attend. Gudde recalls when puppets were used in previous years in the church, in the ministry started by Don and Dottie Davis, who have since retired. Gudde vowed to continue the ministry.