Serve Billings
Community Resource Guide
A Message from Pastor Tyler about missions:
- People of Shiloh,
In 2020 we have been in Mission as much as ever to our community. I think it is important that we take a minute and share how we as a church have shared our resources. My hope is that by seeing this great work we might be inspired to reach out in the coming year. I share this information that you might let others know you are Methodist because your church gives back to the community to make it a better place in God’s love.
In 2020 we were able to be God’s hands and feet through:
• Angel Tree and Pantry Supply Drive providing pantry supplies to Tumbleweed and Independence Hall and sixty $20 gift cars for Tumbleweed, St. John’s United Memory Care, Autumn Springs and Independence Hall.
• Community Garden produced and donated hundreds of pounds of fresh produce to the food bank thanks to our church staff and volunteers.
• We supported Copper Ridge in building their playground by sending $500 to make sure kids in our neighborhoods have a place to play.
• With Darlene Newstrom’s leadership and along with Sandi Rogina and others we have made hundreds of masks for our church and for people in our community.
• We supported Family Promise through their Beach Blizzard Fundraiser and sent them $1000 to support their work. (Formerly known as Interfaith Hospitality Network)
• Food Bank support continued both financially and through donations our congregation shared. Thanks to Jerry Stanhope for the consistent delivery.
• Our United Methodist Free Store overcame the challenges of a pandemic to collect donations, and set up appointments to get household supplies to our guests. This year the SUMC mission team shared $600 to help support utilities for the Free Store. Thank you to Peg Parker for your dedication to help continue this vital work.
• We sent $1,000 and some additional gift cards to the RAD GRAD program at Senior High School to support homeless students with groceries and basic needs.
• Shiloh continued to offer soup mixes to the Free Store, and Liz Stanhope continued to get the supplies together. We are looking for places to share these mixes more in the future.
• Habitat for Humanity continued its vital work and we supported the ongoing Apostles build with $1,000 and $100 additional dollars to help cover lunches of two build days. Thanks to Matt Mettler for continuing this work.
• We sent $50 to support Bozeman UMC’s Mission Team project to send supplies to help cleanup after riots over racial inequality.
• Darlene Newstrom continues to do her incredible mitten ministry and we helped connect some of the mittens to Hope UMC who got them out in homeless kits this year.
• Pat Montgomery organized our Relay for Life team, sold daffodils and helped support this work.
• Due to the pandemic, the sandwich ministry could not meet, but instead we sent $100 a month to the organizations we made sandwiches for.
• We gathered school supplies for the United Way Operation Supply
• We took donations of sleeping bags to organizations that support homelessness.
• We gathered supplies for Flood Buckets for the United Methodist Committee on Relief
• With the cancelled Trunk or Treat we shared the supplies we had collected with St. Vincent Healthcare and Billings Clinic Emergency departments, Riverstone Health, Tumbleweed and Independence Hall.
• We repurposed our coffee supplies we stopped using in March to Independence Hall, who was in need to support their continued work.
• Our Christmas offering along with $500 from missions went to Intermountain (Chilren’s Home), learn more about this Methodist ministry at Intermountain.org.
Special thanks to Pam Dandrea and Susan Hathaway for the incredible leadership of Missions in this year, and to our Mission Team members for their work.God willing, we will continue to bless our community in the coming year. Thank you for helping us do this work.
Enthusiastic Peace,
Pastor Tyler
Shiloh Community Garden

The Free Store
2018 was a very busy year for the Free Store. 1,412 family visits happened, but even more amazing was that on seven different Saturdays, 70+ families visited. The only other time we had 70+ was in 2013 and that was only once. Even more telling is our average number served per Saturday was 53 in 2017 and 56 in 2018. This mission continues to make such a difference. However without your support of time and/or donations (goods or money) many in our community would be living with oot what the resources the Free Store provides. THANK YOU. Volunteer Director, Peg Parker.
Mitten Ministry
Sandwich Ministry

Billings Habitat for Humanity
Relay for Life
Shiloh UMC will sponsor a team for Relay for Life again this year. Pat Montgomery has agreed to be our new team leader. Our team has already begun to form and we would love to have you join us! Please contact Pat at her home (655-3507) or call Liz at the church office (656-0050) to sign up for this opportunity.