TEMPORARY HOME FOR THE CLOTHING BANK

First Baptist Church - West Yellowstone, Montana

Pictured above is the First Baptist Church.  This has now become the "temporary" home for the local clothing bank here in town.  Plans are to keep the clothing bank at the church until April 1, 2014.  After that - we do not know what will happen with it.

When the new town offices were ready to be occupied, the city fathers decided not to move the clothing from the existing Social Services offices to the new city office building.  This leaves a lot of our local population with no place to get winter clothing for their children and themselves.  There is no charge for any of the clothing.  It is all free to whomever.

The church decided to try to make room for it in our building and we have done so successfully.  It is a bit crowded but we are going to do this.  We feel that this is a ministry that our town needs and that we are being led in that direction.

The clothing bank, unfortunately, will not be open every day because we do not have the personnel at the church to staff it every day.  The hours are Monday 1:00 - 4:00 and Thursday 4:00 - 7:00.  However, the folks at Social Services do have a key in case of an emergency situation.  We are going to see how it goes and then determine if we need to either change or expand the hours.  Unfortunately, with winter coming on and our seasonal people leaving - that leaves about 6 to 12 of us locals to deal with the staffing.

We did manage to secure a small grant from the West Yellowstone Foundation to help with the financial end of it.  We are going ahead full steam and trusting that God will provide.