GET INVOLVED

Become a Delta Dental Clinic Volunteer

Each year Together for Hope, High Plains invites Dentists to help staff the Ronald McDonald, Delta Dental Mobil Dental Clinic.  This mobile unit provides dental care to many children who have never seen a dentist.  The mobile unit services  the Cheyenne River , Crow Creek, and Rosebud Reservations.   Contact Jeff Langford at CBF of Missouri to volunteer; jeff@cbfmo.org  816-415-0009; 101 N. Clayview Dr. , Suite D, Liberty , MO 64068 .

Jeff can provide full details regarding temporary licensure, application materials, and etc.

Second Annual School Supplies Collection 

To read an article about this project, click here.

Raise Funds for Homeless Shelter Crow Creek Reservation

Crow Creek tribal workers recently discovered that some of their people are homeless. 

Christmas 2007, Together for Hope High Plains donated ten cots to the Crow Creek Tribe for the shelter.  Before the cots arrived, however, the tribe lost use of the building that was to house the shelter.   We want to help them put up another shelter.

Lisa, a tribal worker, said, “I recently got permission to raise funds in the tribes name to purchase a double wide garage building from Menards.  If I can find six groups who will contribute $500 matching gifts I can purchase the building.  This will only buy the materials but if we can get the materials, everything else will fall in place.  We have Dakota men who can do the electrical work and Diamond Willow Ministries has workers to put the building up.”

Together for Hope High Plains has pledged the first $500!  We need someone now to match our contribution.  We also want to challenge other persons or groups to make  $500 gifts then find challenge persons or groups to match their donations.

Send your gift (or pledge) to us, designated Crow Creek Shelter Fund and we will forward it to the Crow Creek Tribe.  Make checks to CBF of Missouri and they will be tax deductible.  MAKE SURE TO DESIGNATE GIFTS AND PLEDGES TO CROW CREEK SHELTER FUND.

Participate In an Indian Reservation Mission Project

We need mission groups to do work on each of the Together for Hope High Plains Indian Reservations.    TFH is committed to four South Dakota reservations, Crow Creek, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Cheyenne River .   The needs are great and varied on each reservation. 

Developing relationships, in the Spirit of Christ, is the greatest need.  Children and youth need help developing more workable social skills.   Many homes have maintenance and repair needs we can help with.  All this has the goal of being the presence of Christ as we strive to meet specific needs.   

Note:  Lisa said, “I plan to name the shelter, “The Birds Nest,” in memory and honor of Chief Bill Bird” who is recently deceased.”   This will also recognize that the tribe is providing a nesting place for its homeless people.

Help Build Powwow Grounds

The village of Red Scaffold , Cheyenne River Reservation, has asked us to move and rebuild their Powwow grounds. The Bureau of Indian Affairs recently built a new bridge which encroached on their present grounds.  Cornerstone Baptist Church , Lees Summit, Missouri, has taken the lead in rebuilding the grounds, but the project is too big for them to complete alone. 

Projected cost of rebuilding the grounds is $10,000.   We need churches to raise funds to help Cornerstone with the project.  We also need a series of church mission groups to work consecutive weeks during the summer of 2007 to construct the grounds.   Groups will need to coordinate their work with Cornerstone.  Contact us if you can help.

Note:  Most Lakota or Dakota American Indian Villages have Powwow grounds.  These are used for annual or more frequent tribal gatherings.   These gatherings are similar to family reunions in other cultures, although more ceremonial, sacred and elaborate than most other reunions.

Contribute Chain Saws

Heating their homes is a significant concern of people living on the South Dakota Reservations.  Many people heat their homes with wood.  Upward of 60% of the residents live below the national poverty level and often have trouble obtaining wood for their stoves.  

First Baptist Church of Hamilton, Missouri donated six chain saws for some of the men in and around the Village of Cherry Creek, Cheyenne River Reservation, to use to cut their own wood.  Many other people, throughout all four reservations, will use chain saws (and/or wood splitters) if we can provide them.  We can use either new or used chain saws, so long as they are in good condition. 

Help Build a Playground

Tribal leaders of Crow Creek envision a playground at their boys and girls club.  You might help to make their dream come true!  Dream fulfillment may need to come in several stages, perhaps even over a span of two or three years.  Or, several mission groups might band together and work consecutively over the span of a few weeks to build the playground in a single summer.

This could be a challenge for a bold faith adventure!  Why not make a leap of faith and find out what God might do through you and your mission group, either as participants or as leaders in this mission challenge? 

A completed playground would be a continuing witness to the presence of Christ among children and families of the Reservation.   It could also be exciting to see the kinds of witnessing experiences God might send your way as you interact with these Dakota people while building t he playground.  (Interaction will increase if you can provide the tribe with funds to hire one or two Dakota natives to work with your group).