CHURCHES OR OUTREACH MINISTRIES REQUESTED TO PROVIDE WARM MEAL FOR 80 HOMELESS IN WAIKIKI ONCE A WEEK (EVEN ONCE A MONTH) EVERY DAY EXCEPT WEDNESDAYS.

The Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry is a ministry dedicated to providing food and ministry for the homeless who live or work on the streets in Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, to let them know that God will help them with all their needs.

Our mission also includes a desire to provide Bibles, prayer, fellowship, and Good Words that might be the voice of the Lord who may touch their lives. Since only one group of believers (H-5) from the First Methodist Church on Beratania regularly provides a nice meal on Wednesdays, the goal is to provide the meals for the homeless the other six days of the week.

Additional scope includes influencing others to recognize the civil rights of the homeless and to ensure all men, including the homeless, are treated equal according to the federal constitution. We will pursue all avenues to help the homeless in Waikiki to obtain food, drink, clothes, housing, jobs, medical care, and legal assistance. We are beginning to formulate the Congress to Eliminate Homelessness in the USA.

The ministry had lost its lease on the apartment it was operating out of and needs affordable operating space within walking distance from Waikiki Beach. The ministry has re-energized its operation while the pastor is sleeping on a couch at a friend's condo. If anyone can help provide an operating facility or housing for the pastor, or an owner is willing to donate some kind of space, please call 808-497-6920. It will need a commercial space that has a kitchen, or use of a church, or a house the pastor could share with roommates for at least 6 months, since the ministry, or the pastor, cannot afford more than $750 per month at this time. The pastor of the ministry has been relying on God for all his needs the past 4 year.

OTHER CHURCHES OR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WHO WANT TO HELP HOMELESS COULD ACT NOW.

Tikvat Yisrael Church and a few of its members, a few members of Waikiki Beach Chaplaincy and Hope Chapel South Shore, several business owners, and a few others who see the miracles happening are tithing regularly in order to provide up to 2600 or more meals each month. We are far short from enough finding and we need more funds so the pastor doesn't have to use his pension, as he has been doing for the past four years. It needs 5 more churches to prepare one meal per week. It cost about $100 per day to feed the homeless in Waikiki the way the ministry has been operating.

See www.waikikibeachoutreach.com and
www.DisciplesOfYeshua.org for more pictures and information.

Description:
Desiring to be disciples of Christ Jesus, God has led us to establish the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry to feed and minister to over 250 homeless and about 50 others who are very poor and hungry from Queen Kapiolani Beach Park (near the Natatorium) to Ala Moana Blvd and Ala Wai Canal (inclusive of all of Waikiki). God has shown us that the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry will distribute food to the homeless six or seven days a week as resources become available.

God has led us to distribute over 400 hundred Bibles so far. He has provided us with food for over 45,000 meals (and thousands more drinks and snacks) to the homeless on Waikiki Beach since July 4, 2003 until the end of 2006. 'About five thousand men had eaten' (Mat 14:21) by May 2004. Over 600 meals are served every week; We have a cart with coolers of food and bags of bread and utensils. We walk along the street and beach, feeding the poor as we go.

Today, we have Bible study and breakfast every day of the week near the snack bar at Queen's Beach near the Waikiki Aquarium at 8:30 AM. In the evenings, at 6 PM we provide a picnic dinner and a message from God every day except Wednesday and Thursday. Thusday we still pull the cart to see over 200 homeless citizens. Most of the homeless and hungry know us and many invite us to share some good news and fellowship, intercessory prayer, a Bible, or desire some assistance to get off the beach. They know we are committed to help them in any way we can. Are you moved to help the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry with your time and resources?

We are in need of:

1. Financial support to buy food, a golf cart oracushman, carts, coolers, pots and pans, paper plates, napkins, cups, forks and spoons, and other expendables; a pledge of $100 per month;

1. Churches to cook and deliver a meal for 80 people once a week at the Queens Beach Snack Shop by Waikicoordinateki Aquarium at 5 PM any day (Call Bob at 497-6920 to )

1. Food, including rice, pancake mix, beans, tomato sauce, spaghetti and sauce, sweet rolls, sub sandwiches, sushi, bentos, sandwiches, hamburger, hot dogs, Spam, lunch meats, fruit, sausage, pudding cups, snacks, spices, condiments, bread, and other appropriate food items;

1. Hygiene products, toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap, razors, clothes, daily labor, jobs;

1. Grant to purchase or use of a commercial facility to store and cook food in or near Waikiki (the founding pastor is sleeping on a friend’s couch and is also in need of an apartment);

1. Volunteers, entertainers, cooks, persons with a van or car to pick up food as needed; and

1. Whatever help you or your organization can donate, including Bibles, computers, bicycles, scooters, office supplies, vans or cars, paper, copier, printing assistance, etc.

WE NEED NEW SPACE AND A NEW FACILITY, FOOD, FUNDS, VOLUNTEERS, AND SUPPORTERS WHO DESIRE TO END HOMELESSNESS.

ARE THERE ANY CHURCHES THAT HAVE A KITCHEN THAT COULD PROVIDE A WARM MEAL ONCE A WEEK FOR 80 SOULS OR MORE? AFTER ALMOST 4 YEARS WE FINALLY FOUND ONE CHURCH OVER 10 MILES AWAY THAT DOES THIS ONCE A WEEK, WILL YOUR CHURCH CONSIDER IT? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP THE POOR AS JESUS INSTRUCTED US TO DO?

History:
Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry was initiated as a committee under The Body of Christ Jesus Fellowship July 4, 2003, when food was first distributed. As the outreach and food supply grew, the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry became independent and was registered in Hawaii as a Domestic Non-Profit Corporation on March 1, 2004 by Robert E. Erb, Jr. under Chapter 414D-32, Hawaii Revised Statues. It's objective is to feed and minister to the homeless in Waikiki Beach six days a week. The original funding has been derived from what God has provided Bob Erb through his pension since July 2003 and most of the funds still come from his pension (about $1000 per month) but needs more food and funds from others. Presently, the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry is feeding 60 to 160 people six times a week as God dropped more food to the ministry. The outreach is growing and needs additional volunteers. We Need other churches, outreaches, organizations and individuals also assist with providing food on a regular basis. God had dropped food supplies that exceed the hours of the volunteers available. One example of a volunteer was Jenny who had been providing 120 sandwiches every Sunday since December 2004 and now tithes, while the pastor, Bob, distributes them. Are you willing to volunteer?

God has shown us that the ministry is also in need of an office, food service facility, is applying for 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, now has a church, Ekalekia Ka Hale Hono O Ke Akua Church with C. Center Ministry, is now sponsoring the ministry so it can buy food from the Food Bank, hope to apply for grants, and register independently thereafter. We now have Tikvat Yisrael Church that is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt church that can also accept contributions for this ministry if that status is improtant. The ministry has no operating facility, the food is being stored at many locations, the wagons are being stored in a parking garage, and the pastor is sleeping on a supporter's couch, allowing him to use his pension for food. Because of the pastor's long suffering in living in tool sheds and garages (now a couch), his consistancy in providing these services to the poor need to be regcognized by others and others need to come to help him. A worker is due his wages, but he is paying for the job. Can you help? NOW, we need a new facility and additional funding to buy food, have an operating facility, and provide the founding pastor a residential facility (and maybe even a salary, unless you believe someone should work for no wages forever). The pastor and all helpers are not asking for any wages at this time. The pastor is paying for all administration costs out of the pension God has given him and 100% of all donations has been used to purchase food. Are you willing to assist in some small way?

Rodney Shim, an ordained pastor from other churches (and registered to preform marriages), has joined this ministry at the end of 2006 and has been elected to be the evangelist and a director for this ministry. He presently has a part time job as a counselor, and his heart desires to be in the ministry full time. Can you help us?

Contact people:

Bob Erb, Founder, Pastor, (808) 497-6920, (email this person) Cheri Tuller, Public Relations Manager, (808) 922-0144, (email this person) Daniel Klurstein, Tikvat Yisrael Rabbi, (808) 236-0440, (email this person)

Address:

P.O.Box 88662, (NEEDS NEW OPERATING SPACE) Honolulu, HI 96830

Directions:

Any check donations and contributions should be made out to Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry and sent to the P.O.Box. 88662, Honolulu, HI 96830. PLEASE HELP THE HOMELESS BY FINDING ADDITIONAL SPACE THE MINISTRY COULD USE. We are also. . . (more)   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Ena & Kalakaua,   Walk distance (in minutes): 2   Nearest Bus Stop: 2, 19, 42, 8, 2, 13, 58, 4, 2 minute walk