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Waikiki
Beach Outreach Ministry
URGENT REQUEST FOR VOLUNTEERS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND FOOD.
CHURCHES, INDIVIDUALS, OR OUTREACH MINISTRIES REQUESTED TO
PROVIDE WARM MEAL FOR 100 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.
We also provide a Bible study and continental breakfast
seven days a week every morning.
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
Beretania regularly provides a nice meal on Wednesdays, the
goal is to provide the meals for the homeless the other six
days of the week.
We believe all citizens of the USA deserve a safe home to
abide. 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 have
begun to formulate the plan to provide homes for all
citizens and end homelessness in the USA.
The ministry needs affordable operating space within walking
distance from Waikiki Beach. If anyone can help provide an
operating facility 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 use. The pastor of the ministry has
been relying on God for all his needs the past 7 years.
OTHER CHURCHES OR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WHO WANT TO HELP
HOMELESS COULD ACT NOW.
Tikvat Yisrael Messianic Congregation and a few of its
members, and a few members of other churches, several
business owners, and a few others who see the miracles
happening are tithing regularly in order to provide up to
2400 or more meals each month. We are far short from enough
funding so the pastor doesn't have to use his pension, as he
has been doing for the past six and half years. It needs a
total of six churches or individuals to prepare one meal per
week or more to do it once a month. It cost about $100 per
day to feed the homeless in Waikiki the way the ministry has
been operating. We need an operating facility. Ohana West
presently allows us to use a 3x17 ft. storage space. The
pastor sleeps in an elderly housing project he was recently
approved for after applying many years ago for help; and
used to sleep in tool sheds, garages, carports, and floors
before that help came. The rent and utilities are more than
50% of his social security, and the rest he uses to buy food
for others, because he still gets insufficient donations and
recieves no salary from anyone. Can you help change this
situation?
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 300 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). In 2002 there were only 150
homeless then. 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 one thousand Bibles so
far. He has provided us with food for more than 110,000
meals (and thousands more drinks and snacks) to the homeless
on Waikiki Beach since July 4, 2003 to the end of August
2009. We served over 27,000 meals in the past 12 months
alone. 'About five thousand men had eaten' (Mat 14:21) by
May 2004. Now over 600 meals are served every week; We have
a cart with coolers of food and bags of bread and utensils.
We used to walk along the street and beach, feeding the poor
as we go every day, but now we have services 6 days a week
and Bible study and breakfast 7 days a week.
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 5 PM we provide a
picnic dinner and a message from God every Monday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, 6 PM on Tuesdays, and 9 AM to noon on
Sundays. Every Sunday, Bob and Pastor Rodney Shim now have
teamed up with Healing Waters Ministry, pastors Tuia and
Dottie, and have special church services under a tent by the
banyon tree by the Kapiolani Bandstand and Bus stop. We
provide a meal and fellowship there from 9:30 AM till 1 PM
or so. 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:
A. Financial support to buy food, carts, coolers, pots and
pans, paper plates, napkins, cups, forks and spoons, and
other expendables;
B. Join into a partnership with the ministry with a pledge
of $100 or more per month (at least enough for one day a
month);
C. Churches or individuals to cook and deliver a meal for
100 people once a week at the Queens Beach Snack Shop by the
Waikiki Aquarium at 5:45 PM any day (Call Bob at 497-6920 to
coordinate)
D. Food, including rice, pasta, mashed potatoe buds, cakes,
pies, pastries, pancake mix, beans, tomato sauce, spaghetti
and sauce, sweet rolls, sub sandwiches, sushi, bentos,
sandwiches, hamburger, hot dogs, Spam, lunch meats, fried
chicken, raw meats, fruit, sausage, pudding cups, snacks,
spices, condiments, bread, and other appropriate food items
(a steak dinner and ice cream would be a real treat since we
have never had it yet);
E. Hygiene products, toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap,
razors, clothes, daily labor, jobs;
F. Grant to purchase or use of a commercial facility to
store and cook food in or near Waikiki (we are storing the
wagons and food in a parking lot right now);
G. Volunteers, entertainers, cooks, musicians, persons with
a drivers license to pick up food as needed; and;
H. Whatever help you or your organization can donate,
including Bibles, computers, bicycles, MOTOR SCOOTER, office
supplies, cars, paper, copier, printing assistance, etc.
WE NEED NEW SPACE AND A NEW FACILITY, FOOD, FUNDS,
VOLUNTEERS, AND SUPPORTERS WHO DESIRE TO END HOMELESSNESS.
WHO WILL STEP UP AND SPONSOR US AFTER FIVE YEAR? HOW LONG DO
WE NEED TO BEG?
ARE THERE ANY CHURCHES THAT HAVE A KITCHEN THAT COULD
PROVIDE A WARM MEAL ONCE A WEEK FOR 100 SOULS OR MORE? AFTER
6 YEARS WE FINALLY FOUND ONE CHURCH 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? WHERE IS THE
BODY OF CHRIST WORKING TOGETHER?
Check out Deuteronomy 15, Leviticus 25, Isaiah 58, Matthew
25, and other scriptures tell us to help the poor, not to
fix up church buildings or add new space. What is your
church doing to help the poor outside your walls? We want to
work with you to respond to God's calling to all of us to
help the poor, cripple, widows, orphans, elderly, lame,
blind and less fortunate around us.
The ambassador to the Vatican suggested all leaders and
those who call themselves Christians should do four things:
- DO something to help the poor (See Deu 15:4)
- Pray for our leaders.
- Meet in small groups to develop fellowship and
intimacy accomplishing things together.
- Love God with all our heart, all our soul, and all our
strength.
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 and social
security since July 2003 and most of the funds still
come from his pension (about $500 to $1000 per month)
but needs more food and funds from others. Presently,
the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry is feeding 80 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 to 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 Heather, a student from Chaminade
University who had been providing 100 or more sandwiches
every Thursday since October 2007. Jenny from Japan
provided food in lunch bags every Sunday since December
2004 and then tithed for about a year, while the pastor,
Bob, distributed them. Are you willing to volunteer?
God has shown us that the ministry is also in need of an
office, food service facility, would like to apply for
501(c)(3) tax exempt status (needs $750 application
fee), now has ONE church, Tikvat Yisrael, is now
sponsoring the ministry but still cannot buy food from
the Food Bank yet, hope to apply for grants, and
register independently thereafter. We now have Tikvat
Yisrael Messianic Congregation 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 slepped sleeping on a floors for
years, allowing him to use his pension for food. Because
of the pastor's long suffering in living in tool sheds
and garages, 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. WE NEED AN OPERATING FACILITY
AND A STIPEND. Can you help? NOW, we need a new facility
and additional funding, and provide the founding pastor
an a salary (unless you believe someone should work for
no wages forever). The pastors 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 have 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. We also
have Earl Canada, the Baptism Coordinator, who focuses
on helping lead the homeless to know Jesus. We have
Maurice and Medrick who have been providing meals most
weeks for over a year, now. We have Lahua and Lori and
Darryl who volunteer serving many days of the week. Can
you help us?
Contact people:
Office fax number: www.boberb.org and
www.waikikibeachoutreach.com
Address:
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P.O.Box
88662, (NEEDS NEW OPERATING SPACE)
Honolulu, HI
96830
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a map)
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Web Site: http://www.DisciplesOfYehua.org
Directions:
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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. . .
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Nearest Metro/Subway Stop:
Kapahulu & Kalakaua,
Walk distance (in minutes): 2
Nearest Bus Stop: 2, 19, 42,
8, 2, 13, 58, 4, 2 minute walk |
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Waikiki
Beach Outreach Ministry
