Thanksgiving Day 2008

: Courtney & Niah

: Safe Harbor Volunteers

: Pstr. Jerry & JoAnn (Vet)

: Jayna

: Paul (Light of the World)

: Waipio Baptist

: Safe Harbor

: Waipio Baptist Volunteers

: Richard (Light of the World)

Dear Friends & Supporters,

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Thanks to your support and financial donations, we’ve had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day Celebration at the U.S. Veteran’s Initiative at Kalaeloa. Three sister churches, Light of the World Christian Fellowship, Safe Harbor Ministries, and Waipio Baptist Community Church including Gary & Risa’s gracious neighbors, (Rollie & Janet) and (Kimo & Carleen) provided food for this year’s outdoor event. There were over 200+ men, women and keikis, as volunteers served delicious entrees with more than 17+ turkeys, 2-large smoked hams, 1-whole roasted pig, mash potatoes, stuffing, gravy, salads and various pumpkin desserts. The Prodigal Praise Band (Randy, Paul, Richard, Kimo and Hank) provided live praise and worship music.

The U.S. Veteran’s leadership, Darryl Vincent (Director), Dana Deans (New Clinical Supervisor), and Jackie Taylor (VIP Case Manager) were pleased with the success and organization of this year’s event. We were also asked to see if we would be interested in continuing our outreach ministries on Tuesdays again, except it will be in the main compound where the VIP and main offices are located, instead of the distant building across the field. Praise the Lord!

The feedback from many veterans and families from nearby transitional shelters all gave positive comments and words of appreciation with the quality of the food, meal preparation, fellowship, and live entertainment. Even the volunteers, some which was their first experience in serving at an outreach were surprised at the unity and organization and plan to come back to help again.

Waipio Community Baptist did a wonderful job of recording/editing the event. Here is a HD/DVD Presentation on the event – I’ll hope you’ll enjoy as much as we did! Please click on the link:

Thanksgiving Kalaeloa

“Because Of Your Love”

“To Every Generation”

“Your Grace Still Amazes Me”

“World On Fire”

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About Us

Light of the World Christian Fellowship strives to live out God’s grace by supporting our communities with life sustaining, outreach ministries. As we grew deeper with a greater understanding of God’s grace, we made a decision in 2003, to start an outreach ministry on West Oahu (Kalaeloa). It was a ministry to share the love of God to everyone regardless of race, color, creed, ethnicity, gender or social class, including special care for men and women in drug rehab and alcohol recovery programs, and even those released from incarceration.

Our mission is to share the love of Jesus in real and tangible ways such as volunteering in community service projects to feed the poor, hungry, homeless, marginalized, lost and hurting people who have lost all hope. Our faith compels us to live out the gospel by reaching out to prodigal sons and daughters who have been ostracized and rejected by communities and sometimes by their own families.

Like the Story of the Prodigal Son, we’ve found men and women and even entire families living lives of desperation, loneliness, isolation, poverty and destitution – who needed help but didn’t know what to do or where to turn to. It became clear that our faith had to be more than just loving God, we had to love our neighbors and by the same extention, show love and acceptance to those who had lost all sense of hope and dignity. It didn’t matter how they fell from grace, the church became a source of hope in providing life sustaining meals and comfort for those who had lost everything.

The outreach attracted other volunteers who also wanted to make a difference, so we opened our arms to embrace other churches regardless of their religious affiliation or denominational background, who just wanted to help and share the vision. It was then, that we realized that we were pioneering a new concept – “a church without walls,” thus sharing God’s vision as co-equals and co-partners, seeking the lost and working together in the spirit of unity (“We are many parts – but one body”). And it didn’t matter who got the credit except Jesus Christ!

We are seeking committed individuals, volunteers, churches, businesses and organizations who are interested in co-partnering and are willing to support the outreach. If you are that individual or organization – we need you! Please contact us for more information.

Mahalo and Aloha Pumehana!

Pastor Gary & Risa Crowell
Light of the World C/F
95-1040 Kualapa Street
Mililani, HI 96789
Phone: (808) 386-1996
E-Mail: gcrowell@hawaii.rr.com

P.S. Please feel free to navigate around the blog site. It contains music videos hidden around that will make you laugh or cry, lift your spirits, and inspire you with God’s everlasting and eternal love.

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