Agency Details:

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 (www.tikvatyisrael.com), Healing Waters Ministries Waikiki (www,hwmhi.org), Kaphulu Bible Church (www.kapahulubible.org), Unity Church (www.unitychurch.org), First Chinese Christian Church (www.firstchinese.org), Waikiki Beach Chaplaincy (www.waikikibeachchaplaincy.com) 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 3000 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 five hundred Bibles so far. He has provided us with food for more than 150,000 meals (and thousands more drinks and snacks) to the homeless on Waikiki Beach since July 4, 2003 to the end of October 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. We have a cart with coolers of food and bags of bread and utensils that we used to walk along the street and beach, feeding the poor as we go every day.

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 to 10:30 or later. 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 9:30 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. 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 at Ohana West 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 ALMOST SEVEN YEARS? 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 ALMOST 7 YEARS WE FINALLY FOUND ONE CHURCH THAT PROVIDES EVERYTHING 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:

1. DO something to help the poor (See Deu 15:4)
2. Pray for our leaders.
3. Meet in small groups to develop fellowship and intimacy accomplishing things together.
4. Love God with all our heart, all our soul, and all our strength.



Contact people:


Bob Erb, Founder, Pastor, (phone), (email) Daniel Klurstein, Tikvat Yisrael Rabbi, (phone), (email)


Office fax number: www.boberb.org and www.waikikibeachoutreach.com

Address:


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


Web Site: http://www.DisciplesOfYehua.org

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: Kapahulu & Kalakaua,   Walk distance (in minutes): 2   Nearest Bus Stop: 2, 19, 42, 8, 2, 13, 58, 4, 2 minute walk

Last updated on November 13, 2009