Letters, Notes & Emails to Keawalai Church

Letters, Notes & Emails

Outreach Grants for Maui Food Bank
& Women Helping Women

The Outreach Committee approved a grant of $1,000 for the Maui Food Bank and a grant for $1,000 for Women Helping Women. The following letters were received from both organizations in acknowledgement of the grants.

Maui Food Bank

It is my pleasure to thank you for your recent gift of $1,000.00. We sincerely appreciate the continued support you have extended to the Maui Food Bank.

Our goal is to provide hunger relief for anyone who might be in need. With your help we are able to reach thousands of people throughout Maui County.

Currently we are serving over 10,000 people a month. This is almost double the amount of people served last year at this time. Your generosity has helped make this possible.

More than ever before working poor families, seniors on fixed incomes and single parents are relying on the Maui Food Bank just to survive month to month. Because of folks like you who share our vision, we are able to make sure that no one in our island ʻohana goes to bed hungry. Thank you again for your kindness and generosity.

Mahalo for helping the hungry.

Marlene Rice, Director of Development
Maui Food Bank
Wailuku, Maui
November 2, 2011

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Women Helping Women

Aloha! Mahalo for your generous support.

The Mission of Women Helping Women is to end domestic violence through advocacy, education and prevention; and to offer safety, support and empowerment to women and children, victims of domestic violence.

Women Helping Women
Wailuku, Maui
November 14, 2011

Fond Memories

Andrew and I have fond memories of attending your Hawaiian language church. It was a most moving experience for the both of us.

I’m also writing to thank you for your prayers and support for a successful operation on October 26, 2011. My prospects look good for a complete recovery and elimination of my cancer.

I won’t know that until five to seven years down the road but I am confident in the work done by the urologists and nursing staff in Victoria, B.C., Canada.

I’m recovering comfortably at my parents up at their island home in Courtney, B.C. Thank you again for inviting us to share in your worship services.

I miss Hawaiʻi and hope to return in a couple of years. I will be thinking of you often. God bless.

John Coverdale
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
November 17, 2011

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A Special Day

We have returned safely from our wonderful trip to Maui. On behalf of the entire Jerome family, we want to thank you for helping make my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary celebration so special. The altar flowers were beautiful, the special acknowledgment of our family during the service and in the bulletin and the kind and loving words from so many people just made it a very emotional day for us.

The absolute highlight was The Lord’s Prayer sung in Hawaiian. We all shed tears of joy that our heavenly Father is so good to us! We just can’t thank you enough for helping to make this day one that we will always remember and cherish so very much. Mahalo and aloha until we meet again.

Shawn & Brian Clearman
Moe & Anita Jerome
Todd & Kelli Jerome
Troy & Marcy Jerome
with 5 grandsons & 1 grand-daughter
Washington State
November 27, 2011

Auntie Norma Lei Noland’s efforts with the altar flower arrangements was much appreciated by all.

Memorial Services

08/13            Leland Stanford “Stan” Magg
            November 11, 1929 - Glendale, California
            July 21, 2011 - Oceanside, California

09/04            Mary Jo Arndt
            September 18, 1933 - Chicago, Illinois
            September 24, 2011 - Lombard, Illinois

10/07            Stanley Herbert Raymond
            March 2, 1923 - Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi
            September 28, 2011 - Kahului, Maui

11/25            Daryl D. Conroy
            1923-2008
            (Ashes inurned at Pōʻaialoha Columbarium)

11/26            Audreé Patricia Kavanagh
            May 3, 1926 - Garfield Heights, Ohio
            November 16, 2011 - Kahului, Maui

12/17            Peter John Awai
            June 24, 1939 - Haʻikū, Maui
            December 7, 2011- Kahului, Maui

Baptisms

11/27            Joseph Kekua Ellis-Rabago, Wailuku
                        Leonard Rabago, Jr. & Shalea Ellis-Rabago, Parents
                        Carl & Debra Willing, Godparents

12/11            Sophie Allison Kauanoe O’Connor,
               Hanford, California
            Patrick & Katheryn O’Connor, Parents

12/11 Hoikaika Alves, Wailuku

12/11 Micah-Laine Eleneki, Wailuku

12/11            Lahela Lawakuaikoaloha Harris-Eleneki, Wailuku
            Micah-Laine Eleneki, Parent
            Speshel Kaowilil, Dominic-Dane Eleneki, Godparents
            ʻŪlili Quenga & Melia Mattos, Godparents

12/11            Waiʻapo Micah-Joseph Alves, Wailuku
            Hoikaika Alves & Micah-Laine Eleneki, Parents
            Olivia Solomon, Hoʻokahi Alves, Godparents
            Kai Helgeson, Shanda-Jean Eleneki, Godparents

12/11            Loea Makamaemakanaoalohanāpūʻikikuʻupuʻuwai
               Harris-Eleneki, Wailuku
            Micah-Laine Eleneki, Parent
            Speshel Kaowili,Kuaika Quenga, Godparents
             Shanda-Jean Eleneki, Kaniela Kaʻahanui, Godparents

Blessings

11/04            Hawaiian Dredging Construction, Kahului
            Lisa Kalawaiʻa
            (Pule Hoʻomaikaʻi - Workers & Start of Project)

12/03            Destination Resorts Hawaiʻi, Waikapū
            Grace Haake
            (Pule Hoʻomaikaʻi - Annual Christmas Party)

12/05 Abraham & Drora Aronowicz, Wailea
(Hoʻolaʻa ʻAina - Land Blessing)

12/16 Dennis & Reneé Gomes, Kīhei
(Hoʻolaʻa Hale - House Blessing)

12/16            Pacific Whale Foundation, Maʻalaea
            Merrill Kaufman
            (Pule Hoʻomaikaʻi - Staff)