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SPRING 2007"Where does time go?"Can you believe Spring Break is upon us already. It seems that the New Year has just started, but here we are going into the fourth month of the year already. And for many of us it also means a new time, a time of change, is coming. I am talking about Graduation. Yes that 10-letter word we all dread as we get closer to it. Graduation for me brings up great memories of being with friends and going to parties and doing all sorts of fun things. But it also brings memories of preparing for college, getting a job to support myself, and other not so fun things I would rather forget. But if the truth was to be told (and it will be) I wouldn’t have my graduation time changed in any way. I grew stronger in becoming an independent adult and began to learn what becoming an adult truly meant. Of course it would be a few (or maybe a lot) more years before I actually became an adult, but that is something I learned along the way too. I am an older person now – or as a saying goes I am not old, just youth challenged. And as I look back at the years I really have to wonder where the time went. I have good memories about many things – friends, family, jobs, and the like. I also have not so good memories about many things – friends, family, jobs, and the like. And I honestly believe my memories won’t be too different from yours when you look back in 35 or 30 years. I do hope, though, that your memories will include the wonderful, and maybe struggling times you had with God. God is a big part of your life and he is always with you and he will remember the times you spend with him. So as you share your life with God today, tomorrow and in the years to come remember to always look at these memories so we won’t ask ourselves when we are 40, “Where did my time with God go?”
Randy's MessageWe’ve recently returned from our mission trip to San Francisco. Five young men and five young women along with one older man (me) and one older woman (Aunty Ann) spent a week immersed in service for the street-people of that city. We fed about 600 street-people breakfast, served hot chocolate in them where they live, prayed with them in the city’s civic centers, and went around the city to say prayers for some of the churches within the community. What was most rewarding about this trip was the friendships which were made. Not just the friendships between us twelve, but the friendship each of us made with Jesus. For some of us it was the very beginning of our journey with Christ and for others we traveled along the path much further. And we came to understand that no matter where we are on our personal journeys with each other and with Jesus, it was a good place to be. We learned that love and acceptance are the beginnings of a true friendship and that true friendship is the beginning of a healing process that will cure us of our pains. I personally watched as my new friends became closer to each other and to Jesus, and I watched my new friends start to heal from the years of oppression of being without true friends. Maybe its time we all learned how to be better friends with one another; but mostly we should learn to be best friends with Jesus. Now that is a friendship worth having. Aloha ke Akua ***************
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 Mission Fund UpdateCurrent Funds And The Last Word Goes To?When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
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