ALOHA HAVEN
ALOHA HAVEN
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Welcome to our homeless SHELTER IN THE STORM!

To help understand us, let's start with a few Hawaiian words:
 
ALOHA: {Our Mission}   To show faith, hope, love,mercy, kindness, forgiveness, compassion; to remember with affection; Salutations: Greetings! Hello! Good-by! Farewell!
 
KOKUA: {Our Goal} To help, aid, assist, support, accomodate, co-operate;
 
KUMU: {Our Solution} 1. To teach, tutor. 2. Offer a beginning, source, origin; starting point. 3. Establish a base, foundation. 4. Find reason, cause, goal, motive, purpose, why.
 
MALAMA:  {Our Offering} To take care of, tend, care for, preserve, protect, maintain; caretaker, brother's keeper.
 
MALIHINI:  {Our Guests} Newcomer, company; one unfamiliar with a place or custom; for the first time.
 
PILIKIA:  {Our Residents Problem}  Experience trouble of any kind, great or small; distress, adversity, affliction, accident, difficulty, tragedy, lack; troubled, bothered, cramped, crowded. (See 'a'ole pilikia = no problem, no trouble.)

CLICK HERE to see our Calendar of Events

We all have important values and ideas, things we care about and want to share. Sometimes we feel our ideas can even change the world, and we want to let other people know how they can join in and make all our lives better.

This site will present our organization's cause or ideas to the world. As communicating isn't always easy, we'll try to include photos and images that convey our message (remember, a well-chosen picture is a great way to get a point across). We'll also include specific information about our organization and its members, so no one forgets the people behind the pictures.

On this home page, we'll introduce our cause or message. We'll also try to include a picture or two that represents the kind of work we do.

ALOHA Bed & Breakfast
ALOHA Homeless Education
ALOHA Fund-raising speeches
ALOHA Non-profit 501(c)(3)
ALOHA Feasibility Study

SHELTER: n.   1.  Something that covers or affords protection, as from the elements of danger.  2. dwellings provided for numbers of people or for a community
 
LIFE-THREATENING WEATHER:
- 40" F or below, or
- 20 mph + winds, or
- 50% + precipitation
 
HOMELESS = Prolonged poverty; 13% of America lives below the poverty level (40% of these are children); being poor means being an illness, an accident or a paycheck away from living on the streets.

MISSION STATEMENT

The ALOHA HAVEN, a homeless shelter, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. 

Its message is based on the Bible.  

Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. 

Its mission is to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

Jesus' limitations & suffering
 
For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is - limited and suffering and subject to sorrows & death - He had the honesty and courage to take His own medicine.  Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and played fair.  He can exact nothing from man that He has not exacted from Himself.  He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life,  the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain, humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. 
When He was a man, He played a man. 
 He was born in poverty and died in disgrace
and thought it well worthwhile...
 

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