Pastor Larry Hale shared that on the second Saturday of each month, church members of Eleele Baptist (Kauai) work together to distribute food to community members in need. The most recent was April 10. Larry said he thanks God for all the volunteers that came out and the food He provided as the need has
On Friday, March 5, 2021, the Wives in Ministry team made up of Wendy Martin, Barbara Webb, Noe Okawara, and Diana Ventura hosted a virtual gathering for our HPBC pastor spouses. Since it had been a year since the world and ministry were turned upside down and the annual in-person retreat was not possible, it
By Ken Reyes, BCM Intern Though the word “unprecedented” has likely been over-used to describe the past year, it continues to characterize the experiences that college students face today. Our students at BCM O‘ahu and Hilo BCM are no strangers to it either. Thus, helping them navigate through the emotional and spiritual toil of the
I pray that this edition of the Pacific Connector finds you well and blessed, pursuing the will of our Father. For the last edition and several upcoming editions of The Pacific Connector, I want to highlight elements of the HPBC that you may not be aware of. These articles originate from questions I hear from
Throughout much of 2020, pastors and leaders gathered on Wednesdays at noon Hawaii time for encouragement, challenge, and collaboration. This February, we launched the Pastor’s Forum for Hawaii Pacific Baptist Pastors. This virtual gathering meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at noon Hawaii time (11 am in Samoa; Thursdays at 5 am in Bangkok,
Eden Hale, Eleele church member and daughter of Pastor Larry and Lisa Hale, found a creative way to promote generosity for this year's Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® for International Missions. She created a display to represent our East Asian Peoples Affinity missionaries and other aspects of the global missions task. When the goal was reached,
10 Hawaii Women's Missionary Union (WMU) Members Join National WMU in Hand Writing Letters by Gail Gierhart If you thought handwriting letters was gradually being replaced by email and printed correspondence, you might be surprised that WMU leaders across our nation handwrote 18,000 letters in the month before Christmas. These were not Christmas cards, but
Sunday Highlight: January 3 Today we want to pray for one of our missionaries serving in Europe. Her name is Amy Williams and she serves in the Republic of North Macedonia. That’s a small country with about two million people, located north of Greece. It was part of Yugoslavia before it broke up. Amy teaches
Sunday Highlight: January 10 Let’s focus our prayers on the West Coast of our country today. We are going to pray for two of our North American missionaries planting a new church in Oakland, California. They are Akeem and Jaime Smith. Our church is supporting them — because our church supports these two missionaries and