Agency - Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry

My name is Bob Erb, founder of this ministry. If I knew that I had only 30 days to live on this earth, this is what I would do for God. What we DO for the least of our brothers and sisters, we are doing these things to God. I am over 65 years old and my father died at 66. If you think you might want to get on the narrow path, DO God's will, not what's in it for me. Eliminate homelessness in Waikiki, Hawaii, and the USA.

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)OR EVERY DAY - NEED EXTRA HELP FOR FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS AND 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. Our goal is to provide the meals for the homeless seven 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 8 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), Hearts for Homeless from New Hope Diamond Head (www.heartsforhomeless.com), Kaphulu Bible Church (www.kapahulubible.org), Unity Church (www.unitychurch.org), First Chinese Christian Church (www.firstchinese.org), Honolulu FreeMasons, Honolulu Christian Businessmen's Association, 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 4000 or more meals each month. We are far short from enough funding so the pastor doesn't have to use his social security, as he has been doing for the past eight years. It needs a total of six churches (we have 3 partners now) 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.kohus.webs.com, 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 350 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 (over 350 today). God has shown us that the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry will coordinate the distribution of food to the homeless seven days a week as resources become available.

God has led us to distribute about 2000 Bibles so far. He has provided us with food for more than 250,000 meals to the homeless on Waikiki Beach since July 4, 2003 to the November 2011. We served over 38,000 meals in the past 12 months alone. 'About five thousand men had eaten' (Mat 14:21) in one day by Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah. We have a cart with coolers of food and bags of bread and utensils that we pull to walk along the street and beach, feeding the poor as we go at least one day a week (past years we did it most every day). Today we assemble in Kapiolani Park 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 9:45AM to noon or so. In the evenings, at 5 PM we provide a picnic dinner and a message from God every day except Tuesday and Sunday, 6 PM on Tuesdays, and 9:30 AM to noon on Sundays. The ministry has teamed up with Healing Waters Ministry, pastors Tuia and Dottie, and have special church services under a tent in the Kapiolani Park by the Queen Surf Beach concession stand. 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?

Because of the decrease financial donations, God is proving more food then ever to the ministry now. The economy should not diminish the real needs required of the homeless every day. Donations are still needed to pay for the costs of the car that was donated.

We are in need of:

A. Reliable van to help us pick up food donations and to get the food to and from the park every day.

B. Financial support to buy food, carts, coolers, pots and pans, paper plates, napkins, cups, forks and spoons, and other expendables;

C. Join into a partnership with the ministry with a pledge of $100 or more per month (at least enough for one day a month);

D. Churches or individuals to cook and deliver a meal for 100 or more people once a week at the Queens Beach Snack Shop by the Waikiki Aquarium at 4:45 PM any day (Call Bob at 497-6920 to coordinate)

E. Food, including rice, pasta, mashed potato 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);

F. Hygiene products, toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap, razors, clothes, daily labor, jobs;

G. 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);

H. Volunteers, entertainers, cooks, musicians, persons with a drivers license to pick up food as needed; and;

I. 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 EIGHT 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 8 YEARS WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH THREE CHURCHES THAT PROVIDE MOST 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.



History:
Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry was initiated as a committee under The Body of Christ Jesus Fellowship July 4, 2003, when food was first distributed. As the outreach and food supply grew, the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry became independent and was registered in Hawaii as a Domestic Non-Profit Corporation on March 1, 2004 by Robert E. Erb, Jr. under Chapter 414D-32, Hawaii Revised Statues. It is partners with Unity Church, Kapahulu Bible Church and Healing Waters. It's objective is to feed and minister to the homeless in Waikiki Beach seven days a week. The original funding has been derived from what God has provided Bob Erb through his pension and social security since July 2003 and most of the funds still come from his pension (about $500 to $1000 per month) but needs more food and funds from others. Presently, the Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry with others are feeding 80 to 160 people seven times a week as God dropped more food to the ministry. The outreach is growing, having over 100 volunteers, but still needs additional volunteers. We need other churches, outreaches, organizations and individuals to assist with providing food on a regular basis. God had dropped food supplies that exceed the hours of the volunteers available. One example of a volunteer Heather, a student from Chaminade University who had been providing 100 or more sandwiches every Thursday since October 2007. Jenny from Japan provided food in lunch bags every Sunday for about a year from December 2004 and then tithed for about a year, while the pastor, Bob, distributed them. Are you willing to volunteer?

God has shown us that the ministry is also in need of an office, and food service facility. God provided the funds to apply for 501(c)(3) tax exempt status September 2010 and still waiting for approval. The ministry cannot buy food from the Food Bank yet, and hope to apply for grants, and register independently thereafter. We now have Tikvat Yisrael Messianic Congregation and Healing Waters Ministries Waikiki that are 501(c)(3) tax exempt churches that can also accept contributions for this ministry if that status is important. The ministry has no operating facility, the food is being stored at many locations, the wagons are being stored in a parking garage and in the pastors apartment, and the pastor had been sleeping on floors, garages, tool sheds, and carports for years, allowing him to use all his pension for food. Because of the pastor's long suffering in living this way, his consistency in providing these services to the poor need to be recognized by others and others need to come to help him. A worker is due his wages, but he is paying for the job. WE NEED AN OPERATING FACILITY AND A STIPEND. Can you help? NOW, we need a new facility and additional funding, and provide the founding pastor an a salary (unless you believe someone should work for no wages forever). The pastors and all helpers are not asking for any wages at this time. The pastor is paying for all administration costs out of the pension God has given him and 100% of all donations have been used to purchase food. Are you willing to assist in some small way?

Rodney Shim, an ordained pastor from other churches (and registered to preform marriages), has joined this ministry at the end of 2006 and has been elected to be the evangelist and a director for this ministry. He presently has a part time job as a counselor, and his heart desires to be in the ministry full time. We also have Earl Canada, the Baptism Coordinator, who focuses on helping lead the homeless to know Jesus. We have missionary pastor Abel Kim preaching with Bob once or twice a week. We have Maurice from Kapahulu Bible Church, who has been providing meals most weeks for about four years, now. We have others who volunteer serving many days of the week. Can you help us?

We provide food, drinks, clothing, hygiene products, visits to hospitals and prison ministry. We need help to provide shelter and jobs to the homeless. Can you help us?

This could be your last chance to serve God before your last 30 days on this earth.



Contact people:


Bob Erb, Founder, Pastor, (phone), (email) Daniel Klurstein, Tikvat Yisrael Rabbi, (phone), (email) Glory Torres, General Manager, (phone), (email)


Office fax number: www.kohus.webs.com

Address:


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


Web Site: http://www.kohus.webs.com

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 asking churches and individuals to tithe to the ministry with a contibution of $100 per month.   Nearest Bus Stop: 2, 4, 8, 13, 14, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 42, 2 minute walk

Last updated on December 13, 2011