I want to give special thanks to the owner Jon Alexander and all of the staff at the Dolphin Bay Hotel, There was a time period in mid- April 03 that there was no place to go, no rooms anywhere, especially during that Merry Monarch time period. They didn't have any rooms at all, and one of the staff had a room that the carpet needed to be fixed, and I was able to have that room for a while, and then they shifted me from room to room, every couple of days, at discount rates because of the moving. There was a lot of compassion and giving, and peace at this place, within all the people, the rooms and even the landscape. I enjoyed the fresh coffee, muffins, and pick yourself bananas, all for free, every morning. God Bless you all.
This whole family helped, a wonderful group of people. Of I course I needed a car, my truck was be transported across 5,000 miles of this country, and even that was a big mess up, so I had to turn the car I was renting in, at that same festival time period. Then I had know place to go, and then no car either, in a completely strange town, but the Lord was with me. To make a long story short they rented out new cars to the people that they promised to rent the car I had, and they new my situation and let me keep the car. They gave me good rates the best in town, and even drove me to the docks to pick up my truck. I wish to thank the whole Aiona Family and all of the staff for carrying me through the storm. Praise God!
This is the Home Place, the one on highway 11, 1 mile south of Walmart on the same side of the highway. My buddy here, really helped me with all kinds of things, besides furniture, and other matters for this church. And he arranged to get me this desk which is a conference type desk for bible studies, and group counseling, the one I am typing on now. I picked it up at the sister store downtown, and even the owner there gave me a discount, and even had the boys disassemble the whole thing and loaded it into my truck, What a team, between both stores the Home Place has warm and caring people, and they have helped with all kinds of odds and ends for this church and ministry. God Bless both stores
This is my old doctor, who has helped me in more ways then one. He took over for me after my first surgery here in Hilo, he probably saved my life. He is a very simple man and does a lot of volunteer work for others with his talents. The staff are great, and the office, grounds, and waiting room does have a nice, loving atmosphere. Thanks again Doc.
This is also my good friends place, in Papaikou, a few blocks from my house. He makes incredible cheese cakes, and his buddy is the manager. I used to walk down to drink coffee early in the morning, and we would sit and talk, before all these trials and tribulations started getting so heavy. These two guys were dear friends, and I don't walk down anymore, like I should. I have been spending a lot of time in the Word, and I have so many other things going on health wise, I kind of miss it. Fresh baked goods from scratch, baked everyday, and I miss all the samples. Many times as I would head back home, he would give me a added extra something for later. Good people, and good friends.
I guess if you can't find me on the street, or in the office I will be working out at Spencer's. This is the largest gym, in the area and does have the most equipment, I have been working out for about 23 years on and off. I don't ever get any bigger, I just stay in shape, and being 50, I feel very blessed that I can still do the things I did in high school, Praise God! The staff are wonderful people, and this is about the best location area for the church too. Coming here almost everyday helps me to burn off a lot of anxiety, stress, and the spiritual warfare I have to deal with. I Thank the good Lord this place is here. Update I haven't been able to work out since February 04, but someday soon when I heal up I will get back into shape, and not ever be prideful again. Now it has been over 4 years of suffering laying down and doing the sermons and prayer letters, in the middle of August after we have been open for 4 years, it is a sad story, but I keep trying.
We all wish to give a great note of thanks to K-Town Taxi and Tours, for all the transportation needs, with all the medical situations within the church body. We want to express our thanks for the compassion and consideration, for the drivers, employees, and the company. God Bless you Rob and everyone at the company.
Fresh Malasadas also known as the Cheese-Cake King
This is the office of Dr. Francis D. Pien, who is now in the process of saving my life, I was referred to him by Dr. Leo Maher, as I finally had to leave this island, and fly to his office in Honolulu, on my 50th birthday, he knew what was wrong with me in about five minutes, after going through 9 other previous doctors. I am now on IV's of antibiotics for a jaw bone infection that I have been fighting to stay alive, for over five months. You would really have to understand that I cannot eat or chew, I can only drink my food, and lost 17 pounds in the process, and as I write this on May 3rd-04, I thank you Dr. Pien, my doctor and friend. I am hoping by the grace of God I will be healed shortly and return to the project of building the church mission in downtown Hilo, Hawaii. God Bless you all, Dr. Pien, and all of the staff, that had to put up with my phone calls, and all the paperwork.
I also wish to thank my friend and pharmacist Mark at the Ponahawai Pharmacy, when you live in a world of sickness and your life is wrapped around medications it seems that you become friends with your doctors and pharmacists, it is a shame that is the way my life has been going, but we all know this can not last forever, God is going to heal me and it will be a great testimony for all these people to see the glory of God come alive. The funny thing about it is the blood testing lab, Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii is right downstairs and they all know me by name, plus the Hilo Specialty Clinic is also right downstairs where they fly in specialists from the major island of Oahu, where most of the specialists are from Honolulu where their base offices are located, and they know me by name. Anyway I wish to thank the whole staff at Ponahawai Pharmacy, and there has been many times Mark had to work hard and fast and made extra phone calls, when he was out of things. He is a man that shows care and goes beyond his duty as a typical pharmacist; he has given good advice on the medications, and shown extra patience and compassion where I actually enjoy going there, just for the friendship and the conversation. And there was a few times he has opened the door even when it was locked so close to closing time, and he would open it back up and fill my order and still talk and not try to rush me out of there, most people would just say we are closed, but he has helped me twice when the doors were already locked. I just want to say all of you are in my prayers and I thank God there are beautiful people situated in a local pharmacy. God bless you all.
This is a memorial for Dr. K. Ravi Pillai who was in a coma for the longest time, and no one knows the actual day of his passing way. At the time he was my caring physician and he was the nicest man I have ever known, he had a deep compassion for me and my problem, he saw me on Dec. 5th, 2003, he was very concerned about me and he wanted to make it an extreme point that I would see him one month from today, I can remember his words, it was like he knew what the problem was and or had some idea. He went away to India for the holidays to be with family and he never returned, if he did return my whole life could have ended up differently. It seems this neurologist new what he was doing and he was very concerned how the oral surgeon could let me out of his office in the condition I was in. He was very compassionate and smart, and it also seems just by his demeanor that if he did return, he was going to get to the bottom of this, he was different then all the rest. He immediately gave me something for the pain, my mouth looked like Swiss cheese. To make a long story short he never came back, and I tried to get in to the next in line neurologist that was taking many of his cases and of course he would not take me, and in the process I had to wait till March 4th and 5th, just to see two neurologists that said they could not do anything. So in that whole process I started loosing weight and my strength, and I ended up quitting the Gym and my life plan was I was going into competition on the end of March (my 50th birthday) after 23 years of intense training, to enter the over 50 grandmaster's for bodybuilding, and I would have at least placed in anything I entered. I had to quit working out in February 04 and it broke my heart all those years of training I was slowly loosing everything I worked for. Still to this day I have not been diagnosed and weigh 126 with my clothes on. My friend Dr. Ravi Palli died some time after the summer of 04, my God my God I pray he is in your arms. God Bless you so much Doc. If he returned my whole life I believe, would have turned out completely different. I love you Doc, I will see you in heaven. A Christian has the power to live, power to labor, power to love, power to serve, power to suffer and if need be, power to die.-- Dr. Neil R. Lightfoot, Gospel Services, Inc.
Paul are you doing ok? I have read your prayer/emails to me from a year ago, over and over and over and I have them practically framed and memorized. They have been so inspiring to me......and so full of scriptures..... and hope....that I need daily...........therefore that's why I have them close. How is your health and spirit? I pray all the time for you......and what you are doing and going through........I think about you and your work constantly.................the Lord has and is using you deeply....so keep the faith.............don't let satin come against you and your wonderful work. You know when we first started emailing I was a cripple.......and had been for a long time, I had braces on my legs and was in a bad way trying to do the Lords work and suffering family problems, on top of all of that soooooooo....many things that satin was throwing at me but I kept the faith and you know what..today I am walking free of the braces.............fixing to throw those out with the ugly shoes........and just get on with my life.....satin is a liar and always has been...I suffered with arthritis since my twentys and over the past year..Im free of that too........the pain and the swelling........Im free!!!!.20 years has come off of me.I could tell you about so many miracles that have happened to my ..........body......but I wont.....people that see me cant believe it.........I can't either.....really...it's too good to be true.....while I spent years praying for everybody elses problems...I got healed in the process and I never ask for it I was just concerned for those around me........for years......I still have problems with my family that deserted me but I still pray for them always have.......but the great thing in my life is my own healing...........that seem to come about over night.......but that's not what Im writing to you about...its your health......your needs and your concern..........you write such beautiful prayerful emails....which have really touched me, mentally, spiritually and now physically!!!.........
Isnt God wonderful?..I just hope and pray that you are still at his work and doing the job that he sent you to do...you may not know it..but you planted seeds...........and some of them have grown to be trees.................dont stop your wonderful work and NEVER let satin take hold of your thoughts.....you may think you are insignificent.......but I can tell you that you are not!!! Your a mighty wind that blows across this earth..................and you need to keep up his good work................the prayers you've said and the kind emails you've sent has had the power of God in them................even if I never hear from you again I have these emails full of scriptures of hope and promise..........of the word of God to see me through and hopefully I have many years yet to go.............I just want you to know that I am praying and thinking about you ALL the time.....and when you find the time............send me spiritual words again..........I miss them.........your friend in Christ Kelly
This letter came to me on July 19th the day before a major social security doctors appointment and I am facing losing the church and the prayer ministry because of people that tried to buy my house and church office and put me through two months of torment and the loan didn't even go through, and still don't know the outcome, if I can stay or I have to leave this whole place in two days which is almost impossible if this does happen because I am too weak, plus the Pay Pal company made a mistake and erased my bank account for the Church Ministries, and I will not find out what happened till the morning, plus I have been facing intense spiritual warfare that I was beginning to cry, shake and wanted to scream and give up the whole prayer ministry, so on this same night I am facing unbelievable attacks of impossible proportions and circumstances this letter from my friend Kelly came in. We have to really Praise the Lord for this one.
“Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (Isa. 40:30-31) All through Isaiah he gets to the point of explaining God’s presence to help and His power to create and be with us always. You may not think with all of God’s power and how mighty He is but he is like a gentle flower blossoming in the spring and He does care for each of us personally, that is why He knows how many hairs we have on each of our heads, His love for us is immeasurable and so compassionate, nothing can be compared to the love of God. We try to explain God but each of us can not, we only know Him through what we experience here on this planet, we have so much time in eternity to share our hearts together and I know He will explain our whole lives to us and we will sit and break bread and just be in the full light of God’s love. We know God now from all the examples that Jesus His son has done for so many people as He worked His ministry for over three years, there is so much we will learn and share between the both of them, just to fellowship with pure love would be so wonderful it is an unexplainable beauty. As we read the scripture we know that all people get tired sooner or later, but God’s power love and strength never change. You would think He is so busy with things all over the world, but when you get down to pray He is never to tired or busy listen to us and to help us, that is why our prayers are more than what we believe or could imagine. We can have all the walls falling down all around us and you could be so exhausted to do another thing and all we have to do is call on the Lord and He will give us the strength that we need to go onward. I just hope people understand that a prayer is more than just a prayer, it is a communication of open joy and love and a door that opens to the desires of your heart. We have in God hope and patients, because He has so many promises to offer and at times He wants to give them to us in His time and in His order, so we should never be impatient, God has everything under control and we just have to trust in His word. “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as he is pure.” (1John 3:1-3) Isn’t it amazing that we are children of God, I get so joyful, when I am really down and out and in tears, I just say that I am a child of God and He will take care of me, nothing like my earthy dad, I get more and more confidence to be more like Jesus when we know we are God’s family and we are a part of the true light of purity, what else could we ever want? We have to keep striving to stay away from sin, to love others more than just saying it, we have to show it, how hard is it to put your arm around someone and say I will be here for you anytime and I care. And in turn God gives us a confidence that can not be measured. Each day as we grow in the Christian life we become more like Christ at least that is what I am shooting for. And one day we will see Jesus face to face, and just knowing that someday we should strive to be as pure as we can. The word purify means, to keep morally in a straight line, and to be free from any form of corruption of sin. God does purify each of us but we ourselves must exercise each day to stay honorably fit for duty.
“In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.” (Eph. 3:12) Jesus has done so much for us besides healings and salvation and the Holy Spirit, He gave us the freedom to be able to come close to God with liberty and confidence, most of us would be a bit anxious to be in the presence of such a authoritative leader our God, but Christ split the veil, He made the opening so by faith we can enter openly into God’s presence through prayer. Being we have a relationship and believe in Jesus we now have like a invisible key to open the door to our loving arms of God, you see with us having a joining together with Jesus we obtained the openness to the mighty powerful God Himself, we should all have a certain degree of fear of the Lord God, but we should not be afraid of Him, we should want to talk to Him about anything and everything in our lives, what believers just don’t realize is that God is waiting for us to talk to Him, He is wanting to here from each one of us, what a beautiful thing Christ has done for us Jesus has done immeasurable things for us all when He went to that cross and this to have open fellowship with the Father is a beauty that can not be explained. "Don't be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know where I am going and how to get there." (John 14:1-4) Jesus had laid out the floor plans for our lives and how close we will be with Him and all we have to do is believe, He has given us the way to eternal life, although it is our faith or by faith that we know that we have a place prepared for each and everyone of us, theologians say the mansion will be about the size a little smaller than the moon. So look at all we as believers have to look forward to, so whatever we are going through or what ever our lives are now that is all going to change to a life of beauty with Jesus and the Father. These scriptures really tell it like it is with promises and truth, so even though we don’t see heaven we know it is there, the preparations are being made for each one of us, what a natural essence of hope and trust, look at what Jesus has done for all of us and He is still working for us right at this very moment, I tell you we have a God that is just, I can not even find the word to describe Him. So what ever your troubles are or whatever your pain, the Lord is ready to listen and help us at any time, Even though I am fighting an affliction and I am battling intense spiritual physical and emotional warfare I am so happy to know these promises, and my prayers are with you and for you in reality and truth with care and compassion, and I will be talking to God just about you and whatever you are going through, this is my prayer, please have the same hope and faith that I have and He will rescue you from anything. God Bless, Rev. Paul www.thechurch-ministries.org
Prayer Letters to the World
This is a Memorial for Cyn or (Cyndy full of joy) I don't know here last name but all I do know she is with the Lord and she is doing fine, I answered a prayer from one of her close friends in the Sarasota, Florida Area which I myself have lived there too, and I am suprised I never meet her. She was a beutiful person to be around and I will put in the quote sent in this prayer request, it seems she was dieing a horrible death of cancer on her insides and she was going through so much pain that she would just lay in the hospital, and also her liver shut down and I don't understand the rest I don't know why the doctors left her in so much pain. I don't know the exact date but I will add a few quotes from the emails from her friend Trevor this is part of the email and prayer request ["Our dear friend Cyn is in very bad shape I am afraid. Many of you know her as the best friend anybody could ever ask for, others of you that didn't get the opportunity to meet and chat with Cyn will have to trust those of us that did, that this is the truth."] ["Her current condition as stated to me is that she is incoherent and in so much pain the only way she can even rest is with her head between her legs because the pain is so intense. The doctors think that within a week she will fall into a full coma where she may last as many as 2-6 more weeks in. Her liver has completely shut down, and she hasn't been able to eat for a week now. I don't know what else I can say or ask of any of you at this point other than to keep her in your thoughts and prayers."] I sent out the prayers and the prayer scriptures so Trevor could read them to her but she wasn't even coherent, this is a sad story. My Lord and my God please guide cyndy through the gates of heaven and to be in your presence forever, My jesus please love Cyndy which we all know you will, she went throughso much suffering at her time, please give her a special care for her, she loved so many others and everyone she was around she brought joy to. My Lord and my God please welocome her into both your arms and let her know that we all care and love her on this planet. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. (2Cor.1:3-4)For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:38-39) All we do know is we helped Trevor through all of this and it seems by his last quote we did help Cyndy:: [Dear Reverend Paul, I wanted you to know just how grateful I am to receive your prayers. Your prayers are blessing and changing my life!! Reverend Paul, our dear Cynfuljoy (Cyndy full of joy) went home to glory the second week of this month (August 2005). Your prayers helped ease her pain and usher her into the marvelous eternal presence of her Lord Jesus Christ.Her body is being interred at Cavehill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.]
Cyndy
Full of Joy
August 05'
I got this in Today August 18th, 2006 our three year celebration was yesterday. God is always letting me know not to give up!
Dear Rev.Paul,
Greetings to you all in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
My wife and I from India ,are on a short visit to USA ,staying at present with our daughter and son in law in Rochester,Minnesota.
Today I was able to spend a few wonderful hours reading the Church Ministries proclaiming the Word of God. Praise the Lord.
I recollect that my brother in law ( George ------ ,presently residing in Everette,WA)was living in Hilo during 1990-97.His friend Dr.Ravi Pillai , a resident of Hilo visited our house in ------------- during Dec 1995.
Whenever God gives an opportunity for us to visit Hilo, we will be extremely happy to worship our Lord along with you all.Please remember us in your prayers.
