Robin Moore's Group

Our team made it safely to Big Island! It was a long travel day and another 2 hours to Hilo but we’re ready for the serving week to begin!

Today we went to Laupahoehoe area and got to meet Pastor Josh! He shared about the ministries at the church and God moments he’s witnessed on mission for Christ in different areas. We were helping Keiki’s Kloset this afternoon!

The Keiki Kloset is part of Hanai Ministries and its open very Saturday. These stores are for families which include donated clothes and toys for free! Our crew brought some handmade dresses from home to donate. And we helped organize and clean the space for families to seamlessly shop!

It was raining so not many families stopped by to shop! There was one family that did and it was so sweet to see something so simple as organizing the bins have an impact.

Towards the end of our time at HBC, we just talked story with Pastor Josh. Got to share the ways God has performed miracles in our lives and left feeling encouraged by how God moves in the simple transformations. This was a beautiful moment for the team.

We’re not used to the Hawai‘i humidity and are squeezing every moment with air flow to hit our face. Gotta avoid having that sweat stache!

Drove down south to attend church in a barn with Pastor Josh. The church started as just a bible study that was meeting weekly and had formed into a small house church with teaching the Word and fellowship. Pastor Josh taught us about the functional church in Acts 12. We participated in communion and then fellowship with a potluck!

After service every Sunday, everyone gathers to eat together! We met new people and had great conversations over some yummy food!

After leaving Hamakua Baptist we stopped to see the ocean and eat lunch!

Drove all the way down to the most southern part of the USA! Charles said that he’s not getting too close to the edge for this group photo. But what an amazing view!

Went down the road from where church was and stopped by a small farm with local honey and macadamias! We got to see some animals and chat with a friendly girl named Emma! She took a group picture of us with her camera.

All kicks and giggles taking photos by the beautiful ocean until a huge wave unexpectedly wipes us out! Safe to say we are covered by God’s protection to be marked with just scraps and bruises from the wipeout! Lost a few items but super grateful to be alive!

Charles lost his glasses in the ocean and can’t see so looks like he’s stuck with Robin’s! How’s he looking?

Did our morning devotional on James 2 and prayed over the day and our bodies after the injuries from yesterday afternoon! May the Lord continue to guide and protect us this week.

• Had to try what’s known as the local sweet treat donut this morning!

Our Monday service day was spent at Mary’s House. She lives off grid in Pahoa and some of here home was destroyed during the hurricane. Our team helped tear down her broken tent and rebuild it!

Some of us tackled all of the over grown weeds that were hiding all of her plants! We learned so much about what she’s growing and how this simple task was super helpful to her home!

Maggie holding up the tarp and she was having a flying superhero moment! LOL

It was on and off pouring as we put up the the carport covering! But look at everyone’s hard work (aka everyone’s watching that Charles won’t fall)

Mary was brought to tears after seeing how fixed front deck with the new covering. She is a single mom that was beyond grateful for how we helped her out. We had great conversations and learned so much about her life and heart for Jesus.

Then we drove back to town to prepare and serve dinner at the Salvation Army. Every evening they provide free dinner, showers, and a place to sleep for the houseless community.

Met a new friend who is staff for Salvation Army and he got a selfie with us! Shakas up

Hi Katlynn and Olivia at the food truck kitchen window! We prepared chile, rice, and salad for dinner!

Super cool we get to help out the Hilo community and give a break to the staff who prepare and serve dinner every evening.

We had the opportunity to chat and listen to different stories. Here is Robin having a friendly convo with a new friend!

On Tuesday we drove back to South Point area to the Crooks Farm! Their farm got pretty wrecked by the hurricane last time. Their family welcomed us and showed us their animals and land!

Walked a few acres into their farm and found all of the fallen trees. The whole family joined us - Josh, Elizabeth, Eli, Cainan, Eden, and Andrew.

Robin and Charles in action picking up broken and dead tree branches to a pile.

Took a little snack break, picked a fresh orange from the tree and ate it! They were the juiciest oranges ever. The Crook family sell kau oranges at the local markets. It was sooo refreshing!

Elizabeth, Eden, Ginger and Mikaylee helped out bother taco tuesday lunch with their own grass fed ground beef while the rest kept up with the farm work! Got to keep talking story with the Crook family and even hold a chicken. What a great afternoon of fellowship that ended in a group prayer. We all truly felt like family!

We stopped by Hawai’is Volcanoes National Park to learn about Mauna Loa. It was raining and cold! The blessing of being patient is that we got to see some lava at one of the viewpoints!

We served in Hilo today at the Neighborhood Place of Puna. We were supposed to help restore their community garden but because of the pre-hurricane heavy rain, we helped reorganize their entire garage that is used for giving out free clothes and a their food pantry.

For our lunch break we visited the Hilo Farmers Market! Maggie’s dream came true of finally trying some local fruits. Olivia’s dream came true of getting some shave ice! And we all shopped for souvenirs and hung out before heading back to NPP.

One last group photo with the team and PPM staff before they fly out. Grateful for everyone’s flexibility as our plans changed throughout the week with the wet weather and Hurricane Nolo coming!

The Crum’s, Mikaylee, and Coby had the best week despite the constant rain — Mahalo!