Church

We have really been enjoying our church, North Shore Christian Church (The Tent Church). We have been faithful every Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights....hey, they serve delicious food at every gathering so how could we not be?! ;-) The people are very friendly and we feel comfortable being there. The church has about 100 people on any given Sunday and there are about 10-15 young adults go to the bible study on Wednesday. During our bible study, we talk about what Kahu (pastor) Steve preached about on Sunday, much like small groups at One Life. We are really loving it. There are a few young married couples in the small group and the rest are young, single adults. We have made lots of friends but definitely miss the ones we have back home!

The direction of the church seems to be looking quite exciting. From what we have heard, the leaders and church were kind of in a rut a few years ago. They weren't really reaching out...just doing their thing on Sunday. Well, we had dinner with the Youth Pastor/Assistant Pastor and his wife and they were just so on fire for God and making a change. It was so awesome to hear. The church is making steps to be more outward focused and reach out on the people of Kauai. I am very excited to see what kind of ministry opportunities we can be a part of.

Reaching out to people on Kauai can be quite difficult. Being a Christian isn't as common here as it is back in Ocala. Typically people are either super spiritual (in a yoga loving, tree hugging, Buddah worshipping kind of way) or don't care about life or the meaning of it and smoke a lot of weed among other things that feed the flesh. it would be pretty typical to be driving down the road behind some sort of work truck and smell weed coming from the driver while he is on duty. When it comes to teenagers on the island, drugs are an obvious problem as well as gang-type issues and many of the girls get pregnant before they graduate. I work with a guy and he's been to jail several times, has 3 kids and a couple of grandchildren ...and he's only 31! All that to say, people here desperately need God but are very difficult to reach. That's why we have to be the different in their life!

You can be praying for us to continue to make relationships that edify Christ with the people in the church as well as people outside. Why else are we here right? Can't just be a year long vacation! :-)

With love,
Houston and Brittany