Amen. Amen. And amen. And good morning and welcome and you can be seated. Glad you're here.

Those of you online, glad you're joining us as well. Before we get started, I want to provide you with a

detailed update on our ongoing missions outreach, of which we have several. And I want to start with Maui,

which obviously is close to all of our hearts here on the islands. While we are planning,

Lord willing, and if we're still here, to have Pastor Steve Santos and his wife Kim here on Thursday,

March 7th. You might want to mark your calendars down for that. I want to apprise you of what's

happening now. And to do that, I'll share with you what Pastor Steve wrote me, and I do so

with the hopes that you'll continue to pray both persistently and consistently.

Steve wrote me saying, Lahaina still needs Jesus.

Jesus is the only answer as always for the trials that we are facing.

The government is not the answer, local, state, or feds.

And throwing money at this situation won't help because

there are way too many hands out needing and those stealing, I'm sure, and the government

is tight-fisted and a bad throw.

It's a real mess. 13,000 lost their homes that night on August 8th

with 6,000 plus still displaced, depressed,

angry, hurting people, still being temporarily housed by Red Cross in FEMA

at hotels and private vacation rentals on West Maui.

Many thousands more trying to figure out life on the other side of the island and many that have left Maui and Hawaii for the mainland with promises from FEMA to pay their bills for 18 months.

FEMA is destroying any future rental market for locals on West Maui by paying landlords

thousands of dollars over market value so that some landlords are now dumping tenants ASAP

trying to so they can legally raise the rent with FEMA paying them exorbitant amounts of money.

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