Amen and amen. Good morning and welcome. You can be seated. I want to welcome those of you that

are joining us online. We're so very glad that you are. Before we get started, I want to provide you

with a detailed update on our ongoing missions outreach of which we have many, but I want to start with Maui, which is obviously

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.

I do 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

for Maui and particularly the people of Lahaina. So Steve wrote me, I have permission

from him to share this. 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 and 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. All good till they stop and rent has become more

than anyone can afford. Example? What was already high at $3,000 per month for a small two to

three bedroom home, FEMA is paying landlords $8,000 to $9,000 per month.

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