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SUNSET BEACH, HAWAII

January - 1977
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"0 lesu,....owau no ka hokuao mala malama..." Hoikeana 22il6

/ ing star...Revelation 22il6)

(I I Jesus., .the bright and mornWe look up in our beautiful

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i night sky and see thousands of

"tiny" lights.

Here in Hawaii,

the stars seem so close that we

closer than the stars we can see - our Lord Jesus Christ. May our lives reflect the glorious Light as we shine for Him - each in our own place. It's true - if we seek to find a way to serve and -glorify Him, He makes an opportunity. Open our eyes that we may seel Open our
hearts that we may serve!

can almost reach up and touch them But the Brightest Star is truly

SUNSET BEACH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL - 23i years old! We have had 80i(' students, 97 graduates, 200 students and parents
to become Christians.

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^ 2 of our former students will graduate from San Jose Bible College
?his year. Russell and Maurice Saito and their wives will return later to work here in Oahu. Our dream come true! Maurice was ordained to

the ministry here at Sunset'Beach in June, 1976.

among the youth.

This was the first

ordination we have had in our church. As he told of his struggle to decide to be a minister, he laid out his plans to return here and,work One of our first students, Ernie Oba has moved with his family to Los Angeles. The Hauulachurch lost a great family but the Golden West Christian Church has gained one. We become so attached to our people

in the church and school that it hurts to give them up.

school and is living with a warm and loving family, the Donnie Mings!.
They have drawn her to them with- as much love as if she were their own

Alice Shin* who came to us from Japan last year, again is in

daughter. In December we received word that her daddy had died sudden ly. Her relatives in Japan say that she can live here indefinitely. ed Sunday, Dec, 26th,
boarding. Hugh Dusza. a student in the 5"th. grade, had decided to be baptiz

Bible^School.

On Friday (Christmas Eve) he broke his leg while skareThis year Kerrv

We have been studying the Plan of salvation in

So now his baptism will have to wait.

and Katrina come to our school, Susan, the mother, accepted Christ last May and now Katrina wants to be baptized. The school and church
work together!

The^Harold Ige family attend church regularly.

Ann Ka."iiwara were baptized at the Hauula church.

was accepted in the Kamehameka School,

morning devotions on the beach before school,

Last Spring,^our Junior High girls attended Easter Camp and the excitement of^Christian living stayed with them. They started having
We chose Serena

Salena Adams, Joy and ^

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Kuamoo. a lovely Hawaiian girl, for the citizen of the year. I have sush an interesting room full of first graders.

love my Kerry and Terry Moeai^ Hawaiian-Samoan twins - Chris and Pua-'k-

Jack Shepp. a Thai orphan adopted by his grandparents - plus 1/ other beautiful children. The night of our Christmas program when they were all dressed up, playing rythm instruments, singing the Drummer Boy, and

Both, Costa Ricans adopted by a lovely 7th Day Adventist family -

telling of the birth of Jesus, I thought 'The children of Hawaii are

too beautiful to describe!'

glides k-S high up in the Wainanae mountains at Ca' p Timberline.

SUNSET BEACH CHURCH -

A "first" for our school was a camping out for three days for

or 'our parents went and reported a wonderful experience for all.

Some

Glen and-Ruth.Powell have ministered to hundreds of people who have como and gone "here in this church during their 25 years of servi-oe-^We v/anted to give them a special honor. So - a surpl:ise"~was planned to present them with a check; for a long trip. The Powell Day was set for September 5 I had asked the Lord to supply us with $1000. Letters
were sent to friends far and near. On Saturday night as I totaled the

receipts, the amount was exactly $1000.

has come in since then.

Amid the tears of gratitude

for this honor, The Powells very humbly accepted it and almost promised us that they would consider a trip - maybe to Switzerland. More money
Grandma Brandenburg is 5 months away from her 103rd birthday. She

wrote, "The tribulations of old age are with me, but the promise of God shines brighter than ever as the years fly by." She lives in Calif. Truly, one of God's bright stars.
This Christmas, our church served a "free dinner" to anyone who
was away from home and wanted to share in Christian fellowship. Jo Roth who masterminded it with help from other women served about 70 very appreciative people. We think it should be an annual service. The church has suffered a great financial loss - most of our new building fund was in a finance corp. that is defunct now. This means

that we do not start building this summer as planned.

why, but our confidence remains in God,
CHRISTIAN GROWTH AND SERVICE

We don't know

Last Spring 150 Christian women held their first Retreat which was at the lovely resort Kuilima Hotel, about 5 miles from here. The speak er was Dixie Martin and she was superb, I led in a workshop on "Quiet Time". Our next one is planned for March. We hope to have 300 women. An Abundant Life Seminar with Lowell Applebury was held at the Pearl Harbor church and we attended that for several nights,
V.B.S. at Sunset Beach was small but was another means to reach

the children. At Maile, we were swamped with 40-50 Samoan children. At first, I was amazed at the way they settled arguments with each other with their fists. As each day went on, I grew to love them. Their fighting let up, too, I drove my car 50 miles a day to pick uo child ren who lived in valleys and in shacks on a deserted beach. One of these girls found $20, on a beach and she gave it all for the mission
offerings. Very unselfish children!

Another pleasure I had this summer was helping Lourdes t ray Filip ino neighbor, who is near 4'0 years old and retarded. We had "school" one day a week - she read from a Bible reader and wrote stories about Jesus, She never misses church morning or night. One of God's lesser lights according to this world, but bright in His sight. Each day is beautiful - our weather has been perfectly Hawaiian. I see so much to do - so many people to visit, I try to visit each of ray students during the year. They consider my visit to them very import ant! I get bogged down like everyone else, interruptions, extra duties in the school office, some long T.V. programs - but I love each, moment
of each happy day in this work.
Your letters and cards all brought prayers of thankfulness for

just knowing you. May vie all find much to do this year for the Lord, Each glorious star is important to God or He would not have placed it in the heavens. We must realize how important it is to keep our light
shining for Him,
"E MAU KE ALOHA 0 KA HAKU ME KAKOU"

(May the love of the Lord be with us all)

Jessica Floyd 59-578 Kam Hwy.

Haleiwa, Hawaii

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SUNSET BEACH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL HAWAII

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"Rejoice, rejoice, 0 Christian Lift up your voice and sing Eternal hallelujahs to Jesus Christ the King"

Some days are "singing days" when the Joy of the Lord fills us. This summer has been so full of good things that I want to share them with you, my friends. My desk is full of clippings from church papersone of the latest is from Wayne Smith's Southland's paper* "The Lord respects me when I work But He loves me when I singe"
Sometimes our hearts sing without a tpoice. ijioments when He listens to my praise.
How I thank Him for these

Singing the joy of s a l v a t i o n . ^

Toshio Saito was baptized into Christ late one afternoon in July

in the Pacific Ocean by his son, Maurice. The Saitos have lived in Sunset for over 20 yearss their sons and Mrs. Saito accepted Christ here, the boys graduated from our Christian School, Prayers for Mr. Saito's acceptance of Christ have never ceased. This summer when Maur ice and his wife, Faye, came to work in our church as youth minister, -they-had-one-^rayerthat outshone-a.ll the others - to see his fa bher be come a Christian. Maurice preached each Sunday in July making The Word plain - how could Toshio resist the urging of the Holy Spirit any long

er? So, true happiness reigns now at Saitos. Maurice has gone to Lin coln Christian Seminary to work on his Master's degree. They plan to
return to Sunset Beach, to work here. Russell, his brother, plans to

work in Hawaii after his graduation from San Jose Bible College next year. How wonderful it is to see our own come back to work with us. In the Spring, Nobuko Tsue, a neighbor, came to me asking how to
become a Christian. I went with haste to her home and taught her from

the Bible - she was baptized in April. She loves her new life in the Lord - another regular attender at church. One of our school mothers was baptized on Easter. She is a bless ing to the Hauula church. The Lord is using our school to show the Way
of the Lord to the students as well as to their parents.

Hugh Dusza, the boy with the broken leg, was baptized (cast and ^ all, wrapped in a plastic bag) before he moved to Alabama this Spring.
His mother, a-beautiful person, who had never known the necessity of baptism, was baptized with Hugh. His whole class and teacher, Ellie
Otake, witnessed his baptism.

The Islands have many others to sing about,

And in Kentucky.......For years, friends of Ruby Maggard's have been praying for Buster, her brother,.to submit to Jesus Christ. Buste:

has been very ill, but on August ^th, he gave his life to Christ and
was baptized into Christ ALOHA, MOTHER STILL

joining the great family of God,

Last Sunday the lounge chair usually occupied by Mrs. Still in our church was empty. That afternoon she went Home to be with her Lord,

(above was copied from

to their lives*

church paper written by Jo Roth, May 29* 1977)

On the graves of Mr. and Mrs, Still is this simple yet great testimony
"God's Servants".

Singins; Serve the Lord with gladness

quiet times in which to relax,

This summer has been a busy one for me, yet, I have had many

Marilyn Priddy, from Kentucky, came^

over to visit me and we spent 4' beautiful days sightseeing on the Big

Island and tlaui.

We rented a Toyota and drove up to the volcano and

down to the Black Sands, around the mountains to sleepy little Hana and
through cane and pineapple fields to the old city of Lahainas What a
treat this trip wasi I worked in VBS here and in Maile with the Samoan children. At Sunset, we had a close contest betiveen Cookson Hills - Alaska and Okla

homa - Homes.

Our children are generous with their sharing - the total

amount sent was $75

Another pleasure I had was to encourage and teach several girls piano
this summer while Allene Miller, their teacher, was in California. I

started 2 girls on my own. I also had "school" one day a week for Lourdes Viernes, a retarded woman who^comes to church faithfully. How proud she is that she can read the Bible Story Readere "Grandmother Brandenburg had her 103rd birthday in IVIay and is living to
her fullest right on. She is in Redwood City and writes to me often.

Our Women's Retreat last Spring was a huge success with 200 women gath
ered for strengthening in the Lord and for fellowship with one another.
We stayed in a beautiful hotel near Sunset on the North Shore. A few
women who attended were not Christians, some returned to their churches

and were baptized. Spring.

Our 33^d retreat is being planned now for next

The Sunset Women have gotten together a prayer group which meets each Wednesday morning for prayer and growth - together. This has opened up many new aspects of prayer. Some of our new Christians are learning
to pray.

There is a touch of sadness in our school family - we have lost 2 of our fathers this summers Mr. Corpuz, whose daughter Barbara is at the

top of her 1st grade class (how proud he was of her) and Mr. Versola
who was our custodian for several years. His daughter, Geocila, is in

the 6th grade.

and childreno

These children attend church regularly.

There is a

custom for older Filipino men who lose their wives to go to the Philipines and find a young wife. Both of these older men had younger wives On September X, we open the doors of the Sunset Beach Christian School for the 25th year. How exciting it is to think back on those years and remember how God has brought us to many victories. We place our school
in His hands for the future.

We have 100 children enrolled with a few more waiting to get in. This is the largest enrollment we have had at the beginning of a school
year.

We are at work on plans to build 2 more much needed classrooms this

yearo

I had many friends come by to see the work here this past year. How I love to renew old friendships and keep that bond ever strong. My "old" friends certainly have a secret way of keeping their youth. It's hard to talk "Senior Citizen" talk!

-We'll go on-singings "How-Great Thou Art".......,

I ' l l sign this letter as Harold Gallagher, minister of'the Kaimuki Christian Church in Honolulu signs his letters to the church family-

Aloha in Jesus,

Jessica Floyd 59-578 Kam Hwy.

Haleiwa, Hawaii

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