A CAB Discovery Trip to Kona,

Our mission trip to Kona Hawaii (yes Kona) has been amazing.  This is a discovery mission that has been filled with divine interventions, divine appointments, and further confirmation that God has ordained the Construction Advisory Board (CAB).  When we arrived we didn’t have one meeting scheduled.  That changed with three days packed full of Spirit led meetings.

CAB is coming alongside The University of the Nations (U of N) to support their Campus Development build team.  They have multiple, medium to large scale projects to complete through the summer, and some that continue into the winter as well.  The greatest need is resources, both human and material. 

U of N is in the developmental stages of a Master Plan.  The details of our consulting/marketing role will be developed by our board of directors when we return. It’s our hope we will give them a better framework in which to plot this plan.

Also, we have had meetings with the leadership of Mokuaikaua Church.  CAB will play a consulting and marketing role to help them prepare this historic building for their 200th year celebration in 2020.  The official timeline will start in 2015, during the kickoff-celebration for 195 years.  On April 2^nd the celebration will begin, and then come to a crescendo April 4^th, when the streets will be closed off and gospel music will fill the streets.

On April 4^th 1820 the first missionaries arrived in the bay at Kailua/Kona.  A Hawaiian prophet had prophesized this very arrival and that God would be revealed from the contents in a black wooden box.  This is exactly what happened as this black box contained the Bible.   Mokuaikaua was the first established church in the Hawaiian Islands.  Nearly all Hawaiians became Christians very quickly. 

God’s move to replace the Kapu system of religion, that included torturous and brutal human sacrifice, should strike the strings of every Christian heart.  From King Kamehameha’s  favorite wife Queen Kaahumanu (left to rule in place of their son whom was too young) who ended the torturous Kapu religion, to the Thaddeus II’s arrival, and the miraculous story of Henry Opukahaia, the Hawaiian who attended Yale University some years earlier, sharing his vision to send missionaries before he passed unexpectedly of a disease, this is an epic story of the move of God’s Spirit to lovingly save the Hawaiian people.

More to follow later… “May God, the source of hope, fill you with joy and peace through your faith in him.”