Valley Isle FellowshipLove God, Love His Church, Love His World1033 Waiale Road - PO Box 886Wailuku, HI 96793 Phone: (808) 244-0865 Fax: (808)249-0235

IN THIS ISSUE:

1 With Much Love, Thank You !!! 2,3 The Woodiesʻ Whereabouts 4,5 Announcements 6 Missional Opportunities 7 VIF Calendar 8 Sermon Notes

NEWSLETTERAugust 5, 2018 www.vifmaui.com

With Much Love, Thank You !!!Pastor Stephen Kaneshiro

you to glorify Him in greater ways.

In the weeks and months ahead, I will be working with VIF’s lead-ership to try and revitalize and strengthen existing ministries and to continue to press us all on to a discipleship that fully encompasses a deeper and fuller love and obe-dience to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

You have lovingly and graciously given me the time to get reconnected and refreshed with my Lord and I pray that you will all reap the benefits of having a pastor who has recommitted himself to the Lord through Valley Isle Fellowship. I will be demanding much of myself, but I will be encouraging all of you to give much of yourselves to the Lord as well. My deepest desire is that you will bring nothing but glory and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ in all that you think, do, and say.

Once again, I want to say thank you! I want to also ask that you join with me in seeking to bring glory and honor to Jesus Christ through our per-sonal lives and through our cooperative life in and through Valley Isle Fellowship. May the Lord bless us all as we strive to love and obey Him!

It is with a heart full of love and gratitude that I want to say to all of you in Valley Isle Fellowship, “Thank you very much!” These last three months of rest, re-cuperation, and rejuvenation have been very good for me. Your love, support, and especially your prayers for Clarice and I during this extended leave meant so much to us. So once again, I want to express my deepest gratitude to all of you.

My health is doing so much better than when I started this leave. Therefore, I am feel-ing better and I am taking steps to live a healthier life style. A better diet and a more active regime of walking are helping to keep me in a better physical

state. There has been a change in medication and a reinstatement of a CPAP machine to help me with my sleep apnea.

Clarice and I were able to take a trip to the Dallas, TX area to attend the Southern Baptist Convention and also to visit with Jeremy, Amy, Grayson, and Ava. We were also able to go to Hilo and visit with friends, In Christ Alone and with family. These three months have been enjoyable and productive in many ways.

Most importantly, I took the time to reconnect with my Lord. In my quiet times, I discovered that I was really experiencing “burn-out”. Because of this, I was also seeking the Lord’s permission to retire. However, the Lord impressed upon me that my work is not finished and I will have to continue to minister and serve Him until He brings it to an end or you (the people of Valley Isle Fellowship) have had enough of me and ask me to leave. The Lord made it very clear that if I want to be loving and obedient unto Him, then I would have to submit to His desires and lead

Thunder shook the valley we were hiking in as I (Rachael) asked the question I had been wondering for months, “So how have you been spiritually?” “It’s been kinda hard,” replied Brandi, “I haven’t been around other Christians for a long time. But do you remember those two circle diagrams you showed me? The one where either Christ is on the throne or I am?” “Yeah, I remember,” I said. “Yeah, well I tried to think about that a lot this past year since I’ve been gone and it’s helped.” “That’s great!” I said enthusias-tically, excited that Brandi had remembered and applied things we had gone over when I discipled her.

You may remember a student named Brandi who I had the privilege of leading to Christ back in 2016. I got to disciple her that whole school year, but she was not able to return to school in 2017. We kept in touch a bit over the phone and I continued to go through our discipleship packet with her. But then I couldn’t get a hold of her since January. Last week I received a text from Brandi saying that she was back living and working in Durango. Excitedly I asked if she wanted to hike and catch up.

As I picked her up to hike the ominous grey sky let lose a barrage of rain and thunder. We decided to brave the elements and hike anyways. As we talked I learned that she had also been reading some devo-tionals as well as applying things from our previous discipleship.

Please pray for Brandi as she continues to work in Durango in the hopes of being able to return to Fort Lewis College (FLC) once she becomes more established, and that she would be able to grow spiritu-ally. We praise God for how He continues to grow the seeds that we have the privilege of sowing!

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We just finished our annual Master Plan Ministries’ (MPM) Directors & Staff Conferences. We celebrat-ed MPM’s founders’ (Russ & Linda Akins) 50 years of ministry at the conference. They are both still going strong in serving the Lord and are a big encouragement to us all! The conferences were a refreshing time to prepare for the upcoming school year, connect with God & our coworkers, receive training, and be reminded of our vision and goal to prepare others to reach & influence the world for Christ. We were reminded of Mark 8:34-35

“Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he [Jesus] said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.”

Sometimes we find ourselves trying to “hang on to” our lives by living for ourselves and our own plea-sures. Though this might satisfy temporarily, following Christ is much more fulfilling both now and eternally. It takes intentional perseverance to keep our eyes on what really matters.

We are excited for many things this upcoming year, including the 4 student leaders that are eager to step up and help us more this year: Daniel, Michael, Marin, and Martha. This month we all talked and they are excited to reach other FLC students for the Lord this year!

Praise & Prayer: I thank God for many of your condolences in losing my grandparents, and praise God for provid-ing a place for us to rent last week! Please pray for us as we prepare for the school year, meet new students, and for the returning students to have a heart to follow Christ. Also, for us to have a continuing deep foundation on God and His Word and to follow Christ in every area.Thank you!

Rachael and Dakota

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Durango, CO 81302

Announcements

For more information contact Pam Edwards 808-446-4009

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Church Cleaning Schedule

Week of August 9-11Team 4

Wendy I, Lynette K, Priscilla T*, Jennifer R, Paul R

Week of August 16-18Team 5

Carol Sn, Makanani C, Josie Y*, Andy Sn, Steffen Y

Week of August 23-25Team 6

Hubert I*, Leslie T, Ernie P, David P, Chad K,

Week of August 31-Sept. 1Team 1

Yeiko E, Elaine Y, Teri C, Cecile H, Cathy D, Kenneth K, Lucille K*

*Key Monitor

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Childcare Ministry Schedule

Today Aug 5 Team 2: Wendy C, Christine B, Vija B, Lauryn I Aug 12 Team 3: Francis C, Jaydee G, Jules G, Char C, Wayne S, Haua D. Aug 19 Team 4: Hawea R, Cheeng S, Jezra S, Joanne R. Aug. 26 Team 1: Karen F, Kolbe F, Alysha F, Melanie F

List of Services in Church

1.Ushers: Seat people, Offering & Tithes, Lord’s Supper.

2.Greeters: Great people, pass out newsletter.

3.Hospitality: Coffee ministry, purchase & restocking paper products and bathroom supplies.

4.Sound team: Sound technicians.

5.Music Team: Musicians & singers.

6.Buildings and Landscaping team: Water grounds, Mow lawn, weed whack, trimming, weed kill. Mainte-nance of building.

7.Cleaning teams: Cleaning of Worship Center, bath-rooms & lanais.

8.Children’s ministry Team: Teachers to teach age re-lated classes, childcare.

9.Youth Ministry Team: Adult men and women to teach our youth.

10.Announcements team: Events or news.

11.Computer and PP team: Managing and input PP songs and sermons, learning and using new software.

12.Cameramen: Video service and take pictures at events, upload to website.

13.Website team: Maintain and update website.

14.SG Team Leaders: Disciple and lead a small group.

You may contact the church office for more information at (808) 244-0865

MISSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

NAMB Missionary Spotlight:

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Utah is believed to be only two percent evangelical Christian and 75 persent Mormon. Pray for open doors to preach the gospel, for new members, for the commitment of the church and for God to raise up new leaders.

Salt Lake City, UT

“Please ask God to protect our planters and their families from the rampant spiritual warfare present in our area.”

2,462,849 people live in Salt Lake City

20.8% are unaffiliated with any religious body

2.3% are affiliated with an evangelical church

1 SBC church for every 41,743 Salt Lake City residents

PrayerConnect Connect with missionaries and chaplains by praying for them

and their work, either through specific ministry prayer requests or on their birthdays.

Silas Kung08 01 2018 | San Diego, CASilas Kung is the church planter/pastor of Agape Myanmar Mission in San Diego, Calif. First, praise the Lord for our third son, who was born safely on June 20, 2018. Second, please pray for God’s provision fi-nancially as I am raising my own support to plant the church among the Burmese refugee families in San Diego. Third, please pray for salvation of the follow-ing families: Soe Thawi, Daw Ko Meh, Law Meh, Bu Reh, Da Meh, Nyi Lin Aung, Aye Ma Win, Ko Sai, Mu-hamad, Sha Meh.

Jim Britts08 01 2018 | Oceanside, CAJim Britts is the lead pastor/planter of Parkside Church in Oceanside, Calif. Please pray the following for our ministry: For a permanent location in the area we are reaching. Planting Parkside Espanol Growing our church planter pipeline For God to give us and the other churches in our city the ability to penetrate lost-ness by an additional 1%. (that would work out to about 2.500 new disciples this year) For balance with my wife (Rachel) and kids, Jadon (8), Jordyn (5) and Josie (4)

International Mission BoardConnecting in Prayer

https://www.imb.org/pray/

*Isolated Peoples of the Amazon Basin-“After two days of trying to flush out the debris, the existing well was determined to be unusable without a major finan-cial investment. As the saying goes, ‘agua es la vida’ (water is life). Pray for wisdom in knowing whether to invest more time and resources in the current well or else to dig another one. All agriculture projects are at a standstill until we have access to water. These agricul-tural projects will allow the indigenous missionaries to be self-sustaining and send more missionaries out to the peoples of the Amazon basin.”

*Bangladesh-When it rains, it pours. In Bangladesh, the monsoon season takes place from June to October, a time when 80 percent of the country’s rainfall occurs. During this season, many low-lying areas are flooded, homes are lost, landslides occur, and crops are destroyed due to the amount of precipitation. In 2017, Bangladesh experienced the worst flooding it had seen in 200 years. Each year, Bangladeshi pastors and evangelists are mo-bilized to provide flood relief in the form of food, water purification tablets, basic medical supplies, and cloth-ing. Please pray that through this disaster, believers will be bold to share the gospel, churches will be planted, and lives will be saved.

Valley Isle Fellowship Calendar

August 2018 1 6:30 pm - Youth Night 3 5:00 pm - MOvinG Men of God Menʻs Ministry 5 9:00 am- Worship Service 10:30 am - Sunday School 6:00 pm - Evening Service/Study 6 6:30 pm - Prayer Meeting 8 6:30 pm - Youth Night 12 9:00 am- Worship Service 10:30 am - Sunday School 12:00 pm - Trustees Meeting 6:00 pm - Evening Service/Study 13 6:30 pm - Prayer Meeting 15 6:30 pm - Youth Night 17 Statehood Day -Office closed 19 9:00 am- Worship Service 10:30 am - Sunday School 6:00 pm - Evening Service/Study

20 6:30 pm - Prayer Meeting 22 6:30 pm - Youth Night 26 9:00 am- Worship Service 10:30 am - Sunday School 6:00 pm - Evening Service/Study 27 6:30 pm - Prayer Meeting 29 6:30 pm - Youth Night

September 2018 2 9:00 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Sunday School 6:00 pm - Evening Service/Study 3 6:30 pm - Prayer Meeting-Cancelled - Labor Day Holiday Office closed 5 6:30 pm - Youth Night 7 5:00 pm - MOvinG Men of God Menʻs Ministry 9 9:00 am- Worship Service 10:30 am - Sunday School 12:00 pm - Trustees Meeting

Valley Isle Fellowship1033 Waiale Rd., PO Box 886, Wailuku, HI 96793

ph: (808) 244-0865 - vifoffice@vifmauihawaii.com - www.vifmaui.com

SUNDAY MORNINGSERVICE

Worship Service - 9:00 am

Sunday School - 10:30 am* * * * *

SUNDAY EVENINGSERVICE

Worship/Study6:00 pm

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@VIFMaui

Associate PastorDarren Sarmiento

cell: (808)757-1651email: darrens@vifmauihawaii.com

Senior PastorStephen Kaneshirocell: (808)419-8100

email: icastephen@gmail.com

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Coffee Bar MinistryCome and fellowship

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Whose Sin is Responsible?Pastor Stephen Kaneshiro

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John 9:1-41 NLT

I. The ____________ and the _______________. - John 9:1-5 NLT

A. Explaining ______ _______ and/or _____________.

B. ___________ depends on which ___________.

C. __________ but _________________ choice.

II. The ____________ and the _________. - John 9:6-34 NLT

A. __________the miracle.

B. _________ fault.

C. ___________ Jesus and His followers.

III. ______________ or _______________ Jesus. - John 9:35-41

A. Jesus takes the _______________ in meeting our needs.

B. Jesus ______________ our belief.

C. Jesus _____________.