Sunday was an amazing day! Pastor Wayne Cordeiro invited the visiting pastors to his church conference in Hawaii to join him in baptizing new believers. So, we joined together with the New Hope church family at Ala Moana Park near Waikiki Beach on the island of Oahu as they baptized over 150 candidates.
Their church is so much like WCC (except instead of blue grass and barbeque, they have hula and poo poo). They are 12 years old and meet in rented facilities. They rent office space during the week and a high school for their weekend services. When they do a baptism, they do it in public and afterwards they have a covered dish meal together.
They have five weekend services. Two on Saturday night and three on Sunday morning. Their volunteers come in on Friday night and start setting up for the weekend. Over 10,000 people attend every weekend. It takes 1500 volunteers every weekend to set-up, serve, and tear-down.
Certainly the highlight for me was getting to baptize an Asian family. They found the peace of Christ as they followed Him in obedience.
Peace in the Pacific.