As they say, a little community service goes along way.

Here in Hawaii it is very common that churches meet in schools, actually most churches do meet in the schools here - elementary, high school and even at the community colleges.  YES, churches actually meet inside the public school buildings on weekends.  It's quite a shock for some people to find that out.  Land is at a premium out here and if a church was able to find some land to purchase more than likely the price would be too high...we are talking millions for a shoebox piece of land. 

The schools actually work well with the churches out here.  It's kind of a you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours kind of thing. 

Today we, a few of the homeschool families in our church, went and hid some easter eggs for their hunts later this afternoon at the school where we meet.   It was very interesting going in during their school hours doing last minute counting of eggs and having the children hid them.  We hid over 1500 eggs today for all the classes PreK thru 5th grade.   All the teachers were very nice and very appreciative that we would actually take the time to do that for them.

We were even able to start our service off with a circle of prayer right in front of the school ON the school grounds!   No one cares!  That's the Aloha Spirit....and the HOLY Spirit working together in this little place I call Paradise... 

Aloha!