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Mission to prisons helped our incarcerated residents

Together again in prayer, I recall those who were behind bars with me all those years since 1984. States that held our Hawaii island residents all those years my husband and I traveled to visit were welcoming to us. All their generations of life embraced us with appreciation and prayers. We were honored at every facility, as Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arizona, Kentucky and Colorado with letters and comments from volunteers and employees, as well as residents.

Our mission to target their lifestyles and a support system on exiting helped most of them to avoid the traps of falling back into crime. Many volunteers in the community also started the Going Home Hawaii first, then the Maui Coming Home, and then all with Oahu’s Pu’a Foundation encouraged Kauai volunteers this past year.

Today, volunteers from several churches rescue families of those who have fallen and who admit they need help to overcome selfish and fearful temptations.

“Faithfulness is rewarded,” says the Lord, for those who overcome and who enter the joy of the Lord. — Matthew 25: 21.

Henrietta Pua Hashimoto

Wailuku

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