{"id":1623,"date":"2018-06-30T23:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2018-07-24T03:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T13:52:15","slug":"sacred-heart-shelter-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/sacred-heart-shelter-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Heart Shelter Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">NEW HOMES INSPIRE NEW HOPE IN PUNA<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Yes, this eruption destroyed a lot of things, but this eruption also brought Puna together.<\/em> ~Harry Kim, Hawaii County Mayor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dozens of community partners and volunteers from public, private and government agencies gathered together on Saturday June 30, 2018 to bless the opening of the <strong>Sacred Heart Shelter,<\/strong> a newly-constructed community of 20 micro-homes dedicated to provide temporary housing for lava evacuees in need. Despite the many stories of loss due to Mount Kilauea&#8217;s continued eruptions, the new homes are inspiring new hope in Puna.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpex-responsive-media\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5GJDFiX08SQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It takes a community &#8230; and look what happened &#8212; in less than 30 days, one vision in one leadership team &#8212; THIS HAPPENED!<\/em> ~Brandee Menino\/CEO, HOPE Services Hawaii<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\">It literally\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"text-align: center;\">took a village<\/em><span style=\"text-align: center;\"> to build this special village! Community organizers, state and county leaders, volunteers, contractors, painters, designers, funders, soldiers from the <strong>Hawaii Army National Guard,\u00a0<\/strong>and dozens of businesses came together to\u00a0celebrate the unprecedented and historic collaboration of multiple entities accomplishing a single purpose on catholic property owned by the <strong>Diocese of Honolulu<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><strong>Governor David Ige<\/strong>, <strong>Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard <\/strong>and<strong> Brigadier General Kenneth Hara\u00a0<\/strong><strong>were among the many dignitaries\u00a0<\/strong>in attendance.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hawaii people can be described simply as . . . &#8220;Generous, Heart, Fo&#8217; Real!&#8221;<\/em> ~Carol Ignacio, Community Advocate<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Carol Ignacio,<\/strong> a volunteer board member of HOPE Services Hawaii and <strong>former Executive Director of the Diocese of Honolulu Office for Social Ministry (OSM),<\/strong> was also present to witness one of her long-term dreams come true. In 2011, Ignacio spearheaded the concept of recycling old structures from a former transitional shelter operated by <strong>Catholic Charities Hawaii<\/strong> in Kawaihae and rebuilding them into affordable housing units for kupuna on the <strong>Sacred Heart Pahoa Parish<\/strong> grounds. The initial strategy was to plant the seeds needed to make an impact on the homeless and affordable housing crisis on Hawaii island. Although it took 7 years to grow the vineyard of laborers and community partners,\u00a0Ignacio&#8217;s dream has finally become a reality!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rev. Robert Stark,<\/strong> current <strong>OSM Director<\/strong>, likened the <strong>Sacred Heart Shelter<\/strong> to Jesus&#8217;s parable of the multiplication of fish and loaves. He says it is amazing to see people follow in the footsteps of <strong>Saints Damien and Marianne<\/strong> by &#8220;recognizing their own vulnerabilities and still having the capacity and compassion to help the most vulnerable in our midst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>May God bless all those who continue to work behind the scenes to help those most in need!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.<\/em>\u00a0~Ephesians 3:20<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW HOMES INSPIRE NEW HOPE IN PUNA Yes, this eruption destroyed a lot of things, but this eruption also brought Puna together. ~Harry Kim, Hawaii County Mayor Dozens of community&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[90,89,91,61,86,94,87,28,88,92,83,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}