{"id":87,"date":"2010-11-01T07:59:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T17:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/?p=87"},"modified":"2016-09-21T00:08:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T00:08:36","slug":"debbie_kaeo_-_parish_ministry_coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officeforsocialministry.org\/debbie_kaeo_-_parish_ministry_coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Debbie Kaeo, Outreach Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ready to help those in need\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Debbie Kaeo served the Nanakuli community with great love and care for many years.\u00a0 As the social ministry leader of St. Rita Church, Debbie\u2019s aloha was unending – she was a Hawaiian with a big loving Hawaiian heart!\u00a0 Food Pantry coordinator, Receptionist, stand in Administrator, Debbie led by example and embodied the Christian values of unconditional love of neighbor!<\/p>\n

This little rural parish, St. Rita, is a small parish known for its Hiki No (Can Do) spirit and one that \u201cwalks its talk \u201c and Debbie was an outstanding example of this.\u00a0 St. Rita\u2019s parish mission states:<\/p>\n

\u201c In the spirit of Aloha, we respond to Christ\u2019s mission of love and freedom with our care, concern and communal action. This is expressed in the stewardship of our treasure through tithing and in the gift of our time and talents through shared ministries. As a fast growing rural parish with a large Hawaiian population, we feel a special calling to stand together in truth and justice for the rights of the first people (kanaka maoli) of this land. As part of the universal Church, our outreach extends beyond our boundaries to the global community and we affirm the human dignity of all peoples.\u00a0 As a parish family, we enthusiastically participate in bringing about God\u2019s reign of peace. <\/i>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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St. Rita Parish, Nanakuli, Oahu<\/figcaption><\/figure> Debbie and her husband Bernard, along with their prayer group, established the ever popular Reverse Potluck at St. Rita Nanakuli .\u00a0 Once a month, members prepared a special dish and the staff would prepare the rice, salad and punch.\u00a0 It was called \u201creversed potluck\u201d because parishioners brought and served all the food to the homeless.\u00a0 Whatever was left was always packed up and sent with the people.\u00a0 Before the homeless camps at Nanakuli Beach Park were cleared away, the prayer group served an average of 145 people.\u00a0 Reverse Pot Luck has since grown to the point where different ministries at the parish (Liturgy, Youth Ministry etc)\u00a0 take turns serving and rotating months.<\/p>\n