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After many, many, many, and many years of having church services in school cafeterias, the International Christian Ministries finally found a home even just temporarily. While the church conducted services in Waialua Elementary School and August Ahrens Elementary school for the past years, the youth group conducted their activities in church members’ homes and sometimes at various parks in Central Oahu. It became very challenging for the youth leaders to coordinate the Friday night services. Setting up before each Sunday service was no simple matter also. On Sunday mornings, Brother Ronald and Brother Noel would pack the church instruments in Brother Noel’s truck then set them up in the cafeteria. While Brother Ronald operate the sound system during church service, Brother Noel would play guitar and sing (or pretend to sing) with the worship team. After the service, they would again pack and unload the instruments back to Brother Noel’s garage. At times it got discouraging but Brother Ronald and Brother Noel say, “You just have to keep pushing, or as we say it in the Army, ‘Suck it up and Drive On!’.”
Through the leadership of Brother Nathan and Brother Efren, International Christian Church’s new place was prepared in time for the first church service. The idea of having a permanent place of worship was a strong driving force in the unity of members helping together to prepare the new place. A sense of joy is just apparent in the members’ faces. The youth group is very much also enjoying the new place, probably much more than the adults. They have not only started conducting their youth activities at the new place on Friday nights, they have also started hanging out after Friday night services and after Saturday praise and worship practices.