Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Aloha

Crew,

It's hard putting away something you love doing, but when God calls you on to pursue other works and things for you to concentrate on, you listen because He knows what is best, and that he'll take care of the hole in your heart as time goes by.

Thank you so much for the privilege, honor, and pleasure of serving you for four years as the e-mail list keeper, and web/blog guy. We've tried to keep it light, interesting, and as streamlined as possible so that it would always be "kanu klub news you can use for all of yous."

Thank you for the many contributors who have joined in this push to keep you informed and entertained at the same time such as photographers George Hom and Joel Olegario, just to name a few. Mahalo guys.

Honestly, I really don't know when a blog is shut down due to non-activity. There is a ton of photo links dating back to 2007, which we hope you will revisit soon should you desire to have photos and/or my graphic work which all belongs to our beloved canoe club and you.

I'll check in on the blog from time to time, perhaps that will help keep it in cyber perpetuity, or not...

Most of all, thank you Colleen, my beautiful wife.

I met and fell in love with you during the 2004 paddling season, and you have been the inspiration for me to find and share God through my camera's lenses, pen, brush, and computer keyboard. Thank you Co, I love you.

Thank you Jesus for all you have done for me, and for all of the extraordinary people I have met in and outside of the New Hope Canoe Club along the way since 2003.

On behalf of the New Hope Canoe Club Cyber Kanu Web Crew Class of 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, Uncle Hut, Kaptain Kaneohe, and myself,

GodSpeed!

Your Friend,

Byron

P.S. For those of you who would like to tag along and pick up some kanu klub news you can use (and muse) for all of yous, FB me at facebook.com/kaptain.kaneohe

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

"Watch This Year's Moloka'i Hoe Live!"

http://molokaihoe.org/Default.asp

"L & L"

Welcome Home Larry!

Back from Iraq.

Congratulations Lono!

Grandpa Goo.

Thank you Jesus!

For fine men such as these.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Sunday, October 4, 2009

"Festivals of Aloha"

Thu Oct 08 @06:30PM - 10:00PM Molokai Investiture and Kupuna Show
Fri Oct 09 @06:30PM - 10:00PM Molokai, Festivals of Aloha, Youth Night
Sat Oct 10 @09:00AM - Molokai, Parade and Hoolaulea

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009

2009 E Lau Hoe NHCC Photos

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"E Lau Hoe Joy"

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

"Congratulations!"

Bringing Home The Silver

Wearing their silver medals all the way home from Kona, NHCC paddlers Arlene Iwano and Melissa Hill who were invited to jump in with the Keaukaha Canoe Club's 50 Masters Women's Crew (w/water changes) in the 38th Annual Queen Lili'uokalani Canoe Race captured 2nd place in their division.
Fun under a blistering sun.
Congrats to all of our NHCC kane and wahine paddlers on a job well done.

It's A Family Affair

NHCC Paddler Jennifer Gayle married Justin Moniz this past Sunday at Ko Olina. Both Jennifer and Justin's mums (Colleen Ballesteros Ono and Bernie Moniz) are long time NHCC paddlers too! Justin's sister Jiana (NHCC Na 'Opio paddler) served as one of Jennifer's bridesmaids.
Best wishes Mr. and Mrs. Justin and Jennifer Moniz!









Monday, August 31, 2009

"Ask Uncle Hut"


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

"Kailua Bay Iron Man Challenge Race Results"



"Make Your Free Paddling Photo Collage @ Walgreens Tomorrow"


"Kailua Canoe Club Ironman NHCC Photos From George Hom"



From: George Hom


God expressed His power of the wind and the waves at Kailua Beach this day.


Six brave crews started this race. Only five finished. Everyone returned safely.


God is faithful!


Congratulations to the 40 Men who finished in the top 10.


God bless you!




Thursday, August 20, 2009

"Come Worship The Son @ 96701" New Hope Aiea

Pastor (and our own New Hope Canoe Club paddler) John Tilton laid out "God's Plan" at New Hope Aiea's first of four church launch meetings which began this past Tuesday evening.

Join us next Tuesday night to hear Pastor Rod Shimabukuro speak on "Developing Servant Leaders."

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

"Duke Race Photo Collage"


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Monday, August 17, 2009

"Race News Coverage"

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090817/SPORTS13/908170333/Outrigger+Canoe+Club+continues+solid+ride

All Canoes/Pos. #/Club/Category/Time

1 14 Outrigger Open 2:48:50
2 80 Team Primo Open 2:49:23
3 9 Hui Lanakila Open 2:51:46
4 1 Lanikai Open 2:53:57
5 10 Hui Lanakila Open 2:58:14
6 6 Kailua Open 3:01:07
7 8 Imua Open 3:03:16
8 4 Healani Open 3:04:49
9 17 Waikiki Beach Boys Open 3:05:11
10 72 Leeward Kai Open 3:08:29
11 5 Kailua Open 3:10:48
12 3 Lanikai Open 3:12:06
13 12 Hui Lanakila Open 3:14:43
14 27 Kailua 50’s 3:16:47
15 11 Hui Nalu 40’s 3:16:55
16 15 Outrigger Open 3:17:23
17 13 Hui Lanakila Open 3:18:02
18 2 Lanikai Open 3:20:53
19 51 Keahiakahoe 55’s 3:21:05
20 24 Anuenue 40’s 3:24:41
21 22 Waikiki Beach Boys Open 3:26:07
22 58 Healani Open 3:26:49
23 21 Waikiki Beach Boys Open 3:28:08
24 52 Waikiki Surf Club Open 3:30:52
25 54 New Hope Open 3:32:59
26 25 Anuenue Open 3:33:58
27 16 Outrigger Open 3:34:43
28 59 Healani Open 3:34:57
29 55 Lokahi Open 3:35:43
30 50 Lanikai Open 3:36:05
31 70 Kailua 40’s 3:37:04
32 65 Kailua Open 3:38:34
33 75 Honolulu Pearl Open 3:40:55
34 23 Hui Nalu Open 3:41:48
35 74 Kailua Open 3:50:12
36 78 Kamamalahoe Open 3:50:15
37 69 Kai Oni Open 3:51:32
38 71 Outrigger 55’s 3:57:27
39 56 Lokahi Open 3:59:27
40 53 New Hope Open 4:02:50
41 73 Waikiki Yacht Club Open 4:05:09
42 63 Waimanalo 40’s DNF

Looking for wahine results. If you know the link please share. Mahalo!

"Duke Kahanamoku NHCC Photos From George Hom"

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090816/BREAKING02/90816032/Outrigger+captures+Duke+Kahanamoku+Long+Distance+paddling+race

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=2QauWLVq4Ysps&emid=sharview&linkid=link5&cid=EMsharview

"Scene-stealing Canadian squirrel crashes NHCC paddling crew photo"


"Duke Kahanamoku Race"


Thank you Lanikai Canoe Club for a great day of Hawaiian outrigger canoe racing for all to enjoy!

Friday, August 14, 2009

"Kauai Kanu"

Thursday, August 13, 2009

"NHCC Na Pali Challenge Photos Vol. III"


"Faith Like Potatoes"


Where There's Love, There's Hope

Friday, August 7, 2009

"On The Water - E Kaupe (Reach Out)"

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

"Calling All Women"

Aloha Paddlers,

Just wanted to share with you some upcoming events with the Women’s Ministry.

New Hope O'ahu Woman's Ministry is having our first ever Woman's Ministry Missions Brunch at the Lead Center, 290 Sand Island Road on Saturday, August 8! Our exciting guest speaker will be Darlene Cunningham, who, together with her husband Loren, founded Youth With a Mission (YWAM) over 30 years ago and has been involved in missions work ever since.

She'll be giving us miraculous reports about what God is doing around the world, and we'll hear testimonies from four inspiring missionaries. The cost for this delicious brunch and wonderful program is only $15. We'll also be taking an offering to bless our missionaries. Please don't miss this beautiful, uplifting morning.

Tomorrow, Thursday is the last day for registration. Please consider joining us by emailing Cheyanne, roxyann811@yahoo.com to save your spot.

http://www.enewhope.org/news/000500/index.php

You’ve been serving tirelessly and selflessly in ministry, are you looking for the next level? Would you like to find a place to hear the Word of God from a woman’s perspective? I strongly believe that we can continue to serve Him with excellence if we can find that safe place to learn to become more like Jesus. Women in the Word has successfully been bringing women closer to Him through the Tuesday evening studies. Please prayerfully consider joining us. This may be the opportunity to fulfill your discipleship needs.

Women in the Word Bible study begins Tuesday, August 11, 6:30 at the LEAD Center. Come and for the study and fellowship. No preregistration necessary.

This 7 week study is called “Snapshots of Jesus”

If you had a photo album, full of snapshots of Jesus, what would He look like? Cameras weren’t around when Jesus walked the earth, but for centuries, artists have painted Him, based on word-pictures given in the Bible.

For example, you might have seen a rendering of Jesus, carrying a lamb on His shoulders, since He called Himself “the Good Shepherd” and invites us to think of Him in that way. Perhaps you’ve seen a painting of Jesus with a glowing halo, carrying a lantern to light the darkness, inspired by His statement “I am the Light of the World.”

In this course, we’ll be studying six verbal “snapshots” of Jesus taken from the Scriptures. As we study each one, we want to focus on the reality behind the image and get to know Him better and allow Him to minister to us.

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

With you, serving Him,

arlene

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

"Take The Challenge"


Best wishes to our four New Hope Canoe Club paddling crews who will be competing in this Saturday's Na Pali Challenge on Kauai.

"Hearts for Jesus"

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Thursday, July 30, 2009

"Imagine Your Life without Fear by Max Lucado"

A strain of Asian flu is boarding flights out of China. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror. We fear being sued, finishing last, going broke; we fear the mole on the back, the new kid on the block, the sound of the clock as it ticks us closer to the grave. We sophisticate investment plans, create elaborate security systems, and legislate stronger military, yet we depend on mood-altering drugs more than any other generation in history.

Fear, it seems, has taken a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversize and rude, fear is unwilling to share the heart with happiness. Happiness complies. Do you ever see the two together? Can one be happy and afraid at the same time? Clear thinking and afraid? Confident and afraid? Merciful and afraid? No. Fear is the big bully in the high school hallway: brash, loud, and unproductive. For all the noise fear makes and room it takes, fear does little good.

“Jesus was sleeping” (v. 24 ncv).Now there’s a scene. The disciples scream; Jesus dreams. Thunder roars; Jesus snores. He doesn’t doze, catnap, or rest. He slumbers. Could you sleep at a time like this? Could you snooze during a roller coaster loop-the-loop? In a wind tunnel? At a kettledrum concert? Jesus sleeps through all three at once! Mark’s gospel adds two curious details: “[ Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on a pillow” (Mark 4:38). In the stern, on a pillow. Why the first? From whence came the second?

First-century fishermen used large, heavy seine nets for their work. They stored the nets in a nook that was built into the stern for this purpose. Sleeping upon the stern deck was impractical. It provided no space or protection. The small compartment beneath the stern, however, provided both. It was the most enclosed and only protected part of the boat. So Christ, a bit dozy from the day’s activities, crawled beneath the deck to get some sleep.

He rested his head, not on a fluffy feather pillow, but on a leather sandbag. A ballast bag. Mediterranean fishermen still use them. They weigh about a hundred pounds and are used to ballast, or stabilize, the boat. Did Jesus take the pillow to the stern so he could sleep, or sleep so soundly that someone rustled him up the pillow? We don’t know. But this much we do know. This was a premeditated slumber. He didn’t accidentally nod off. In full knowledge of the coming storm, Jesus decided it was siesta time, so he crawled into the corner, put his head on the pillow, and drifted into dreamland.

His snooze troubles the disciples. Matthew and Mark record their responses as three staccato Greek pronouncements and one question. The pronouncements: “Lord! Save! Dying!” (Matt. 8:25). The question: “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” (Mark 4:38). They do not ask about Jesus’ strength: “Can you still the storm?” His knowledge: “Are you aware of the storm?” Or his know-how: “Do you have any experience with storms?” But rather, they raise doubts about Jesus’ character: “Do you not care . . . ”Fear does this. Fear corrodes our confidence in God’s goodness. We begin to wonder if love lives in heaven. If God can sleep in our storms, if his eyes stay shut when our eyes grow wide, if he permits storms after we get on his boat, does he care?

Fear unleashes a swarm of doubts, anger-stirring doubts. And it turns us into control freaks. “Do something about the storm!” is the implicit demand of the question. “Fix it or . . . or . . . or else!” Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become. We growl and bare our fangs. Why? Because we are bad? In part. But also because we feel cornered.

Jesus takes our fears seriously. The one statement he made more than any other was this: don’t be afraid.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don’t invite it in for dinner, and for heaven’s sake don’t offer it a bed for the night. Let’s embolden our hearts with a select number of Jesus’ “do not fear” statements. Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.

"Congratulations & Best Wishes!"


Wednesday, July 29, 2009

"Mahalo Nui Loa"

Aloha!

A big mahalo from Lee and I to the whole club for your wonderful participation this past weekend with the 3 fundraising activities. The Koala Moa Chicken Sale this past Saturday from 7:00am to 2:30pm led by Lynn Akeo and Joanne Tano (1,467 chickens cooked!). Also on Saturday at 10:00am, 400 chicken plates were prepared for the "Spirit of Aloha" volunteers led by Arlene and Laurie with their team which included Pastor Rod's wife and Aaron's Kitchen at the Dole Cannery. Much mahalos! Coach Blane and Sam for helping to transfer equipment and the setting up at 3:00pm for the services at Farrington after leaving the Koala Moa site. And again the many paddlers that came that night to help to serve in the food booth. We shut down at 9:00pm that night. And lastly, all the help again on Sunday morning with the set up, serving and breakdown of the food booth during and after the 3 services were completed. People helped from 6:00am until 1:30pm. (450 plates sold) Excellent paddling outside of the canoe. It was encouraging and uplifting to see everyone having fun and working hard at the Koala Moa site. The racing that was going on under the chicken bagging tent was crazy. Still not sure who got Gold or Silver. The bonding and fellowship was heartwarming. The hospitality tent set up by Kehau Bishaw and the 50 women and our wonderful servant waitress in Janice Love who made sure that everyone had something to eat and drink throughout the day. The shuttling of workers coming in and leaving the site was stellar. Even the owners of the Koala Moa site were impressed and it gave them an idea of how to do things better at the site because of the parking and congestion problems. Mahalo again Laurie for making all of this possible. Finally, Uncle George Hom for being who you are and for all that you do for us to remind us of what's important and holding us all accountable to our mission statement. "Paddling with Him, and you, in His canoe!" ...Coaches Cy and Lee Kalama

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Monday, July 20, 2009

"Go NHCC Novice B Wahine!"

Congratulations and Best Wishes at the State Championships at Hilo Bay on Saturday, August 1st!

Photo by George Hom

"Hilo Or Bust!"


"Congratulations Kailua Canoe Club!"

New Hope Canoe Club's 40 Women racing to a 3rd Place Finish in the 2009 OHCRA Championships, and a berth in the HCRA State Championships at Hilo Bay on August 1st!


Congratulations to Kailua Canoe Club, winner of the 2009 OHCRA Championships, Ke'ehi Lagoon Beach Park, Sunday, July 19, 2009.


























OHCRA Championships Results

Photos & Message from George Hom
The Lord again blessed our canoe club with two third place finishes, (the Novice B Women and the 40 Women). In all, three crews (add the 55 Mix Masters) qualified to go to the HCRA Championships on August 1, 2009 in Hilo. Let's continue to embrace His joy in us as we end our regatta season and prepare for distance. God bless you!