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Recent wildfires in Maui have destroyed 3,000 homes and businesses, making an already serious homelessness problem worse.  Maui Rescue Mission has been serving the unhoused community in Maui for seven years and hopes to bring on more staff to...

"Before the wildfire, Sean Brown and Ben Henrie would park their colorful hygiene trailer outside Lahaina Baptist Church for four hours each week, providing shower and laundry facilities for dozens of homeless people. After the historic town that had been their most...

"...Kanani Adolpho...helped get the shower from non-profit Maui Rescue Mission parked in the area for the first time Wednesday... Maui Rescue Mission is still deciding when to make the shower available. They typically serve the homeless – but are offering the trailer...

"...Scott Hansen, executive director of Maui Rescue Mission, has more short-term consideration in mind. At the Lahaina Gateway shopping center, Hansen stood outside a small trailer housing a shower and laundry, holding the door closed for someone bathing inside. He’s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-r5irf8Jj0 Organizations are working to provide supplies, shelter and medical care to those affected by the deadly fires on Hawaii's island of Maui. Lauren Wittel, a communications consultant with the Maui Rescue Mission, explains how...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ynYEMQU8xg WATCH FULL INTERVIEW HERE. "Maui Rescue Mission is not able to access western Maui because it is 'completely cut off from communication and power,' according to Lauren Henrie, a communications consultant for the hyperlocal...

There’s a hub in Lahaina, where a corps of hands have joined together for the good of us all. The gathering place is at 520 Wainee St., in the parking lot next to Lahaina Baptist Church. It’s a flurry of activity, a resource center for the West Side needy, with hot...

Brian Nelson, co-founder and board chair of the Maui Rescue Mission (MRM), has brought a new and complete mobile resource center to Lahaina and the island. Having worked with over 75 rescue ministry projects across the U.S., Canada and Jamaica, Nelson has the...