Waipahu Town

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Vividly, it was a treat remembering my first visit to Waipahu. It was on a Sunday and my family was attending the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on the corner of Farrington Highway and Kahualii Street. 

At the end of the church service, I learned that other ethnicities such as Filipino, Hawaiian, Caucasian, Tongan, and Marshallese are utilizing the same building to do their worship on a scheduled timeframe. Each congregation was called Ward. Although I was attending the church service in the Tongan Ward, I experienced three things that were unique to me at that time - Welcomeness, Security, and Belonging! 

• We need to do something to care for our homelessness brothers and sisters 
• We need to do something to resolve congested street parking
• We need to do something for some of our roads that are not being constructed with sidewalks
• We need to do something to increase affordable housing for our people
• We need to do something to ensure affordable homes for our children 
• We need to do something to decrease neighborhood crimes
• We need to do something to provide our students with after-school Internet accessibility
• We need to do something for the public safety of our first responders
• We need to do something for our students' safety while crosswalk in the morning and after school
• We need to do something to ensure that the round about concept on the four-way stop intersection is implemented  
• We need to do something to ensure more frequent schedules for picking up bulk trash items
• We need to do something to improve the quality of our shopping centers' parking lots 

Waipahu is populated with a lot of people that believe in God. There are many churches of different beliefs located around Waipahu.