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Christian Gap Year Program · Oahu, Hawaii

Find your calling in this Christian gap year program

Between graduation and your next step, spend 14 weeks on Oahu’s North Shore growing a faith you own, serving people who need it, and finding out what God made you for.

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Revolution Hawaii and Camp Homelani are programs of The Salvation Army.

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A Gap Year With Purpose

What a Christian gap year looks like here

A Christian gap year at Revolution Hawaii is a structured, full-time season between high school and college. For 14 weeks you live at Camp Homelani on Oahu’s North Shore, study the Bible every day, train in evangelism and servant leadership, and serve Hawaii’s homeless communities and at-risk youth, with surfing, hiking and snorkeling woven through the weeks. It runs as our Discipleship Training School.

A gap year is a year on purpose.

A Revolution Hawaii student on Oahu

What You Come Home With

What a gap year at Revolution Hawaii gives you

A Clear Next Step

You head to college, work or ministry knowing why, because you spent 14 weeks asking God first.

A Faith You Own

Daily Bible study and teaching turn the faith you grew up with into one you chose for yourself.

Real Service

You serve real people in real need across Hawaii, every single week.

Friends For Life

A cohort of young adults from around the world, living and serving side by side.

Life Skills

Community living, simple living and servant leadership: skills that serve you in any dorm or workplace.

Island Adventure

Surf, paddle board, snorkel and hike Oahu’s North Shore between training blocks.

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The Decision

Should you take a gap year?

The pressure to pick

A major, a school, a career: everyone wants an answer by graduation. You want the right answer.

The faith that’s still borrowed

You grew up in church. Now you want to know what you believe when it’s yours to carry.

The window that’s open now

Right after high school is the easiest time to step away for a season. Later, life fills in around you.

Fourteen weeks now can steady the next forty years.

Gap Year Cost

What a Christian gap year costs

The full 14 weeks costs $8,000. The Salvation Army awards a $5,000 grant to qualified participants, and our team helps you fundraise the remainder. Once you arrive, food, housing, books and team activity fees are covered, so your gap year budget is your flight and your fundraising.

  • Full program: $8,000
  • $5,000 Salvation Army grant for qualified participants
  • Food, housing, books and activities covered on Oahu
  • Help fundraising the remainder
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A Revolution Hawaii gap year cohort on the beach

Plan Your Gap Year

Your gap year in three steps

1

Apply this semester

Apply online while you finish school. Applications are reviewed as they arrive.

2

Start in September or January

Pick the cohort that fits your plans and fly to Oahu’s North Shore.

3

Head to your next step

Fourteen weeks later, start college, work or ministry with a faith and a direction of your own.

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For Parents

What parents want to know

Sending your graduate to Hawaii for a season is a big decision. Here is who stands behind the program and how the days are structured.

  • Revolution Hawaii is a program of The Salvation Army, running since 2006.
  • Students live at Camp Homelani, a Salvation Army camp serving Hawaii families since 1947.
  • Camp directors lead the program in person, on site.
  • Every day is structured around Bible study, prayer, teaching and service.
  • Food, housing, books and team activity fees are covered on Oahu.
A beachside cabin at Camp Homelani
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“15 years ago I left home to be here, and right away I knew God had a different calling on my life than I realized. Because of what I learned, I’m still following the Lord. Since then, God has given me an adventure, a calling, a wife, and 2 adopted kids—right here in Hawaii. Hang on to your board shorts - it’s gonna be a wild ride”

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Gap Year Questions

Christian gap year questions

A Christian gap year program is a structured season of faith, service and growth taken between high school and college. Revolution Hawaii’s runs 14 weeks on Oahu’s North Shore and combines daily Bible study, evangelism training, outreach and island life.

For a graduate who wants to start college with a settled faith and a clear sense of direction, a focused 14-week season can be the best first step. It is a defined season with a start date, an end date and a purpose.

The program is 14 weeks, so a September or January start still leaves room for your next term. If you have already been accepted, ask your college about its deferral policy before you apply.

The full program is $8,000. Qualified participants receive a $5,000 Salvation Army grant, we help you fundraise the remainder, and food, housing, books and activities are covered on Oahu.

Motivated Christian young adults ages 18–25, most often recent high school graduates deciding what comes next.

You live and serve on Oahu’s North Shore, where real need sits next to real beauty. Oahu is home to about a million people on 597 square miles and ships in about 90% of its food, so island life is costly for many families. You serve neighbors in need every week, with surfing, hiking and Hawaiian culture woven through.

Oahu is one of the most expensive places in the country, but your food, housing, books and team activity fees are covered once you arrive. The program is $8,000, with a $5,000 Salvation Army grant for qualified participants and help fundraising the rest.

How the sugar plantations brought families from around the world, how their children turned Pidgin into a language, and why so many Oahu families share multigenerational homes. You learn the island as you serve it.

Yes. Call 808-427-3298 and we will walk you through the program.

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September & January Cohorts

Make your gap year count

A gap year on purpose: 14 weeks of faith, service and adventure on Oahu, then your next step with a direction of your own. Start the application today.

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The entire application is fully online. It takes minutes.

P.S. The whole application is online and takes minutes. Cohorts close when they fill.