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Missions Training · Oahu, Hawaii

Get real missions training when you join Revolution Hawaii today

Every Revolution Hawaii student trains in evangelism and serves across the islands during the 14-week DTS. Graduates then have the opportunity to apply for a summer short-term mission with The Salvation Army in Micronesia.

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

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How It Works

Missions training on Oahu

Missions training at Revolution Hawaii happens inside the 14-week Discipleship Training School. You learn practical and tactical evangelism and servant leadership in the classroom, then put it to work every week with Hawaii’s homeless communities and at-risk youth. Revolution Hawaii is an incarnational, hands-on ministry: short on talk and heavy on action.

The workers are few. The training starts here.

A Revolution Hawaii student on night outreach

What You Learn

A missionary training program you live

Evangelism Training

Practical and tactical evangelism, practiced on real streets with real conversations.

Servant Leadership

Leadership training built on serving first, the way Jesus led.

Homeless Ministry

Serve and build lasting relationships with Hawaii’s homeless communities.

Youth Ministry

Volunteer with programs for at-risk youth and learn to disciple the next generation.

Cross-Cultural Service

Engage with Hawaiian culture and learn to serve as a respectful guest in someone else’s home.

Community Living

Live in Christian community, the same way missionaries live and serve together on the field.

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Revolution Hawaii students serving in the Maui fire relief effort

Where You Serve

Short-term missions across Hawaii

During the 14 weeks you serve the poor, hurting, lost and marginalized across the islands, including when disaster strikes.

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Summer Short-Term Mission

Serve in Micronesia after your DTS

The Salvation Army opened its work in the Marshall Islands in 1985 and spread through Micronesia to Pohnpei, Chuuk, Kosrae, Saipan and Guam. These islands are breathtakingly beautiful and in deep need of the good news of Jesus. Each summer, graduates have the opportunity to apply. Those who go are prepared and sent out to live with, love and serve the poor, hurting, lost and marginalized, just like Jesus.

  • An opportunity open to graduates of the 14-week Revolution Hawaii program
  • $2,500 covers room, board and airfare from Hawaii
  • A summer deployment with The Salvation Army in Micronesia
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Revolution Hawaii graduates ready to serve

Your Path

From training to the mission field

1

Apply to the DTS

Apply online for the September or January cohort of the 14-week program.

2

Train and serve on Oahu

Learn evangelism and servant leadership and serve across Hawaii for 14 weeks.

3

Apply for a summer mission

As a graduate, you have the opportunity to apply for a summer short-term mission in Micronesia.

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Know Your Mission Field

Short term missions on Oahu, by the numbers

Missions training here happens in a real mission field. These are the neighbors you train among.

4,539

people were experiencing homelessness on Oahu at the January 2026 count, 802 of them children.

Partners In Care Point-in-Time Count, 2026
~1 in 2

people counted homeless on Oahu in 2024 identified as Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, about a tenth of the island’s population.

Partners In Care, 2024 count
30,000+

citizens of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau live in Hawaii, many having moved for health care and schooling.

Hawaii Workforce Development Council, 2023
88%

of Micronesian (COFA) students in Hawaii public schools have needed English-learner support.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2019
30%

of Micronesian adults in Hawaii over 25 have no high school diploma, and 52% live in poverty.

Hawaii Workforce Development Council, 2023
37%

of Honolulu County households earn less than the basics cost.

Aloha United Way ALICE report, 2024

The Salvation Army has served in Micronesia since 1985. Many families from those same islands now call Oahu home, so serving on Oahu and serving in Micronesia meet the same people.

Serve As A Guest

Know the island you serve

The plantation story

From 1852, sugar plantations brought workers from China, Japan, Portugal, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Korea and the Philippines. Waialua, Camp Homelani’s town, ran the last sugar mill on Oahu until 1996.

Pidgin, born in the fields

Workers with no shared language built Pidgin on the plantations, and their children grew up speaking it as a first language. You will hear it everywhere you serve.

‘Ohana under one roof

Hawaii leads the nation in multigenerational homes. With houses near $1.1 million, grandparents, parents and keiki often share one roof.

Learn the story before you tell yours.

Before You Go

What the summer mission asks of you

We are looking for new heroes ready to step up and make an eternal difference for the kingdom of God. Here is what that takes.

  • Complete the 14-week Revolution Hawaii program first.
  • Raise $2,500 for room, board and airfare from Hawaii.
  • Spend your summer living alongside the people you serve.
  • Go as part of The Salvation Army’s ongoing work in the islands.
A Revolution Hawaii cohort
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Missions Questions

Missions training questions

Missions training is built into the 14-week Discipleship Training School: practical evangelism and servant leadership training, put to work every week serving Hawaii’s homeless communities and at-risk youth.

Yes. The Discipleship Training School is a full-time, live-in missionary training program: daily Bible study, evangelism training, servant leadership and weekly outreach, lived out in Christian community the way missionaries live on the field.

Practical and tactical evangelism, taught in the classroom and practiced in real conversations on Oahu. It is part of the program for every student, starting with the basics.

Graduates of the 14-week program have the opportunity to apply for a summer short-term mission with The Salvation Army in Micronesia. It is an opportunity, not a guarantee; not every graduate will go.

$2,500, which covers room, board and airfare from Hawaii.

The Salvation Army opened in the Marshall Islands in 1985 and spread to Pohnpei, Chuuk, Kosrae, Saipan and Guam. Today more than 30,000 people from Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau live in Hawaii, so many of the neighbors you meet on Oahu come from the same islands.

Cost is a major driver. Homes on Oahu sold for about $1.1 million through 2025, and 37% of Honolulu County households earned less than the basics cost in 2024. The January 2026 count found 4,539 people experiencing homelessness on the island.

Pidgin is the local language of Hawaii. It grew on the sugar plantations, where workers from many countries needed a shared way to talk, and became a full language when their children grew up speaking it. You will hear it every day you serve.

Apply online for the 14-week program. Questions first? Call 808-427-3298.

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Missions Start With The DTS

Train on Oahu, then go

The need is great and the workers are few. Fourteen weeks of training and service on Oahu prepares you for a lifetime of it, with opportunities to keep serving, including summer missions.

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The entire application is fully online. It takes minutes.

P.S. September and January cohorts close when they fill. The application is online and takes minutes.