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Revolution Hawaii students serving in the Maui fire relief effort

Christian Volunteer Opportunities · Oahu, Hawaii

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Revolution Hawaii is all about opportunities: to grow in your relationship with Christ, to serve and love your neighbors, and to share Jesus with people in desperate need of His love. It all starts with the 14-week Discipleship Training School.

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

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Christian volunteer opportunities in Hawaii

Revolution Hawaii makes disciples of young adults with a mission of loving and serving the poor and needy. Every week of the 14-week program you volunteer: with Hawaii’s homeless communities, at programs for at-risk youth, and wherever disaster relief is needed. All of it is built on living in Christian community and developing servant leadership, so you can serve and share with communities at home or abroad.

We all want to change the world. Revolution Hawaii is for the few who will live like it.

A Revolution Hawaii student on night outreach

Your Opportunities

Where the Discipleship Training School can lead

The 14 weeks are the door. Beyond them are opportunities, open to students who want them and who fit what each one needs.

Discipleship Training School

Fourteen weeks of training, outreach and community on Oahu for Christian young adults ages 18–25. This is where every opportunity starts.

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First Opportunity At Camp Staff

Camp Homelani is a separate Salvation Army program on the same campus. Revolution Hawaii students get the first opportunity to join its summer staff.

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Opportunities To Go On Mission

Graduates have the opportunity to apply for a summer short-term mission with The Salvation Army in Micronesia.

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A Christian Gap Year

The same 14 weeks, taken between high school and college.

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Summer Camp For Kids

For Oahu families: Camp Homelani’s week of camp for keiki and teens ages 7–17.

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Bring Your Group

Host a church retreat or ministry event at Camp Homelani’s beachfront retreat center.

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Who You Serve

Volunteer in Hawaii, week after week

There is trouble in paradise. Revolution Hawaii students meet it with presence, relationships and practical help across the islands.

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Disaster Relief

Disasters Hawaii has faced

Fire, lava, floods, hurricanes and tsunamis have all struck the islands. When they do, The Salvation Army is among the first to serve.

~1M

meals were served or coordinated by The Salvation Army after the August 2023 Maui wildfires.

Caring Magazine, The Salvation Army, 2024
100+

people lost their lives in the 2023 Maui wildfires, which left Lahaina almost completely destroyed.

Caring Magazine, 2024
716

homes were destroyed by the 2018 Kīlauea eruption on Hawaii Island, as lava covered 13.7 square miles.

Hawaii County; USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
49.69″

of rain fell on Kauai in 24 hours in April 2018, a preliminary U.S. record, as floods hit Kauai and Oahu.

National Weather Service, 2018
1,421

homes on Kauai were destroyed by Hurricane Iniki in 1992, with winds over land of about 140 mph.

American Red Cross, via The Garden Island
159

people across Hawaii were killed by the 1946 tsunami. The 1960 tsunami killed 61 more in Hilo.

Pacific Tsunami Museum, via Hawaii Magazine

The Salvation Army’s Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division is based in Honolulu and serves Hawaii, Guam, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Disaster Relief Opportunities

Where disaster relief may take you

Here on the North Shore

In March 2021, Revolution Hawaii teams shoveled mud, cleared debris and cleaned up flooded sites in Haleiwa. In March 2026, a Kona low storm forced evacuation orders for Waialua and Haleiwa.

Across the Hawaiian islands

After the 2023 Maui wildfires, The Salvation Army started feeding at three sites and grew to ten, serving or coordinating nearly a million meals.

Across the Pacific

The Pacific is served out of Honolulu. When Typhoon Mawar hit Guam in 2023, the division sent its emergency services director on one of the first FEMA flights, and teams cooked hundreds of meals a day.

Disaster relief missions may become available during your 14 weeks or afterward. They are opportunities, never promises.

“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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Serving Questions

Christian volunteer opportunity questions

The 14-week Discipleship Training School, where you volunteer every week with Hawaii’s homeless communities and at-risk youth. Students also get the first opportunity to join Camp Homelani’s summer staff, and graduates have the opportunity to apply for a summer short-term mission.

Camp Homelani is a separate Salvation Army program on the same campus. Revolution Hawaii students get the first opportunity to join its summer staff.

Mission trips are an opportunity, not a guarantee. Graduates of the 14-week program have the opportunity to apply for the summer mission; not every graduate will go.

Revolution Hawaii’s opportunities are seasons of service, starting with 14 weeks in the Discipleship Training School. That length is what lets you build real relationships with the people you serve.

Disaster relief missions may become available during your time in the program or afterward, on Oahu, on another island or elsewhere in the Pacific. They are opportunities, not guarantees, and depend on when and where disasters strike.

Wildfires (Maui, 2023), volcanic eruptions (Kīlauea, 2018), floods (Kauai and Oahu, 2018; the North Shore, 2021 and 2026), hurricanes (Iniki, 1992) and tsunamis (1946 and 1960). Typhoons strike Pacific islands such as Guam, which The Salvation Army also serves from Honolulu.

Yes. In March 2021, Revolution Hawaii teams split up across flooded sites in Haleiwa to clear yards, remove debris and shovel mud. Students have also served in relief after the Maui fires.

The Discipleship Training School is for motivated Christian young adults ages 18–25.

Apply online for the 14-week Discipleship Training School, or call 808-427-3298 to talk it through.

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Come Join The Revolution

Your volunteer opportunities start here

Short on talk, heavy on action. Fourteen weeks on the North Shore give you the tools, the experience and the first opportunities to keep serving.

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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.