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Pastor Greg Laurie to deliver faith-filled inspiration at ‘Hope for Lahaina’ event

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April 27, 2024

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U.S. Navy veteran Luke Schneider joined ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss mainland firefighters selling fire department coffee and T-shirts to help raise funds for Maui first responders displaced by the August wildfires.

Nearly nine months after the devastating wildfire in Maui, the community is still struggling and suffering from the after-effects of the destructive blaze.

Pastor Greg Laurie, founder of Harvest Christian Fellowship in California and Hawaii, wants to help provide for the needs of those struggling on the island, both in the physical and spiritual sense.

Laurie, along with former “American Idol” contestant Danny Gokey and worship leader Leeland, are hosting an outreach event called “Hope for Lahaina” on Sunday, April 28. They’re aiming to preach a Gospel message to the people of Maui and be a source of encouragement and uplift for the people who are trying to regain a sense of normalcy after losing everything.

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Speaking to Fox News Digital this week, Laurie said there remains a “lingering sadness” over the island, long after the clouds of smoke and ashes faded.

“The reality is settling in,” he said. “Sadly, some have left the island altogether.”

Sun beams through clouds over homes burned in the wildfires

Rebuilding in Lahaina “has been slow,” Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship told Fox News Digital. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

While the event is called “Hope for Lahaina,” Laurie said “hope” is an acronym that stands for “Holding On with Patient Expectation.”

“The Bible tells us that hope can function like an anchor in a person’s life,” he said.

In Lahaina, this is playing out in quite a literal sense, said Laurie. A “massive anchor” now stands where the Pioneer Inn, a historic inn that was the oldest continuously operating hotel in Hawaii, once stood.

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“The anchor survived that horrific fire, as did the famed Banyan tree,” said Laurie. “That tree was originally planted in 1873 to mark the 50th anniversary of the first mission by missionaries to the island.”

The Banyan tree and anchor, said Laurie, “symbolize what we are doing.”

Poster of Hope for Lahaina event with images of Leeland, Greg Laurie, and Danny Gokey

Pastor Greg Laurie, center, will be sharing a message from John’s gospel about Lazarus on Sunday’s “Hope for Lahaina” event. He will be joined by Leeland Mooring, at left, and Danny Gokey of “American Idol” fame. (Harvest Maui)

“Hope in God anchors us in tumultuous times, and God can bring ‘beauty out of ashes’ and we can live and grow again,” he said.

That hope, said Laurie, “is found in a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.”

“Hope in God anchors us in tumultuous times.”

Harvest, which has a location in Lahaina, has “been able to step in the gap and bring both practical help and hope to the people of this island,” he said.

Thanks to donations from across the country, Havest Maui has provided food, clothing, school supplies, housing and more to people who survived the fires.

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“We also had mental health specialists on the island speaking, as well as at events for families — from inspirational movie nights to outreaches to thousands of kids,” Laurie told Fox News Digital.

He continued, “We’ve assisted local area schools by building temporary classrooms for their children and have continued to support Maui’s first responders, who are also victims of the fires.”

Pastor Greg Laurie and Harvest Ministries

Pastor Laurie, seen here in a July 2023 picture, seeks to inspire the people of Maui with the message of the Gospel and the truth that Jesus has the power to change lives, even if things seem hopeless. (Pastor Greg Laurie/Harvest Ministries)

The aftereffects of the fire are particularly hard for children, he said, who are now bussed 90 minutes to and from school each day after their original schools were destroyed.

“Rebuilding here has been slow,” said Laurie.

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Aside from physical assistance, Laurie has also worked to meet people’s spiritual needs.

“Our weekly worship services and Bible teachings are the heart of all we say and do,” he said. “We’ve had Harvest Maui pastors trained in biblical trauma counseling to support those in the community who need assistance.”

“Harvest Maui is here for the long haul.”

“Harvest Maui is here for the long haul,” said Laurie, noting that his church will soon be moving to a more permanent facility to accommodate its growing congregation.

“I cannot emphasize enough how important spiritual help is to people, especially at a time like this,” he said.

“Jesus is still in the life-changing business today,” said Pastor Laurie. (Pastor Greg Laurie/Harvest Ministries)

The situation in Lahaina, he said, is not unlike the story of Lazarus in John’s Gospel.

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Following Lazarus’ death, things “looked like the bleakest of circumstances,” said Laurie.

“Jesus came and changed everything,” raising Lazarus from the dead.

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And “Jesus,” he said, “is still in the life-changing business today.”

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Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.

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Eleven injured as Boeing jet skids off runway

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3 hours ago

May 9, 2024

Our Foreign Staff

A Boeing 737 plane with 78 passengers skidded off a runway before takeoff at Senegal’s main airport on Tuesday, injuring 11 people and bringing flights to a halt.

The Blaise Diagne airport said an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the accident, which occurred at around 0100 GMT as the Transair-owned Boeing 737-300 chartered by Air Senegal was preparing to fly to Mali.

The plan crashed before takeoff and has closed the airport

A night-time video shared on social media showed a plane with the logo of Senegal-based airline Transair standing in grass with a wing covered in fire-suppressing foam.

The airport statement said it activated emergency protocols to evacuate passengers.

“For now, the airport is closed … The reopening of the airport is expected within the next few hours,” it added.

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Gutfeld: Team Biden is lying to the American people to imprison its chief rival

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10 hours ago

May 9, 2024

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Trump notches a win as libs sit and spin. A federal judge has postponed Trump’s classified records trial indefinitely. It was supposed to start later this month, but like my vacation plans with Kristi Noem, that ain’t happening.

You remember that case: the sham trial stemming from the classified records investigation cooked up by Jack Smith. The trial should have started May 20, but due to the myriad and interconnected pretrial issues, Judge Aileen Cannon put the whole damn thing on hold. Translation: That case is imploding faster than when my butt implants went scuba diving.

And our instincts as to why are correct. The judge’s decision to postpone the trial comes just days after Jack Smith’s own prosecutors admitted that evidence was rearranged after the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago back in August 2022.

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Said the feds: “There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans… The government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what government counsel previously understood and represented to the court.”

That’s a lot of words for saying, “We f***** up.” Even former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder admits the whole process has simply not been on the up-and-up. And that’s coming from a Democrat who looks like Howard Sprague.

And here’s a revelation: The infamous crime scene photo of the raid may be more doctored than Jill Biden’s education. Think about it. They admitted as much in a recent court filing.

This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Remember, it’s the picture the liberal media shoved down our throats. All the classified papers laid out neatly on the beautiful, expensive Trump carpeting. Documents labeled “Top Secret” with distinct classification levels showing just how evil and conniving the big orange Godzilla really was to hoard such top secret materials.

The only thing is those papers labeled top secret were cover sheets they simply slapped on there for the photo op. Yeah, top secret cover sheets. What is this, “Get Smart”? Hey, guys, we don’t want people to read this, better put “top secret” on it. Yeah, while we’re at it, be sure to put, “Don’t peek, awesome toy inside” on your kids’ Christmas gifts.

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As Julie Kelly with Declassified was first to report, the court filings “conclusively demonstrate that the government used the cover sheets to deceive the public as well as the court. The photo was a stunt, and one that adds more fuel to this dumpster-fire case.” True, it was more staged than a Kilmeade book signing.

So once again, it’s Team Biden lying to the American people to imprison his chief rival, because if you can’t beat him, put him behind bars. But of course, there’s no fooling the New York Times, they published this piece just days after the raid, “How the Picture of Top Secret Folders at Mar-a-Lago Came About.”

Yeah, it was just one of the dozens of left-wing headlines touting the authenticity of a photo that was about as legitimate as those pills I ordered from Canada. I actually got shorter.

Now, I didn’t go to law school, but I know evidence tampering when I see it — it’s how I framed OJ. Of course, as predicted, the Trump-dependent media is melting down over the trial’s indefinite delay.

Donald Trump and Jack Smith (Getty Images/File) (Getty Images)

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MSNBC’S JOE SCARBOROUGH: It’s crazy. It’s crazy. A 12-year-old that went with her mother to “Take a Kid to Court Day,” like as a lawyer, or something, would have come up with a better ruling than she’s come up with. It’s bizarre… I guess she’s either ill-equipped — extraordinarily ill-equipped — or she just doesn’t care what the world thinks of her. She’s right now looking like, everything she’s doing, she’s doing to help Donald Trump.

No, God forbid there’s some honesty right there at the end. He’s not mad over the alleged tampering. He’s mad that the defendant may be helped by the ruling.

Now, a normal person would be outraged that the government may be framing an American citizen, but in Joe’s mind, the outrage is that this citizen might get justice.

Piece of advice, Joe: When you start rooting for the law to get away with bad things, you might be the bad guy. “Morning Joe” has now become the “Bonnie and Clyde” of insufferable dip*****.

So, while that Florida trial is put on ice, the hush money trial in New York took its scheduled weekly break today, so what are all the players up to? Well, Stormy Daniels took the day off to hit the beach.

A court sketch depicts former President Donald Trump appearance in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Trump’s lawyers are asking Judge Aileen Cannon to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith’s charges pertaining to Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. (Lothar Speer)

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See, it seems nothing can get orange Godzilla down. Every cockamamie crime, every faux felony, every trumped-up charge. Meanwhile, Biden’s being hidden in a crate by the Ark of the Covenant, but it’s all starting to unravel, just like the plot of a Stormy Daniels movie.

Why would there be four pizza delivery guys?

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So you notice a trend here?

They told us the laptop was fake, but this photo was real. They told us spying on the Trumps was fake, but Russian collusion was real. They told us inflation was fake, but those job numbers were real.

How come the lies only go one way to help one guy and hurt the other? And we’re supposed to be too dumb to notice? Well, maybe if you’re “Morning Joe.”

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Biden Says the U.S. Will Not Supply Israel With Weapons to Attack Rafah

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11 hours ago

May 9, 2024

Erica L. Green

President Biden acknowledged on Wednesday that American bombs have been used to kill Palestinian civilians as he warned that the United States would withhold certain weapons if Israel launches a long-threatened assault in southern Gaza.

In some of his strongest language to date on the seven-month war, Mr. Biden said the United States would still ensure Israel’s security, including the Iron Dome missile defense system and Israel’s “ability to respond to attacks” like the one Iran launched in April.

But he said he would block the delivery of weapons that could be fired into densely populated areas of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering.

The president had already halted the shipment of 3,500 bombs last week out of concern that they might be used in a major assault on Rafah — the first time since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 that Mr. Biden has leveraged U.S. arms to try to influence how the war is waged.

On Wednesday, he said that he would also block the delivery of artillery shells.

“If they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem,” Mr. Biden said in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett.

He added: “But it’s just wrong. We’re not going to — we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells used, that have been used.”

Asked whether 2,000-pound American bombs had been used to kill civilians in Gaza, Mr. Biden said: “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers.”

Mr. Biden’s remarks underscore the growing rift between the United States and its closest Middle East ally over the war in Gaza, which has killed more than 34,000 people and caused a humanitarian crisis. The United States is by far the biggest supplier of weapons to Israel, and the Biden administration plans to deliver a report to Congress this week assessing whether it believes Israel’s assurances that it has used American weapons in accordance with U.S. and international law.

Mr. Biden had resisted earlier calls to condition aid to Israel Mr. Biden has remained unwavering in his support of Israel’s right to defend itself, even as he speaks out forcefully against the invasion of Rafah and grows frustrated with what he once described as Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing.”

But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has rebuffed the U.S. warnings, saying that Israel would move forward with eradicating Hamas even if it has to do so alone.

This week, the Israeli war cabinet voted unanimously to move forward with a Rafah assault, and Israeli forces warned more than 100,000 civilians to evacuate as it started what it called “targeted strikes” against Hamas.

U.S. officials said this week that Israel had said its operation thus far in Rafah was “limited” and “designed to cut off Hamas’s ability to smuggle weapons into Gaza,” but continued to express their concern with an escalation.

Mr. Biden said he did not consider Israel’s operations in Rafah to date to qualify as a full-scale invasion because they have not struck “population centers.”

But he said he considered them to be “right on the border,” adding that they were causing problems with key allies such as Egypt, which has been integral to cease-fire negotiations and opening border crossings for humanitarian aid.

Mr. Biden said he had made it clear to Mr. Netanyahu and his war cabinet that they would not get support if they moved forward with an offensive in densely populated areas.

“We’re not walking away from Israel’s security,” he said, “we’re walking away from Israel’s ability to wage war in those areas.”

Mr. Biden was also asked about Gaza protests on college campuses — specifically chants calling him “Genocide Joe” — that have erupted in recent weeks.

Asked if he hears the message of those young Americans, Mr. Biden said:

“Absolutely, I hear the message.”

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