Maui church provides hot meals for Filipino community
Koinonia Pentecostal Church in Lahaina is feeding about 250 members of the community on Monday evenings, up from 100. The Filipino church members are making Filipino food to give them comfort and a taste of familiarity or home, during a time when some congregation members do not have a home to go to.
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Pastor Felipe Yadao, assistant pastry chef at Hyatt Regency Maui, pauses from cooking Filipino food with fellow congregation members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church on Monday in Lahaina.
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Congregation member Emmerson Cappal, a hotel worker at the Ritz Carlton Kapalua, cooks Filipino food with fellow members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Eric Arquero pauses while helping facilitate the cooking of Filipino food by congregation members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Nigel Nido, middle, shares a laugh with congregation members while cooking Filipino food at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Ronnie Pilapil, a hotel worker who lost a home to the Lahaina wildfire, takes a breather while cooking with congregation members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Ronnie Pilapil, a hotel worker who lost a home to the Lahaina wildfire, takes a breather while cooking with congregation members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Nigel Nido, left, oversees the cooking of Filipino food by congregation members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Pastor Felipe Yadao, assistant pastry chef at Hyatt Regency Maui, middle, pauses from cooking with fellow congregation members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Nigel Nido checks on a large batch of chicken sinampalukan.
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Filipino community activist Rick Nava, left, shakes hands with Koinonia Pentecostal Church’s Eric Arquero as pastor Felipe Yadao, middle, looks on, Monday.
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Nigel Nido, left, and Ronnie Pilapil work on a batch of chicken sinampalukan.
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Leila Campanano-Duldulao, left, a hotel worker and one of the pastors at Koinonia Pentecostal Church, prepares a batch of Filipino whole fried shrimp.
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Koinonia Pentecostal Church pastor Estrella Arquero watches with husband Romeo as congregation members cook Filipino food in the church’s garage.
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Koinonia Pentecostal Church pastors, from left, William Duldulao, Leila Campanano-Duldulao, Eric Arquero, Estrella Arquero, and Romeo Arquero pose for a portrait with some of the Filipino food prepared by them and congregation members on Monday.
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Pastor Eric Arquero, left, talks with Filipino community activist Rick Nava at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Filipino community activist and Lahaina resident Rick Nava, left, talks to pastors of the Koinonia Pentecostal Church on Monday.
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Nigel Nido, middle left, oversees the cooking of Filipino food by congregation members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church,.
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Leila Campanano-Duldulao, left, a hotel worker and one of the pastors at Koinonia Pentecostal Church, prepares a batch of Filipino whole fried shrimp.
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Congregation members gather to cook Filipino food in the garage at Koinonia Pentecostal Church,.
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From left, pastors William Duldulao, Leila Campanano-Duldulao, and Felipe Yadao work together to prepare whole fried shrimp —a Filipino comfort food —at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Pastor Leila Campanano-Duldulao, second from left, puts in a batch of whole fried shrimp at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Nigel Nido, right, and Ronnie Pilapil work on a batch of chicken sinampalukan —a Filipino comfort food —at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Christina Pilapil, left, smiles while looking over some of the Filipino food being cooked by congregation members at Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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Filipino community activist and Lahaina resident Rick Nava, left, talks to pastors of the Koinonia Pentecostal Church.
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