Sharing Aloha…
One Lei At A Time!
Aloha Everyone, I’m going to Kenya. Yes…Kenya!
This June, I’ll be traveling with Prisma Dance and partnering with Camp Kairos Kenya to serve through creative outreach with children and local communities. We’ll be using dance, storytelling, and art as a way to connect, learn, and share aloha in hands-on ways.
One thing I’m super excited about!?! I get to be a teacher again!!!
During the trip, I’ll be leading a lei-making activity with children at different schools and programs. I’ll be teaching about aloha, not just as a greeting but as kindness, connection, love, and caring for one another.
My hope is that this activity creates memorable moments of joy and connection, while sharing a small piece of Hawaii in a way that can be felt personally and experienced together…not just seen in a picture.
Here are some ways your support will help:
Lei-making supplies for children
Outreach activity materials
International travel expenses
Local transportation and lodging
Community engagement opportunities
Come With Me!
For real, come with me! I may be the one flying across the globe, but I’d love for you to be a part of this journey. Whether it’s through your prayers, encouragement, or words of wisdom, I would appreciate your support.
If it’s on your heart to support this mission trip financially, I am currently raising $4,813 to help cover the costs of this trip. Your financial support helps create opportunities for connection, creativity, and community throughout this mission experience. Every contribution greatly helps make this journey possible, both for me, the local partners, and the communities we’ll be spending time with.
Ways to Join Me
Please join me in praying for:
Safe and comfy travels (cheehuuu for 43 hours outbound… Return home? 49!)
Good health for our team and the areas we’re visiting
Wisdom, discernment, and flexibility throughout the trip
Meaningful connections with the children, families, and communities
Opportunities to share aloha, encouragement, and God’s love.
Your financial support will help:
Provide lei-making supplies and activities for children
Supply materials used for outreach and creative engagement opportunities
Support our team’s ability to serve local communities
Cover travel, lodging, and transportation expenses that make this mission possible
Here are some ways your support will help:
Lei-making supplies for children
Outreach activity materials
International travel expenses
Local transportation and lodging
Community engagement opportunities
More Than A Trip
While I may be the one boarding the plane, this isn’t about me going to Kenya.
This journey is about creating opportunities for connection, learning, encouragement, and shared experiences with our team, as well as the children and communities we’ll have the privilege of spending time with.
Your messages, prayers, and contribution help bring this experience to life. They allow us to sit with children as we make lei together, share stories and laughter, learn from one another, and create meaningful memories that we’ll carry long after the trip is over.
And in those simple moments, you’re helping share a little piece of aloha…one conversation, one connection, one smile, and one lei at a time.
Here are some ways your support will help:
Lei-making supplies for children
Outreach activity materials
International travel expenses
Local transportation and lodging
Community engagement opportunities
Mahalo for your love and care, and for considering joining me on this journey in prayer, encouragement, and financial support.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Donations made through Cultivate Overflow, a registered 501(c)(3) organization, may be tax-deductible as allowed by law.
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Donations will help cover travel, transportation, lodging expenses, lei-making and outreach activity supplies, and other mission-related costs connected to the Kenya Initiative.
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If we raise more than what is needed for this Kenya Initiative, additional funds will continue to support outreach, community connection, and future initiatives through Cultivate Overflow.
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Absolutely. Prayers, encouragement, words of wisdom, messages, and sharing this page with others mean so much to me.
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Yes! I plan on sharing updates, stories, photos, and reflections throughout the journey.
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Yes! I would LOVE to mail you a postcard! No guarantees on Kenyan postmark, but I’ll send you an authentic postcard or greeting card made in Kenya.
Please submit your address below. Your information will be used only to mail you a card.
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Cassia and I are Co-Founders of Cultivate Overflow, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting nonprofits, ministries, and their supporters, in hopes to encourage sustainable and meaningful service.
Missions flourish when they have resources, relationships, and healthy people needed to thrive. That’s why we seek to support the mission and the people carrying it.
We’d love for you to learn more about our mission and heart by visiting our website
Follow along
as the trip unfolds
Updates and reflections will be posted here.
Follow along
as the trip unfolds
Updates and reflections will be posted here.
Get a Kenya-made postcard
If you’d like postcard, please leave your information below.
And feel free to share an encouraging message, words of wisdom, or prayers.
I would love to hear from you!
Get a Kenya-made postcard
If you’d like postcard, leave your information.
Please include an encouraging message, words of wisdom, or prayers.
I would love to hear from each of you!
Your prayers, messages, donations, and support mean so much, and helps make this experience possible for me…and for the children and families of the local communities we’ll be visiting.
I’m so grateful for you, for joining me in this experience. Mahalo for being here, for caring, and for helping me bring a little piece of aloha across the ocean.
Me Ke Aloha,
Melanie
Here are some ways your support will help:
Lei-making supplies for children
Outreach activity materials
International travel expenses
Local transportation and lodging
Community engagement opportunities
Mahalo Prisma Dance, and Camp Kairos for the invitation to serve to Lord during this mission trip in Kenya.
Mahalo Ke Akua for this opportunity to share Your light and love.