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HALAWA, HI (July 2, 2008) \u2013 Every Tuesday afternoon, Wellspring Covenant Church<\/a> becomes a place where any of 1,900 employees laid off by Aloha Airlines in March can find clothes, donated food, haircuts, and even a massage.
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\nThe ministry was started by church member and former Aloha Airlines flight attendant Valerie Sugawa, who left the carrier last year, prior to its closing.<\/p>\n

“It started out with me just wanting to give haircuts,” Sugawa told the Honolulu Advertiser<\/em>. “Then it just grew and grew.”<\/p>\n

Now, Helping Hands Hawai\u2019i Community Clearinghouse sets up shop at the church and provides support to the Aloha employees as well as people laid off from other companies. The laid-off workers can get help with resumes and applying for financial assistance.<\/p>\n

In the Gospel of John, Jesus washes his disciples\u2019 feet to demonstrate servanthood. Some of Wellsprings members are serving the out-of-work employees with foot massages.<\/p>\n

Ryan Arasato is one of the church employees who provides the 25-minute foot and back massages. “I know how it feels not to have a job,” Arasato told the Advertiser<\/em>. “This is my way of making them feel good.”<\/p>\n

Sugawa and her husband, David, also created the website ShareAloha Hawaii<\/a> to collect good and services for the former Aloha workers, as well as provide possible job leads.<\/p>\n

To learn more, please see Wellspring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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