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March 8, 2019

Diocesan Events & Special Announcements
HEADER PHOTO: This issue's header photo was taken at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church on Maui, where they celebrated Shrove Tuesday in grand Mardi Gras fashion, in preparation for the Season of Lent. Photo from the Good Shepherd Facebook page .
O'ahu Happenings
Kaua'i Happenings
Maui Happenings
Big Island Happenings
The Episcopal Church & Beyond
We share a very special article that speaks of the commitment of the late Rev. Cn. Malcolm Chun:
Home Sought for Buffalo Hide Symbolizing Church’s Commitment to Indigenous Ministries By David Paulson, Episcopal News Service
[Episcopal News Service] The buffalo hide once on display at the Episcopal Church Center in New York is an imposing artifact, expansive enough to encompass native culture, artistic symbolism, bonds of faith, 400 years of American history and a decade-old connection between a presiding bishop and a Hawaiian Episcopal leader.

The hide also is in need of a new home, displaced by construction to accommodate a new tenant in part of the Episcopal Church Center.

“The concern is that it not end up in a place where it would [be] forgotten,” said the Rev. Brad Hauff, The Episcopal Church’s missioner for indigenous ministries. He’s “pursuing a number of possibilities” for relocating the painted buffalo hide.

That search for a new home comes as Episcopalians mourn the January death of the Rev. Malcolm Chun, the native Hawaiian who offered the hide as a gift to then-Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in 2008, when Chun was secretary general of the Anglican Indigenous Network. Chun, whose funeral was Feb. 23, saw the hide as a symbol of the early English settlers’ colonial-era commitment to bringing Christianity to America’s native tribes, the Rev. Robert Two Bulls Jr. told Episcopal News Service.

“Malcolm … was really just a big supporter of the Jamestown Covenant,” said Two Bulls, who serves the Episcopal Church in Minnesota as missioner for the Department of Indian Work. He also is the artist who painted the buffalo hide at Chun’s request. READ MORE
LENT MADNESS HAS BEGUN!
The Season of Lent has begun, and that means Lent Madness is in the air and the battle for the Golden Halo has begun! Be sure to cast your vote for the battling Saints throughout Lent, and learn about the many Saints of the Church! For more information and to vote, visit the Lent Madness website HERE.
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED REMINDERS:
EYE20 PLANNING TEAM ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS NOW!
Deadline is March 17
Applications for youth interested in serving on the Planning Team for the 2020 Episcopal Youth Event (EYE20) are now being accepted. To be eligible for the Planning Team, youth applicants must be currently enrolled in grades 9 – 11 and be a communicant in good standing in an Episcopal Church congregation. The online application is available HERE in English and HERE in Spanish. The deadline for receiving applications is March 17, 2019 by 5:00 PM EST. Unfamiliar with Episcopal Youth Event? Read about EYE HERE. For information contact Bronwyn Clark Skov at bskov@episcopalchurch.org.
PRESIDING BISHOP CALLS FOR GOOD FRIDAY OFFERING TO SUPPORT MINISTRY IN ANGLICAN PROVINCE OF JERUSALEM AND MIDDLE EAST
“The Good Friday Offering of our Church is one way to help connect the love of Christ on the cross with our support of the ongoing ministry of love and compassion carried out by our Anglican sisters and brothers throughout the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East,” Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry wrote to the bishops and clergy of The Episcopal Church. In his Good Friday letter, Presiding Bishop Curry asks each Bishop and congregation to consider providing assistance for the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East.Information, including bulletin covers and bulletin inserts on the Good Friday Offering, is available HERE. To view a copy of the Presiding Bishop's letter, click HERE
TENS CONFERENCE 2019: GENEROSITY TRANSFORMED!
The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS) announces the Generosity Transformed! Conference that will be held April 30-May 12, 2019, in Indianapolis, IN. Church and organizational leaders will learn how to energize and revitalize their strategies for faithful generosity by connecting their missions, ministries, and resources. More than a typical workshop-based conference, Generosity Transformed! Conference participants will engage deeply in peer discussion groups and subject-based roundtables to develop practical implementation plans, and leave ready and able to help their churches and organizations thrive through transformative practices of faithful generosity. Live streaming of all keynote speaker presentations will be available. For more information and to register, visit their website HERE.
LIFE TRANSFORMED: THE WAY OF LOVE IN LENT AND EASTER
The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. We are baptized into his life, self-giving and death; then we rise in hope to life transformed. This Lent, faith communities are invited to walk with Jesus in his Way of Love and into the experience of transformed life.
 
New Way of Love resources for Lent and Easter include three components; additional resources from partnering organizations and churches are also featured. To view the variety of resources available, visit the Episcopal Church website HERE.
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Sybil Nishioka, Editor & Communications Contractor
The Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i
229 Queen Emma Square, Honolulu, HI 96813
(808) 636-7776
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