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Welcome to Christ Memorial Episcopal Church. We are devoted to following the life and teachings of Jesus, the Christ.  

We hope your experience worshiping with us will bless and enrich your life. 

People of all faiths are welcome to worship with us on Sunday.

Foran online service, join us at 9:30 here.

We Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

As constituent members of the Anglican Communion in the United States, we are descendants of and partners with the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church, and are part of the third largest group of Christians in the world.

We believe in following the teachings of Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection saved the world. We have a legacy of inclusion, aspiring to tell and exemplify God’s love for every human being; women and men serve as bishops, priests, and deacons in our church.

Laypeople and clergy cooperate as leaders at all levels of our church. Leadership is a gift from God, and can be expressed by all people in our church, regardless of sexual identity or orientation.

We believe that God loves you – no exceptions.

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Pastoral Letter from the Bishop

My dear Siblings in Christ,

I have just returned from Maui. I am at a loss for words to describe the loss, but, also, of the spirit of resilience and care.

On Tuesday evening, I was asked to share a short reflection on “Hope” at an ecumenical service hosted at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, Wailuku. There, I suggested that hope is grounded in “mercy,” “confidence,” and “vision.” 

Mercy is the gift of God’s love (1 Peter 2:10 – “Once you weren’t a people, but now you are God’s people. Once you hadn’t received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”). 

As a faithful people, we have confidence in God’s love (Romans 8:38-39 – “I’m convinced that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus our Lord: not death or life, not angels or rulers, not present things or future things, not powers or height or depth, or any other thing that is created.”). 

From that confidence, we have the vision of the God’s world as it is called to be, and we are called to help create (Revelation 21:6-7 – “All is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will freely give water from the life-giving spring. Those who emerge victorious will inherit these things. I will be their God, and they will be my sons and daughters.”)

Mercy is being shared throughout Maui. Many are giving much to those without anything with no expectation of return. Love abounds in the grief and in the care. The vision of lives restored and homes rebuilt will provide the impetus to continue in the days, weeks, months and years ahead. This will be a long recovery. We – the churches on Maui and the entire Diocese, Island of Maui and the State – need to be part of the recovery for a long time. Though emergency relief is needed now, the recovery for Maui will be long and difficult.

As I write today, over one hundred people are confirmed dead and one thousand are still missing. We must pray and mourn for these children of God:

Be with us, O God, as we grieve those who have died. Hold tight to the souls of those we have lost. Be with all those who loved and knew them; calm their minds, soothe their hearts, and strengthen them for the struggles ahead. We ask this in the name of Jesus, our model of selfless and life-giving love. Amen.

I have heard from members of Holy Innocents’ Church who have lost not only their physical church home (with the destruction of the sanctuary, vicarage and office), but their actual homes as well. As of now, I have no reports of parishioner deaths. Members of other Maui congregations have parishioners who have lost their homes and places of work. Many have lost friends and relatives. Many are housing friends and relatives.

As a Church, we are responding through A Cup of Cold Water as the vision for that ministry has expanded to care for houseless in new corners of the Island. Congregations and families on Maui are caring for first responders. Volunteers have come from Kaua'i to help. We are coordinating with Episcopal Relief and Development.

One thing that I was told repeatedly on Maui was that financial donations are most needed right now. The system has been inundated with “stuff.” Storage is at a premium, and the facilities and people for sorting are at a premium. So, right now, I urge churches to discontinue collecting items to send to Maui. Please make monetary collections. That may change as the recovery continues, but right now, send money.

As a Diocese, you can help in three ways using the Diocesan Donation Link: (This is a current corrected link! Do not use the link in communication dated before to August 15.):

• “A Cup of Cold Water” is the Diocesan ministry to the houseless that is coordinating with the Maui clergy and other agencies and groups to care for the immediate needs of the displaced.

• Through the “Bishop’s Pastoral Fund,” money will be collected to address recovery needs in the community and to help the congregation help others

• The “Ministry of Holy Innocents, Lahaina,” will help those from the impacted congregation and to help keep God’s people together. These funds will not be used for rebuilding (this is a consideration for the future), but only for ministry to people at this time.

Alternatively, checks can be made out to “The Episcopal Church in Hawaiʻi” with the designated fund noted in the memo, and mailed to The Episcopal Church in Hawaiʻi, 229 Queen Emma Square, Honolulu, HI 96813.

Any money collected will go to the direct support of people impacted or those agencies serving them, and not for administration of the Diocese or congregations.

This is going to be a long recovery. Things will never be the same. We will have to prepare for the future being adaptable, being willing to make and acknowledge mistakes, being generous and gracious, and being God’s servants in a hurting world.

My favorite hymn – I actually often set it as my morning alarm tune – is Hymn 665 in The Hymnal 1982. As I have heard the stories of God’s people – both those impacted and those responding – on Maui, the words of that hymn (especially the first three verses) kept rolling through my thoughts and prayers:

All my hope on God is founded; 

he doth still my trust renew. 

Me through change and chance he guideth, 

only good and only true.

God unknown, he alone 

calls my heart to be his own.

Human pride and earthly glory, 

sword and crown betray his trust; 

what with care and toil he buildeth,

tower and temple, fall to dust. 

But God's power, hour by hour,

is my temple and my tower.

God's great goodness e’er endureth, 

deep his wisdom, passing thought: 

splendor, light, and life attend him, 

beauty springeth out of naught. 

Evermore from his store 

new-born worlds rise and adore.

So, please keep praying. Prayers for those impacted by

wild fires and those who care for them can be found at Episcopal Relief & Development: Prayers for Wild Fires. Please use those prayers in your private prayers and at worship.

Finally, please be kind to one another. We all will need to show a special spirit of aloha in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead as the earth and people heal.

Yours in the love of Christ Jesus,

+Bob

The Right Reverend Robert L. Fitzpatrick

 (Pronouns: he, him, his)

Bishop Diocesan 

The Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i

229 Queen Emma Square

Honolulu, HI 96813

(808) 536-7776

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Sunday school will be held at 8:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall across from Christ Memorial with beloved teacher Leona.

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Helen Mitsui Shared Blessings Thrift Shop in Kilauea is seeking Volunteers for 2023.

Each volunteer shift is a 2-4 hour commitment for a minimum of one day per week. Experience in Retail, Customer Service, and/or Retail a plus, but not required.

Volunteers are invaluable to serving our community. Our goal is to reuse, repurpose and recycle goods — keeping as much as possible out of landfill — while providing our community with access to reasonably priced, quality merchandise.

Here are ways you can help:

* Greeters welcome shoppers and monitor our COVID guidelines.

* Customer Care helps shoppers to ensure a pleasant shopping experience.

* Merchandisers organize departments, restock the floor and display retail goods.

* Philanthropy distributes merchandise to organizations in need.

* Donation Intakers receive, sort and process donations.

Work-from-Home volunteers help prepare merchandise for sale. We are especially looking for help in these areas:

* Games: checking games to ensure all components are intact

* Stationery: packaging up cards and envelopes

* Holidays: preparing merchandise for Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentines, 4th of July, and more

* School, Office, Art Craft Supplies: organizing and packaging materials for reuse

* Toys: sorting, cleaning, and packaging toys

* Hardware: sorting and packaging tools, materials, electronics and appliances

Requirements?

*Team players with a genuine interest in serving the community and contributing to the reuse movement.

* Willingness to support COVID-19 safety measures set by Shared Blessings

* Physically able to lift 50 pounds (Merchandisers and Donation Intakers only)

Benefits?

Serving the community and our environment is rewarding work. We have a lot of fun! New merchandise is donated daily, so the element of surprise and wonder is constant. Get a first peek and more!

Interested?

Click on the reply button here! Let us know 1) your interests, 2) your availability to volunteer and 3) your contact information. Mahalo!

Let us pray for our own needs and those of others. We remember especially those on our prayer list. Healing of body, mind and spirit for: Rae, Sylas, Sid, Jo, Charlyn, Erin, Wyatt, the Wills family, Rick, Marcie, Miranda, Dan, Niles, Robbie, Elise, Jane, Amelia, Margaret, Gordon, Dale, Webb, David, Linda, David, Helen, Tony, Anthony, Penny, Dwight, Tommy, Jennifer, Matthew, Katie and the leadership and people of Ukraine. We pray also for the people of Russia who wish for peace and an end to the war. And for the people and land of Maui -- especially for those who have lost their homes and businesses and livelihood. 

We pray that you will bring people together in worship. Enliven your church and bless our musician, our clergy and lay leadership. We pray for our sibling Episcopal congregations on Kauai: St John and St Pauls, St Michael & All Angels, and All Saints, and for all churches on the North Shore. We pray for our own congregation of Christ Memorial, Kilauea for those present, online and absent - that all of us together may be united in your ministry. 

Are there others? Send a prayer list request to christmemorialkilauea@gmail.com

THRIFT SHOP MISSION STATEMENT:

Our goal is to provide our community with reasonably priced, quality merchandise. We will reuse, repurpose and recycle goods and keep as much as possible out of the landfill in an effort to help Kauai and our planet toward Zero Waste. Above all we will show compassion, kindness and tolerance to each other and our community.