Are you serving this Sunday? Would you be interested in reading at either service (zoom or in person)? You can view what positions are

available 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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Over the last thirty-five years, the Rev. Martha Sterne has served parishes in midtown Atlanta and in Maryville, East Tennessee, on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains.

She grew up as a seventh generation Mississippian, where she first experienced the power of stories as they are passed around and around and half-forgotten and re-remembered on down through generations. Stories from (and mal-form) cultures, communities and families. And stories are the lifeblood of scripture, as well. No wonder there are four versions of the gospel!

She and her husband, Carroll, have two children and two grandchildren. She has written three books: Earthly Good, Alive and Loose in the Ordinary, and Preaching with the Holy Innocents. Her abiding pleasure is to help people pay attention to the living and

storied presence of God in each of us.

Join The Rev. Martha Sterne as she leads a zoom class each Thursday in July starting at 9:00 am.

What’s got your attention? In this little poem, Mary Oliver gives us our curriculum for the Thursday Zoom group:

Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

― Mary Oliver

What are the wonders and puzzles and comforts we are noticing? You move each day through many worlds: the flora and fauna of Kauai, your family and friends and pets and co-workers, your parish life at Christ Memorial including the power and puzzles in our lection readings for upcoming Sunday worship. Each week we will be paying attention, perhaps being astonished, and telling each other about it. Should be very loose and very cool. See you and what you are paying attention to on Thursday mornings in July.

All are welcome. 

Access the zoom class by going to our website christmemorialkauai.org and clicking on 

'connect to Sunday worship' button.

Thursdays in July at 9:00 am

Check out the latest news from the Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i here

A PRAYER FOR THE WOMEN PREACHING

By: Rosalind Hughes

Loving, life-giving God,

God of Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth,

God of Miriam, and Your many Marys;

God of our mothers, our wives, our sisters,

where men have preceded, succeeded,

pleaded that they do not need us;

while the world learns to walk

without us, away from us,

You remember us as

the woman who anointed Your anointed one.

Ah, God,

Mother of all gods,

remember your daughter

in the name of Your Son,

loosen her tongue,

bear her spirit above

the waters of creation:

let her utter Your Word.

In light of some recent news, I am renewing this prayer, first published in 2019, for the women who will continue to announce the resurrection and bear witness to the Word of God, regardless.

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

Aloha ke akua.

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: Hear our prayers for those near and far, especially Ed, Andrea, Dan, Lindsey, Elise, Dale, Jane, Lowell, Sandy, Molly, Amelia, Peter, Margaret, Gordon, Jessica, Sherry, Webb, David, Linda, David, Helen, Mary, Bev, Jeanne, Chris, Carole, Elizabeth, Robert, Justin, Mike, Tony, Anthony, Penny, Tom, Sandy, Dwight, Tommy, Jennifer, Joe, Molly, Laurie, and the leadership and people of Ukraine. Pray also for the people of Russia who wish for peace and an end to the war.

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. 

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.