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

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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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

SOWING HOPE

By: Leslie Scoopmire

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-25

In the woods a woodpecker has discovered a pine 

filled with insects, like a piñata, 

and has already worked a pattern of holes,

like the brogues on a pair of wingtip shoes, hammering 

a spiraling, pointillist tale of his search for sustenance, 

his drumroll also warning 

that this tree might not be long for this world. 

But still, this is the way of things, 

and this is where I go to feel 

the peace 

and the industry

of wild things. 

This is where things grow 

despite me 

rather than because of me.

To be a gardener or a farmer 

is to trade in hope,

to refuse to give up 

even when the odds for abundant growth seem long. 

Nonetheless here’s growth, 

 and anticipation, 

 and hope 

 in each new sprout from the ground.

Sow hope; reap care:

the instruction manual

for farming and ministry.

There is more than simply science 

 or even art 

in how hearts, sometimes scarred from abuse or neglect, 

can nonetheless be transformed 

into the soil for new growth in love.

Sure, some seed may feed the birds–

but doesn’t God provide there as well?

Plant anyway, yes—

open to receive the gospel in faithfulness, 

in response to the promise 

that the gospel will bear fruit 

even in the clayest soil of the healing human heart.

God famously works in clay, too.

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: Niles, Robbie, Elise, Jane, Amelia, Margaret, Gordon, Webb, David, Linda, David, Helen, Tony, Anthony, Penny, Dwight, Tommy, Jennifer, Matthew, Katie 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. 

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.