Church Newsletter for the week of July 25: Incoming Pastor Bio, A letter to Cuba from Michael Curry, Healing Places and more...💛

A fond farewell to our current Pastor in residence, the Reverand Paige Hanks. Paige has gifted us with her time and talents facilitaing dialogue, mentoring staff and volunteers and insipiring us all with her limitless ability to give and share wisdom. She gave her time and thougthful reflections freely to others, sharing her skills in communicating complex ideas and concepts. She has blessed us with her teachings, delving into Women in the Bible, and Michael Curry's book 'Love is the Way' in a weekly teaching series. Thank you for inspiring our congregation with your teachings and preachings, Paige! Your warmth, dedication, and guidance will be missed here at Christ Memorial! Aloha and a hui hou!

WELCOME TO OUR INCOMING PASTOR

We welcome Jonathan Coffey to our congregation as our incoming Pastor in Residence!

Biography: Jon Coffey’s mother Mary Elizabeth Corey was born in Osaka Japan to Canadian Anglican missionary parents and then grew up in Hilo and Honolulu. Her father, Hollis Corey, served Holy Apostles in Hilo and The Church of the Epiphany in Honolulu. Jon’s father was stationed in Honolulu during the war and fell in love with the missionary’s daughter. After the war they were married in Chattanooga Tennessee where Jon’s family had lived for many years.

Jon grew up with three siblings in Miami Florida where his father served in the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida. Jon graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1972. In 1974 he and Julie Gibson were married before moving to Chicago where he entered seminary. After seminary, Jon and Julie lived in Michigan, Arkansas, Arizona, New York and Florida before returning to their home state of Florida in 2006. They had two children, Katherine Elizabeth (Kate) who is an acupuncturist and mother of two in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Spencer, an artist, musician and chef who died tragically this year.

Jon served parishes in the country, in the urban core and in suburban settings. His congregations varied in size from 40 to 2500. His focus in ministry is now and always has been healing and reconciliation, the twin mysteries of the gospel. Julie is a psychotherapist and has a thriving private practice in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2015 Jon retired from active ministry and together he and Julie built a home in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, in between Savannah and Charleston. Jon enjoys kayaking, hiking, swimming, bicycling and he is actively involved in starting a Conservation Burial Preserve in Beaufort County as well as the National Park to Reconstruction begun in the last days of the Obama Administration. He and Julie enjoy birding, the arts and quiet walks with their Labrador Retriever, Otis, named for Jon’s seminary dean. They are so looking forward to meeting all of you and together with you serving the Holy One.

STAY TUNED FOR AN UPCOMING TEACHING SERIES ON HEALING SPACES

Upcoming class led by Jonathan Coffey will commence on Thursdays at 10:30 am via Zoom. Stay tuned for the time and date of the first session!

A Journey into the topic of how a place works towards facilitating healing...

In the 1990’s Dr. Esther Sternberg began testing an intuition most of us share: that beauty facilitates healing of mind, body and spirit. Out of her research came the book “Healing Spaces: The Role of Place in Wellbeing”. Dr. Sternberg has since then joined the faculty at the School for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson where she directs research and chairs the Center for Place, Wellbeing and Performance. We will read and reflect upon her book and the growth in appreciation for the ideal habitats for healing each Thursday mornings at 10:30 a.m.

PASTORAL WORD FROM PRESIDING BISHOP MICHAEL CURRY

To the people of Cuba...

To Bishop Griselda Delgado Del Carpio, to my brothers and sisters in the Episcopal Diocese of Cuba, and to all of God’s children in your country, I greet you with the ancient words of the Apostles, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

I stand in solidarity with you during this time of sickness, food insecurity, economic suffering, and civil unrest. I am praying for you, and I stand for the human rights of all peaceful protesters.

When I saw you early in March of 2020, I said then, and I mean now: “We love Cuba and all her people.” In 1 Corinthians, St. Paul reminds us that in the Body of Christ, “When one member suffers, all suffer together with it,” and we share in your pain with the loss of lives due to the pandemic.

Even in the face of despair, Jesus walks with us and gives us strength as we strive to serve others, preserve dialogue, and protect hope. We also encourage humanitarian agencies and the international community to be supportive of Cuba at this moment of suffering and need in order to help you move toward a society of justice, peace, and health.

To all people in The Episcopal Church, I beseech you to pray for our Cuban brothers and sisters and to hold them in your hearts and minds in the days to come.

Keep the faith,

The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry

Presiding Bishop and Primate

The Episcopal Church

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Helen Mitsui Shared Blessings Thrift Shop in Kilauea is seeking Volunteers for 2021.

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!

PRAYER REQUESTS THIS WEEK

Healing of body, mind and spirit for:

Our Friends in Hanalei, Shannon, Janice, Marilyn, Sarah and Julie, Tony, Scott, Greg, Webb, Christine, Kathy, Edith, Landrea, Sara, Patrick, Seth, Robin, Tyler, Chip and his wife Carrie, Stacy, Jessica, Lisa, Susan, Auntie Marrie, Molly and Abigail, Issa, Evelyn, Charlene, David, Tessa, Lee, Austin, Shane, Kim, Deanna, Annah, Maggie, Linda, David and both Mary Ellen's and their families.

ONGOING ACTIVITIES

Our Thrift Shop is Open!

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Wednesday 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Saturday 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

For a safe shopping experience, we can only allow 8 shoppers in the store at any time.

All must wear masks and use hand sanitizer.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

Meets in the Parish Hall:

Monday 6:15 - 7:15 pm & 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Tuesday 10:00-11:00 am & 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Wednesday 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Go to www.kauaiaa.org for more info.

THIS IS MY OFFERING

A Prayer:

Magnificent Holy Father.

I stand before you at this altar. So many have given you more.

I may not have much I can offer. Yet what I have is truly yours.

This is my offering, dear Lord.

This is my offering to You, God.

Your offering enables us to maintain worship, prayer and study during this time. Help us continue to provide a beautiful, flourishing, and safe "Sanctuary for the Spirit" at our historic and faithful church on Kaua'i.

Change to Automated Giving: Thank you to those of you who automate your giving and have a plan to support your church. Your consistent, planned generosity makes it possible for us to budget and dream responsibly. Want to change to automated giving? It makes life easy, especially if you travel.

Live off island? If you have a prayer intention or would like to pray for those on our prayer list, email our office. To be part of the church collective means we all share in the cost of being a church. We want our church to have inspiring worship; pastoral care for those in need; beautiful church grounds; programs to learn and grow; and tools to reach out to those who are seeking a closer relationship with God. See the different ways you can share your gifts, on our Giving page HERE.

If you like to give by check, please send to:

Christ Memorial Episcopal Church,

P.O. Box 293, Kilauea, HI 96754

Or consider changing to Automated Giving. It makes life easy. Just click on the button below to make a one-time or recurring donation.

Thank you for your love and care for our Christ Memorial community!

PASSING THE PLATE

PAYPAL

http://www.christmemorialkauai.org/radicalgiving.html

STAY INFORMED

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