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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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For the second year in a row, the Diocese of Hawai'i will be holding a Prayer Hike concurrently on three islands. This year, family members are invited to join in, so get ready for a great day of hiking, prayer, fun and fellowship! Hikes take place on Saturday, March 25, beginning at 9:00 AM. Hikes should be completed by 1:00 PM. ​​

• O'ahu: Aiea Loop Trail (Leader - Lynea Mitchell)
• Kaua'i: Sleeping Giant (Leader - Rachel Secretario)
• Hawai'i Island: Volcano National Park (Leader - Lindy Marzo)

For more information, visit the Diocesan Youth webpage HERE, or download the flyer including the Prayer Hike Guide HERE, then register HERE. Be sure to complete the Waiver/Release form HERE and bring it with you.

With the recent rebuilding of their pipe organ, All Saints' in Kapa'a has begun hosting the Makana Mele Concert series featuring renowned organists from around the world.

Upcoming Makana Mele event:

April 15th, 2023 at 6PM, local musician Daniel Welch presents a benefit concert for the Wilcox/Sloggett 'Ohana Organ. Daniel has been studying organ with Oahu organist Kathy Crosier. Come support our pipe organ and see how we are reaching young musicians with the gift of pipe organ music. 

Are you looking for a centering practice during Lent? Join the CAC online contemplative community for a free series of Virtual Sit Meditations to cultivate greater awareness during this Lenten season. Live streamed on YouTube, these virtual meditations will take place each Friday at 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET; 7 p.m. GMT), from February 24 until April 7.

Virtual Sit Meditations for Lent

Every Friday from February 24 – April 7, 2023 

Featuring CAC Faculty and Staff

Presented by the Center for Action and Contemplation 

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

LAZARUS UNBOUND

By: Leslie Scoopmire

John 11:1-45

To the sound of distant weeping I exited:

“Eleazar, Eleazar,” my sisters cried

but the keen came as if from the bottom of a well, 

recessing like a long, slow tide; fevered rasp 

of buzzing insects in the sick room; 

and my scroll was torn in half with what I thought 

was finality.

All was still. I rose and spun 

and I cooled like a stone skipped into a river

pain and broken body shrugged off, a spent husk:

At this point of the page I resume: 

I had shed this tomb of a body and rolled back the stone.

In golden sunlight, walking under a canopy 

of lupine-blue sky, hands at waist facing forward, fingers open 

as bobbing seas of wildflowers 

– anemones and poppies, rockrose, Aaron’s rod-

weave their stems around my wrists, 

and I absorb the honeyed petrichor of a desert in bloom,

murmuration of sparrows from a wadi nearby

swallows swooping from the tops of locust trees.

The difference between a field and a wasteland is in the flowers.

All was rest. All was God. All was peace.

A kaleidoscope of colors and I am jerked back

by the voice of love, insistent.

From the depths he called me to rising with a voice tear-choked.

Then the longed-for renewal of breath back into a body

now stretched like a new wineskin across my soul.

I am a somnambulist, stumbling pale in my shroud 

toward an aperture so bright all was white beyond,

heart pounding like a child’s eager fist at a door.

TIPS FROM LOT'S LIST - "Eat less imported foods. Eat less packaged foods. Read food labels. Purchase more locally grown foods, vegetables and fruits."

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: Lowell, Gordon, Jessica, Sherry, Webb, David, Linda, David, Helen, Mary, Bev, Jeanne, Chris, Carole, Elizabeth, Robert, Justin, Mike, Tony, Anthony, Penny, Betsy, the leadership and people of Ukraine, and those affected in Turkey and Syria.  We pray that you will bring people together in worship. Enliven your church and bless Michael 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.