WEEKLY NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
May 22, 2022
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Phone Number: (808) 482-4824
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Sunday Worship
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Scripture Readings for this Sunday:
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Service of Holy Eucharist
with Music, in the Sanctuary
8:00 am
Mask preferred.
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Service of Holy Eucharist
with Music, in the Sanctuary
9:30 am
Mask preferred.
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Are you serving this Sunday? Would you be interested in reading at either service (zoom or in person)? You can view what positions are
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WELCOME TO CHRIST MEMORIAL |
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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.
During pandemic time, join us at 9:30 here.
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JOIN OUR (UPDATED)
WEEKLY TEACHING SERIES:
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE DIVINE
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From the comfort of your own computer....
Join our online Zoom class facilitated by The Rev. Lowell E. Grisham, every Thursday morning at 9:00 am
CLASS UPDATE:
The Thursday 9 a.m. Teaching Series Zoom class is shifting gears. Lowell will be teaching about the Apostle Paul.
Teaser: Lowell is convinced that Paul is a feminist, at least in first century terms.
Learn about someone who is arguably the most important figure in the early Church's history. Join us Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. The Teaching Series Zoom link is on the Christ Memorial Website and in the weekly Newsletter (below).
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THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WELCOMES YOU |
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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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HAPPY 97th BIRTHDAY TO HELEN MITSUI |
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Twenty plus church members caravanned to Helen Mitsui’s house after church last Sunday to sing Happy Birthday to her. Helen turned 97 years old on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. She has been our Helen Mitsui Shared Blessings Thrift Shop Director for 40 plus years and still gives us direction from home. She is our oldest church member, a cherished mentor to many of us and an inspiration and blessing to us all.
Mahalo to all those that showed their love to
Helen on her 97th birthday!
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PASTORAL STATEMENT ON MASS SHOOTING IN BUFFALO |
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A message from Episcopal Church
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
My heart is heavy with the news that a white supremacist gunman took the lives of 10 children of God in Buffalo on Saturday. I grew up walking distance from the scene of this hateful crime, and my friends and I used to ride our bikes around the neighborhood. Buffalo’s Black community raised and formed me. I grieve with the city and people I love.
The loss of any human life is tragic, but there was deep racial hatred driving this shooting, and we have got to turn from the deadly path our nation has walked for much too long. Bigotry-based violence—any bigotry at all—against our siblings who are people of color, Jewish, Sikh, Asian, trans, or any other group, is fundamentally wrong. As baptized followers of Jesus of Nazareth, we are called to uphold and protect the dignity of every human child of God, and to actively uproot the white supremacy and racism deep in the heart of our shared life.
Please join me in prayer for the shattered families in Buffalo. Please also join me in expressing profound gratitude for the intervention by Buffalo police that likely saved many other lives. Even amid tragedy, even when manifestations of evil threaten to overwhelm, let us hold fast to the good. It is the only way that leads to life.
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COVID TESTS AVAILABLE FOR ORDER |
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You can order free home covid tests now. Link below:
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TO THE GOOD SHEPHERD
by Laurie Gudim
My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.” – John 10:27-30
Like so many of us, I’ve had some bad experiences when it comes to belonging. My family moved around a lot when I was growing up, and I’d often be the stranger in a community that knew one another pretty well. I was not outgoing, and I didn’t make friends easily, a fact my extrovert mother couldn’t understand. “Smile more,” she would tell me. “Make jokes with the kids. Get them to play with you.” But nothing she suggested was in my wheelhouse. As often as not, I’d become the brunt of jokes and bullying and then eventually be forgotten as the lives of my peers went on without me.
I was baptized when I was six months old and confirmed in some innocuous Protestant church when I was twelve. Because I was the stranger there too, my confirmation teachers forgot to include me in the ceremony until they saw me weeping at my mother’s side in one of the front pews. I’d participated in the classes and done all the work preparatory to making my commitment to the congregation – and I had still been left out. I don’t know how it happened; it’s probably every good teacher’s nightmare. They hastened to bring me up front with the other kids as soon as they realized what was going on. But of course what it confirmed in me was that I didn’t belong.
My journey as an adult has been along the twisty, narrow road between my head and my soul. In the course of my healing, I have swept up the reins of my life and become one who loves rather than one who desperately seeks love. It has meant fully embracing my awkwardness and social failures, and using all of me as a tool in the service of love.
The language of my soul is Christian. I have always known I belong to Christ, even when my head has told me differently. God has taken many shapes: grandmother, diamond, witch, sage, ocean, light, and utter darkness and emptiness, to name a few. But always there is that incarnating, dying and resurrecting aspect, that Christ.
That dying and resurrecting being, that Christ, dwells in me and knows me completely. And even if I don’t understand the words, I know his voice. I know the path through pain and utter hopelessness into emptiness and then into the new light. I belong to this path, to him.
I cannot be snatched out of Christ’s hand. No matter what I do or don’t do – no matter what my behavior or belief – I belong to Christ. It’s just so. I can get skeptical and renounce my faith; I can get on my high-horse and think I know everything; I can ignore the important tasks and embrace trivia; I can hurt somebody terribly or wrong them grievously; and yet I still belong to Christ. He is the shepherd whose voice I follow. He is the Way.
This understanding doesn’t by itself make me brave. Dwelling in the awareness of what is in my soul is what makes a difference in my day to day life. Knowing that death cannot hurt me, that no ostracization really matters, that I am a sheep who has been given the gift of eternal life – that’s what changes my behavior.
So, may I find ways of reminding myself of my belonging. May I ask for forgiveness when I forget. And may you do the same. That is my prayer to the Good Shepherd today. Amen. `
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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.
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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!
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Sunday school will be held at 8:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall across from Christ Memorial with beloved teachers Leona and Keana.
Masks are required.
Aloha ke akua.
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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!
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PRAYER REQUESTS THIS WEEK |
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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: Dan, Bill, Janice, Marilyn, Webb, David, Linda, David, Satya, Penny, Scott, Gordon, Bara, Helen, Noah, Hal, Rebecca Vockroth, the King family and Marcie Sweet and her family. We pray for the people of Ukraine and for those affected by the attacks in Buffalo and San Francisco. 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. |
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Thrift Store Hours :
Monday 2:00 pm -5:00 pm
Tuesday 2:00 pm -5:00 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am -12:30 pm
Thursday 2:00 pm -5:00 pm
Friday 2:00 pm -5:00 pm
Saturday 9:30 am -3:00 pm
Donations Accepted:
Monday 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Saturday 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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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
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Keep up-to-date with messages from the Bishop. Click on the buttons below to view the Bishop's weekly Monday & Wednesday messages, and find links to online worship in the Diocese. |
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Christ Memorial Episcopal Church
2509 Kolo Road, Kilauea, HI 96754
(808) 482-4824
Mailing Address: PO Box 293, Kilauea, HI 96754
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