WEEKLY NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
May 29, 2022
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Phone Number: (808) 482-4824
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Sunday Worship
Seventh 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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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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THANK YOU TO THE REV
LOWELL E. GRISHAM
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Sadly, is time to say farewell to our Pastor in Residence, The Rev Lowell E. Grisham.
Thank you Lowell and and his wife Kathy, for the support and encouragement during your tenure with Christ Memorial. Your kind, wise and helpful presence will continue to have an impact on us moving forward. It was an absolute honor to have you here with us during these last few (rather interesting) months. We are eternally grateful and will always remember your efforts towards our successes. Many Mahalos and Blessings to you and your Ohana in your next chapter! A hui hou (until we meet again)!
-Your Christ Memorial Ohana
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ANNOUNCING THE PASSING OF THE REV ALAN DONOR MACNEICE
7 Jan 1934 - 20 May 2022
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In 1993 it was announced by Bishop Hart that The Rev Alan Donor MacNeice would be the new Vicar of Christ Memorial Episcopal Church, Kilauea, Kauai. Father MacNeice was a native of Ireland born in January 1934 and ordained in the Church of Ireland in the 1960s and received into the Episcopal Church in 1983. His ministry was in Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, England and the USA. Most of his service in the American Church before coming to Hawaii in 1993-2005 was in the Diocese of Newark, New Jersey under Bishop John Shelby Spong. He retired in 2005 and moved first to the Philippines for a short time and then to Cambodia by 2006 where he settled until his recent death on 20 May 2022.
In the 12 years he served at Christ Memorial he was very active with rebuilding the Thrift Shop and Parish Hall after Hurricane Iniki 9-11-1992, hosting his own radio show on KKCR sharing his love of Opera, a weekly prison ministry at the Kauai Community Correctional Center, ongoing connection to those in need on the North shore of Kauai, serving also at St Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanalei, and arranging for special speaking events attended by Bishop Spong and the 13th Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal.
Donor offered numerous trips for his parishioners to the Holy Lands, Ireland, England, and various third world countries in Southeast Asia including Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Bhutan, with stop overs in India, Japan, and South Korea. He always said it was important to go to the places where you were praying for its people. At the end of all his thoughtful and entertaining sermons was this closing prayer he shared after every communion:
You have brought us to the start of another week, O Lord. We know not what it will bring forth, but make us ready, Lord, for whatever it may be. If we are to stand up, help us to stand bravely. If we are to sit still, help us to sit quietly. If we are to lie low, help us to do it patiently. And if we are to do nothing, let us do it gallantly. Make these words more than words, and give us the Spirit of Jesus. AMEN.
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WATCH THE HENRY ADAM CURTIS
PIANO CONCERT
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On Saturday, May 21st, Hank wowed his audience with an evening of extraordinary music. He performed selections from his four albums of solo acoustic piano music, as well as new compositions and arrangements. If you missed the concert, click on the link below and enjoy! |
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CONCERT THIS SATURDAY
AT ALL SAINTS KAPAA
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WHAT IS THE CELLO SONGS PROJECT?
The Cello Songs Project features new arrangements of folk/pop/rock gems from Jonatha Brooke’s rich catalogue, plus new songs composed specifically for this project.
The Cello Songs Project is acclaimed singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke, and Rebecca Arons, cellist and producer. Both transplants from Massachusetts to the rich Minneapolis music scene, Jonatha and Rebecca have been collaborating since early workshops of Jonatha’s award-winning off-Broadway show, My Mother Has Four Noses. Jonatha and Rebecca also co-produced Jonatha’s 2016 release, Imposter.
Featuring Jonatha Brooke: voice, guitar, piano, mandolin, kalimba
Rebecca Arons: cello
Read more about the Cello Songs Project Here
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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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LOOKING WITHIN, RATHER THAN UP
Biblical scholars believe that the same person who wrote the Gospel we call Luke also wrote The Acts of the Apostles. So it is interesting that, as we celebrate Jesus’s Ascension, we read the closing verses of Luke and the opening verses of Acts—which recount the same event. Luke closes with Jesus opening the apostles’ minds to the meaning and fulfillment of the scriptures, his final blessing upon them, and, in the midst of that blessing, his ascension to heaven.
Acts records with the same event—only with different details. In Acts, two angels appear after Jesus ascends. They bring the apostles back to earth, so to speak, with a forthright question: “Why are you standing around, staring up at heaven?”And, they are right: we tend to focus on the image of Jesus flying up to heaven rather than consider about what his leave-taking means.
The scene has been depicted in art thousands of times over the centuries, by everyone from Donatello (the sculptor, not the teenage mutant ninja turtle) to Salvador Dali, in icons, and paintings, and reliefs and stained-glass windows. One of the strangest ways the scene is depicted the scene shows Christ’s feet dangling at the top edge of the scene, as if he were performing an Olympic high dive in the wrong direction.
Yet, the angels remind us that focusing upward is pointless, a hindrance to getting about the holy charge that Christ left with us, that of witnessing to truth in the world. It’s an awesome responsibility and an honor. It is a sign of how very much Jesus loves us – and every bit as breathtaking as his laying down his life for us on the cross. Jesus loves us so much that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, he commissions each and every one of his followers to carry on his holy work of redemption, reconciliation, and healing into the world: to carry him and bear his image within ourselves for the sake of the world.
It is so easy, I know, to think heaven will solve all of our problems. We will especially hear about people talking about “thoughts and prayers” this week as people of conscience are rocked with grief at another horrific school shooting, this time in Uvalde, Texas. Every single time, we hear politicians with a financial and partisan interest in the status quo murmur about praying to heaven, and then shrug off any responsibility to actually work for the common good.
There is a reason Luke tells this story twice, with this different emphasis. The Gospels are about Jesus’s ministry on Earth. The Book of the Acts of the Apostles is about the apostles, disciples, and us taking up our own ministries, which is the work of the Church. Jesus’s ascension is NOT about Jesus abandoning us to go back to heaven.
The story told in Acts is meant to build up our courage so that we may joyfully take up the mission he loves us enough to entrust to us: to take up our call not as observers but as disciples; to actively proclaim Jesus’s gospel of love and reconciliation in the world.
It is about hearing that question directed at us: “Why are you standing there, looking up at heaven?”
The question is posed in love and in encouragement. With Jesus’s ascension, WE are Christ’s Body in the world. It is up to us to literally embody Jesus’s gospel in our lives, our attitudes, our words, and our actions.
Being a Christian is NOT a spectator sport. Being a Christian calls us to not only transform OUR own lives, but to make visible to the world the possibility of its transformation and restoration. Being a Christian is a social and political act, and act of hope, bravery, and enduring willingness to see the potential and the beauty within this Earth and within every inhabitant of it.
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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: Bobbi, Art and the Young family, Dan, Bill, Janice, Marilyn, Webb, David, Linda, David, Satya, Penny, Scott, Gordon, Bara, Helen, Noah, Hal, the King family and the Sweet family. We pray for The Rev. Alan Donor MacNeice as he ascends into heaven. We pray for the people of Ukraine and for those affected by the attacks in Buffalo, San Francisco and Uvalde, Texas. 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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