by admin | Mar 24, 2016 | Message from Kahu, Uncategorized
During this very special week, we will celebrate Holy Communion at 7 p.m. on Thursday evening…decorate Easter eggs and enjoy lunch with our children and their families on Friday from 10 to noon…and celebrate the resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ with an Easter sunrise service, breakfast, worship and luncheon/Easter egg hunt. See our NEWS page for all of the details.
During our worship service on Easter, I will wrap up our time with Diana Butler Bass’ book Grounded: Finding God in the World, A Spiritual Revolution. Resurrection and the message of Easter is not an escape from the world but an call to fully live in the world and care for it as God’s beloved creation. Come and find God in the world! Join the spiritual revolution!
Aloha nui!
Kahu Alan Akana
“A Message from Kahu Alan Akana” is provided most weeks by the Kahu (Pastor) of Koloa Union Church, a congregation of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a member of the Kauai Association and Hawaii Conference. Join us at 3289 Poipu Road in Koloa!
by admin | Mar 16, 2016 | Message from Kahu
On Sunday, I shared with the congregation about the neighborhood in which I was raised. I was supported, encouraged and given guidance and wisdom from other neighbors. The couple who owned the neighborhood grocery store even gave me a weekend job for a year so that I could save up money for college. Because of my neighborhood, I became who I am today.
Diana Butler Bass, in her book Grounded, writes:
When we love our neighbor as ourselves, we build sacred connections between the spaces we inhabit.
There was something sacred, something spiritual happening in the neighborhood of my childhood and teenage years. It was sacred because of the connections that happened when people loved their neighbors. And I am very grateful!
In our Gospel reading on Sunday, a man asked Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life; and then he answered his own question, based upon the teachings of the Old Testament:
Love God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
This man wanted to know who is neighbor was. Jesus moved the conversation from drawing circles around our homes in order to define our neighbors to discussing the importance of acting with compassion toward all people.
Who is your neighbor today and this week? How will you act with compassion toward him or her? How will you build sacred connections with this person…and help him/her to become who he/she might be in the future?
Aloha nui!
Kahu Alan Akana
by admin | Mar 15, 2016 | News
Maundy Thursday, March 24 (7:00 p.m.)
We will worship on this special evening with a communion service in remembrance of Jesus’ last supper.
Good Friday, March 25 (10 a.m. to noon)
Children and their families will decorate easter Eggs and have lunch in Moore Hall. (The eggs will be used in the Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday). Please sign up if your children plan to attend.
Easter Sunday, March 27
6:30 a.m. Multi-church Sunrise Service at Kukuiolono Park in Kalaheo
9:00 a.m. Breakfast in Moore Hall
10:30 a.m. Easter Sunday Worship Service in the Sanctuary and Sunday School in Moore Hall
11:45 a.m. Easter Egg Hunt & lunch at the Parsonage (3281 Waikomo Rd)
We hope you can join us for Holy Week at Koloa Union Church, a congregation of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a member of the Kauai Association and Hawaii Conference. Join us at 3289 Poipu Road in Koloa!
by admin | Mar 15, 2016 | News
One Great Hour of Sharing
This special offering of the United Church of Christ supports disaster relief, refugee support and development throughout the world. We will collect the OGHS offering on Palm Sunday (March 20), Maundy Thursday (March 24) and Easter Sunday (March 27). Please use the special offering envelope provided in your bulletin on those dates or write “OGHS” on your check. Mahalo nui for your generosity!
Final Soup Supper, Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The last of our six Lenten soup suppers will be this Wednesday. Soup served at 6:00 pm in Moore Hall. At approximately 6:45 pm we will continue our discussion on “Getting Grounded” as we focus on Chapter 6 (“Neighborhood”) in the book Grounded: Finding God in the World, A Spiritual Revolution by Diana Butler Bass. Please join us.
Palm Sunday, March 20, 2016
The children will open our worship service with the annual procession of the palms during the opening hymn. Children are invited to be at church by 10:15 a.m. to receive palm branches and processional instructions.
“Weekly News of the Church” is provided by Koloa Union Church, a congregation of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a member of the Kauai Association and Hawaii Conference. Join us at 3289 Poipu Road in Koloa!
by admin | Mar 11, 2016 | News
One Great Hour of Sharing
This special offering of the United Church of Christ supports disaster relief, refugee support and development throughout the world. We will collect the OGHS offering on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday. Please use the special offering envelope provided in your bulletin on those dates or write OGHS on your check. Mahalo nui for your generosity!
Lenten Soup Suppers
Wednesday in Lent through March 16, a soup dinner will be served at 6:00 pm and discussion to follow. This year’s theme: “Getting Grounded,” as we focus on the book “Grounded: Finding God in the World, A Spiritual Revolution” by Diana Butler Bass. Please join us.
“Weekly News of the Church” is provided by Koloa Union Church, a congregation of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a member of the Kauai Association and Hawaii Conference. Join us at 3289 Poipu Road in Koloa!
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