On Sunday, we continued our series on “Pay It Forward: And Who Is My Neighbor?” Our focus was Sharing Aloha with Children and Youth. It was an honor to have four high school students from Kamehameha Schools join us to help lead our worship service with music and inspiring message. Each of the four shared about ways they have reached out into their various communities and also talked about their hopes for how churches will reach out to young people.
As I think about ways that we might reach out to the children and youth of our community, I invite you to be part of our vision. Most of our members and regular attendees have received a paper heart in the mail by now (and anyone can pick up a heart at church or make your own out of card stock); I invite you to write on your heart the kinds of people with particular kinds of needs that you think God might be calling us to pay attention to in the coming year. Please bring it to church on or before Sunday, November 6, so that we can put all of the paper hearts on a banner and ask God to give us compassion and wisdom for all of the people listed. Please also bring your commitment card for 2017 on November 6 so that we can include it in our “Blessing of Commitments” during our worship service on that day.
In the meantime, I invite you to continue praying the following prayer with me, as you consider your commitment to our church’s future outreach and mission:
O God, as we seek to reach out into our community by sharing aloha with everyone in the coming year, open my heart so that love will freely flow in and out of it.
May the commitment I make truly represent the gratitude I have to you for all that Koloa Union Church means to me.
Amen!
Aloha nui!
Kahu Alan Akana
To see a video of Kahu’s sermon on Sunday, click HERE.
“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.
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