Aloha mai kākou, June is a very big month for us, it is Pride Month, and much is happening- highlights: 6/14 – Sunday service by Pastor Keola “Come Home: A Pride Sermon on the Body as Holy Ground.” 6/19 – Juneteenth – some of us are chatting about an honoring on Friday, as well as […]
Aloha mai kākou, Seeing more sunlight? It’s June! And with this June brightness, we have more opportunities to honor, celebrate, study, and support together! “What’s Laughter Got to Do With It” – This Sunday, we are looking at how humor lifts our spirits and our lives, and considering how religions have employed it from Jesus to […]
Aloha mai kākou, The buzz in our sanctuary last Sunday was palpable! It was delightful to see and hear congregants chatting about concepts of the divine before the service began, listening to the wonderful, unique statements from 14, continuing in the Gallery, and with some of us in a Talk Story after. If you missed […]
Aloha mai kākou, Congregant initiatives are growing! Social Justice Learning Circles In June, new member John-Paul Chaisson-Cardenas will begin a series of monthly Zoom Social Justice sessions featuring informative presentations and conversations. Stay tuned for more info on these weekday evening events. Email SocialJustice@unitariansofhi.org if you want to brainstorm topics or be involved. Lay Pastoral […]
Aloha mai kākou, Sunday, we enjoyed a moving, personal, impassioned, rousing service by Zac Fraser – you can see it, and any of our services, on our website or in our YouTube channel. By the way, it would be great if you would go to our UUHonolulu YouTube channel and click “subscribe.” We have 109 […]
Aloha mai kākou, Our Talk Story after our “Mind, Heart, & Soul Continuum – from Youth to Elder” service was lively and productive! Here are 5 ideas that came from about 20 of us gathered in the Study, talking about opportunities and acknowledgment we might offer across the age continuum. In Talk Story: 1) Restoring […]
Aloha mai kākou, Just landed last night from Sacramento and environs! It was an honor, a pleasure, and an opportunity to represent our congregation at the UU Pacific West Regional Assembly “Rising Resilient.” I wanted to connect with other congregations, meet folks for ideas and mutual support, and especially to learn how they are handling […]
Aloha mai kākou, On the heels of these damaging floods, this past week, our church has been active together and in our larger world in many ways. Spring is here, and we have a spring in our step as we encounter challenges and blessings and seek to care for our church community and beyond. On […]
Aloha kākou, beloveds in this time of heavy rains, Many of us are dealing with flooding, damage, power loss, and disruption, and one family, the Cranfords, has had to leave their flooded home. Our hearts are with everyone impacted, and we’re grateful that all appear to be safe and that so much care is being […]
‘Aloha from California! How are you? As I headed to my ride to HNL on March 12th, a gutter collapsed above my head, and I brought some Kona Lows rain with me to California, soaked as I was. But I just missed the March 13th record-breaking 5.5 inches of rain in a day record you […]
Aloha mai kakou! Early tomorrow morning, I leave for a week in California for time with my family. Preparing for this brief trip, I am reflecting on all that First Unitarian Church of Honolulu members are doing to sustain and grow our church and to reach out and engage with our larger community! We are […]
On Sunday, we enjoyed our Spiritual Home together. After hearing more of Dan and other members’ amazing feats in restoring and maintaining our beloved church, our Meditation Walk and Feng Shui Four Corner Blessings, congregants wrote reflections – appreciation, hopes, and suggestions. Honoring and appreciation for our church building, especially for the generosity and capabilities […]
Aloha members and friends! Growing up, my mother told us, “The one true evil is divisiveness.” Already a good questioning 12-year-old Unitarian (this was before we merged with Universalism), I questioned- how could divisiveness be the ONE true evil? There are so many evils! But then, like a good 13-year-old Unitarian, I thought about it. […]
What a wonderful week – from meeting with interfaith leaders from across the state, and two from the national InterFaith Alliance, Washington DC office, to our InterFaith service with exquisite music led by our Beth Beyers, and beautifully delivered by our pianist Noe Baladad and by our choir, to our New Member Orientation! We have […]
Our Social Justice Growth Our incredible, indefatigable, stalwart team of Marie Anne and Francine Less welcomes four new members to support our justice work in our larger community. We are thrilled to welcome Zach Fraser, Keif Ariola, Sorcha McCarrey, and Paul Davis to our expanded Social Justice team. Help for Us – Year 2 This […]
Sunday we gathered after Keola Whittaker’s moving message “The Thaw” for our first Sunday of the month Town Hall. We had much to discuss. Sue asked me to show the assembled our new website first. Our incredibly skilled office manager, Suzette, manages much! And she managed to do much to help our web developer Naomi […]
UU in our Larger Community Today (well, last night in particular) I hope you will join us on Sunday for “UU Heroes Then & Now.” Some of our own members and leaders were heroes in my book for bringing the ACLU Resistance Training to our sanctuary last night. It was full with over 100 attending! […]
We are Unitarian Universalists, guided by love and reason, aiming for peace and happiness – for all. What a challenging time to be us. To be UUs. Are you, like me, wondering how we can: Know enough to achieve deep understanding and considered awareness? Fulfill our role in our current environment of shocking abuses? […]
We are gearing up for the holidays! From the moving Winter Spiral, to UU Yule-Advent candles, to choir singing breathtakingly beautiful carols, to preparations for our “No Rehearsal Nativity Pageant,” the spirit is in the air! Please contact me if you would you like to help put on the pageant – it is going to […]
This past week has been a powerful celebration of community! From the Nu’uanu Valley Thanksgiving service with record attendance promoted by our own Marie Anne and others, to Thomas, Sorcha and our choir performing beautifully. To Crystal’s beautiful reading of Rev. Gary Kowalski’s Peace poem that seemed to bring all our faith communities together. I was […]
