Past Services

Sunday Service: The Holiness of Silent Saturday

Apr 12, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Pastor Keola Whittaker

The week after Easter, we turn our attention to a day the church often skips: Silent Saturday. The day between the cross and the empty tomb, when the story has not yet resolved. Many of us know Silent Saturday not as a day on the calendar but as a season of life – our own long middle, waiting, the not-yet. This service offers a word of welcome to all who are still in Saturday. You belong here. We discover together that even the waiting is holy ground.

Sunday Service: Springtime Charm and Fierce Resistance

Apr 05, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson

Following weeks of storms and flooding, with streams and aina saturated, and families are displaced, our hearts are tender. Yet now the bright insistence of spring inspires, comforts, and brings hope. We will honor the beauty that returns after the waters recede and the spirit of ohana that has activated generosity and volunteers. Facing the effects of the floods and the threats to normalcy in our nation, we will recommit to standing with those affected by our recent floods or threatened with loss of rights or safety. Please bring a flower to share.

Sunday Service: Only Connect - Prose and Passion, Self and Soul, Eros and Agape

Mar 29, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson

We live as if we are separate — divided by religion, race, ethnicity, language, country, state, sex, gender, body and spirit, by reason and desire, by the love we earn and the love we freely give. But the poets and mystics have always known otherwise.
Drawing on the prophetic imagination of William Blake, the luminous symbols of W.B. Yeats, and the quiet revolutionary epiphany of E.M. Forster, this sermon explores the ancient and urgent truth beneath all spiritual traditions: that the fragments are the illusion, and the connection is the reality.
A Japanese sword wrapped in a court lady’s torn silk. A marriage of heaven and hell. A house that holds what modernity keeps trying to divide. Three writers. One insistence.
Across all people. Across all beings. Only connect.

Sunday Service: Tending History, Tending the Future

Mar 22, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Rev. Samantha Wilson

Please join us for worship this Sunday as we welcome Rev. Sam from Hope for Us!

Sunday Service: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

Mar 15, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Mary MacKay

The American myth celebrates Immigration but the story has always been complex – witness the “Irish” once vilified, now celebrated and the current backlash and racialization of asylum and entry.  Our nation’s southern border has long been a place where cultures both mix and collide — and divisions of race, class, and national origin create an endlessly shifting pattern of opportunity and injustice.  Join us, as we celebrate St Patrick’s Day and explore the story of 40 Irish orphans in Arizona circa 1904 — and what it means to be American.

Sunday Service: "The UUies: An Awards Themed Service"

Mar 08, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Pastor Keola Whittaker

The 8th Annual UU Movie & TV Awards makes its Honolulu debut after seven years in California! This fun, interactive service reveals the surprising, inspiring, and sometimes scandalous connections between Hollywood and Unitarian Universalist history. We’ll present four awards connecting films and performances to UU values and our radical past, plus “Wait, Wait… Don’t Nominate Me!” where two brave volunteers compete in a live quiz show testing their knowledge of Hollywood’s UU connections. Whether you’re a movie buff, a history nerd, or just curious about where Oscar night meets religious rebellion, expect laughter, learning, and surprises.

Sunday Service: "Our Spiritual Home"

Mar 01, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speakers: Dan Carpenter and Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson

Once the gracious mansion of a missionary sugar baron, our church was reborn as a haven for worship, service, and justice. Within these walls—shaped by history yet alive with new purpose—we gather to reflect on the sacredness of care. How does tending to this beloved space mirror our tending of spirit and community? From plumbing to Feng Shui, from reverence to repair, we celebrate the transforming power of love that turns privilege into promise and a house into our spiritual home.

Sunday Service: Love in the Time of AI

Feb 22, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Pastor Keola Whittaker

In a world where nearly one-third of Americans now have romantic relationships with AI, we face an urgent question: What is love? This sermon explores why love requires bodies that can be wounded, why the fear of loss is inseparable from love itself, and what it means to choose transformation over comfort.

Sunday Service: "Intersecting Faiths - InterFaith Harmony Month"

Feb 15, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Rev. Deborah Bond-Upson

Where do we converge? Imagine the beliefs of our world religions overlaid in a single multi-orb Venn image. Join us to experience the intersection of Hindu, Bahai, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Unitarian Universalist faiths. Let us focus together on the jewel all faiths share.

Sunday Service: "Healing and Accountability: Dignifying our Pasts"

Feb 08, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Speaker: Rev. Samantha Wilson

FUCH is looking to its 75th anniversary in 2028. What value might there be in looking at its past to celebrate its future — including looking at places that are harder to look at together? Our Hope for Us Coach, Rev. Samantha Wilson, will share her reflections on healing and accountability through the lessons of her own ancestors and the peace-making efforts of healers who try to make a different future possible by tending their community’s pasts.