The Messenger The Messenger CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS April 4, 2018 April Upcoming Dates 22 J’s Mini Mart April Board Meetings 08 Council Meeng 22 Deacons Meeng 29 Stewardship & Mission Meeng Anpan Man returns to Church of the Holy Cross’ annual Bake Sale and Letter Writing to our Congres- sional Delegates on Sunday, April 22, 2018. For our annual bake sale, we are asking members to provide baked goods, pickled vegetables, sushi rice, and any other types of prepared food. This event has always been well supported by the membership, so plan to bake or cook something for the sale and also come prepared to pur- chase the many deli- cious items. Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice, urging our na- tion’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. We provide help and opportunity far beyond the commu- nities in which we live by changing policies, programs, and condi- tions that allow hunger and poverty to persist. Please come prepared to sign letters to our senators and represent- atives in Congress to help end world hunger. Remember the date: Sunday, April 22, 2018. Letter writing will be held before services and the bake sale will be held after services. “Anpan Man” Returns to Bread for the World Annual Bake Sale and Letter Writing Pastor’s Evaluation Pastor Eric S. Anderson began his ministry at the Church of the Holy Cross on April 16, 2016. Our Church’s Policies for Pastor state that there should be an an- nual review by a com- mittee appointed by the Board of Trustees. The Church’s two past mod- erators, Sue Smith and Woody Kita, and cur- rent Moderator Gloria Kobayashi were as- signed to conduct the evaluation. Thank you to the se- lected members who already answered questions regarding the Pastor’s interac- tion and leadership for our Church. Sunday School children were also asked to evaluate Pastor Eric. However, after further discus- sion, it was decided that ALL members who live on the Island will be sent an evalua- tion questionnaire, which is being rede- signed for easier response. The com- mittee hopes that this process will also be a way to tell us how our church is doing.
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The MessengerThe Messenger
C H U R C H O F T H E H O L Y C R O S S
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A p r i l
U p c o m i n g D a t e s
22 J’s Mini Mart
A p r i l
B o a r d M e e t i n g s
08 Council Meeting
22 Deacons Meeting
29 Stewardship &
Mission Meeting
Anpan Man returns to Church of the Holy Cross’ annual
Bake Sale and Letter Writing to our Congres-sional Delegates on Sunday, April 22, 2018. For our annual bake sale, we are asking members to provide baked goods, pickled vegetables, sushi rice, and any other types of prepared food. This event has always been well supported by the membership, so plan to bake or cook something for the sale and also come prepared to pur-
chase the many deli-cious items. Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice, urging our na-tion’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. We provide help and opportunity far beyond the commu-nities in which we live by changing policies, programs, and condi-tions that allow hunger and poverty to persist. Please come prepared to sign letters to our senators and represent-atives in Congress to help end world hunger. Remember the date: Sunday, April 22, 2018. Letter writing will be held before services and the bake sale will be held after services.
“Anpan Man” Returns to Bread for the World
Annual Bake Sale and Letter Writing
Pastor’s Evaluation
Pastor Eric S. Anderson began his ministry at the Church of the Holy Cross on April 16, 2016. Our Church’s Policies for Pastor state that there should be an an-nual review by a com-mittee appointed by the Board of Trustees. The Church’s two past mod-erators, Sue Smith and Woody Kita, and cur-rent Moderator Gloria
Kobayashi were as-signed to conduct the evaluation.
Thank you to the se-lected members who already answered questions regarding the Pastor’s interac-tion and leadership for our Church. Sunday School children were also asked to evaluate Pastor Eric. However,
after further discus-sion, it was decided that ALL members who live on the Island will be sent an evalua-tion questionnaire, which is being rede-signed for easier response. The com-mittee hopes that this process will also be a way to tell us how our church is doing.
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From my perspective, with Lent over and East-er Sunday past, the Church can go “back to normal.” It’s the occasion to resume the routine, continue the customary, and sustain the status quo.
Which is a very wrong perspective.
Easter, I keep reminding myself (as I sigh with re-lief that the “extras” of Lent are over), is the Great Shake-Up of the World. It overturns the routine. It defies custom. It overwhelms the status quo.
“You want ordinary life?” shouts Easter: “Don’t you wish you may have it! No ordinary life for you:
“You get new life!”
The great powers of the world, like Rome, or Washington, or Moscow? They can be disregarded, if not ignored. All the
power they can apply fades to nothing against Easter.
The dominant belief systems of the world, like “might makes right,” and “me and mine first,” and “good people finish last”? They fall as well before Easter, where sacrifice triumphs, and the givers come first, and goodness arises.
Poverty? Oppression? Death itself? Sorry: You get to pass away, too. Easter is here, and whatever power you held is gone.
I gave up hamburgers for Lent. For Easter, we will all have to give up what’s ordinary.
In Easter, God has given us greatness.
With aloha,
Pastor Eric
Contact Pastor Eric
Office phone: 808-935-1283 Parsonage/cell phone: 808-464-4884
Email: [email protected] Instagram: esanderson_ucc Twitter: @esanderson
Facebook: facebook.com/rev.eric.anderson facebook.com/holycrosshilo
Bible Study With
Pastor Eric
We gather for:
Deep questions
Surprising wisdom
Unforgettable stories
Seeds of thought
Refreshment for the
spirit
Bible Study:
Genesis
Sundays 8:30 a.m.
J’s Cafe
Follow the Lectionary
Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. or
Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. in
The Pastor’s Study:
April 8
Acts 4:32-35
Psalm 133
1 John 1:1-2:2
John 20:19-31
April 15 Acts 3:12-19
Psalm 4 1 John 3:1-7
Luke 24:36b-48
The Pastor’s Corner Rev. Eric S. Anderson
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It is so satisfying to hear someone to say Church of the Holy Cross had “The best food in town” for blood donors. I’d say, “One of the Best.” It is important for us to have the donors so we can have a good supply of blood if and when it is needed. Donors deserve a good array of refresh-ments to have after they give their pint of precious blood. CHC members have been most generous of their talent and time to donate the food items and man and maintain the canteen area. We are most grate-ful for all who helped. Thank you to ladies who called people for a dona-tion: Bev Dodo Carol Morioka Eileen Shiraishi
Monitors who main-tained the canteen: Ann Kanahele Kay Kawachika Woody Kita Esther Kodani Ben Masutomi Reiko Masutomi Tammy Nagami Anne Sadayasu Eileen Shiraishi Moira Tanaka Sets Takemoto Lillian Tanouye Connie Yoshiyama Food Donors were: Janet Fujioka Mae Higashi Hats Kamimura Ann Kanahele Mary Ann Katayama Kay Kawachika Jane Kawazoe Anna Kennedy Esther Kodani Michi Koizumi Jennie Kondo
Linda Larson Ben Masutomi Reiko Masutomi Shirley Miyake Carol Morioka Joyce Nakamoto Irene Okada Susan Palea Anne Sadayasu Sue Smith Sets Takemoto Moira Tanaka Lisbeth Taniguchi Lillian Tanouye Margaret Torigoe Gail Wung Connie Yoshiyama THANK YOU ALL for donating blood, your time and your talents for us to be “The BEST!”
Couldn’t do it without you.
Thank you, Mahalo, Arigato
The Oahu based 1984th United States Army Hos-pital will conduct a two-week Innovative Readi-ness Training mission providing medical care to underserved communi-ties of Hawaii. Working closely with the Depart-ment of Health and other
private corporations, the 1984th USAH along with other mili-tary units are proud to serve the people in the community.
Come to Kea`au High School on June 18-20, 22-23, 25-28 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
This is for ALL ages, No I.D or Insurance needed.
For more information please contact the Public Health Nursing at 808-974-6035
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Strategic Planning Feedback
Our members care about where our church and our Hawaii Conference UCC are going. Strategic planning consultant Cyn-thia Scherr visited with East Hawaii UCC church-es at CHC on March 6 as part of the neighbor is-land feedback tour called “Huaka’i Saili Matagi: Finding our way forward. Special invitations were sent out to the “Under 40’s” group, which met from 5 to 6:15 pm. Christian and Theone Al-bano, Ashley Santo, and Amy Yamaki represented
our church and pre-sented their opinions and hopes for our Con-ference. Three ladies from Hilo Coast UCC also attended.
The main meeting was attended by sixteen adults, with our Church well represented by Janet Fujioka, Woody Kita, Gloria Kobayashi, Esther Kodani, Carolyn Lum-Bellem, Anita Mathews, Jayson Rekis, and Bob and Sue Smith. Representatives from Olaa, Opihikao and
First United Protestant also provided feed-back.
As a result of these Mokupuni meetings, Ms. Scherr and the Strategic Planning Committee will be re-vising the Mission and Vision statements, ad-dress the needs of young adults and young families, and ad-dress the ways we can include all of our di-verse congregations. Her report is due at the ‘Aha Pae’aina on June 9, 2018.
This Time is a celebration of my time studying Performing Arts here in Hilo. The audience will be introduced to my early foundations in music from when I first started choral music at Kamehameha Schools Maui, all the way up to my beginnings in musical theatre and then voice training at the University of Ha-wai'i at Hilo. This recital is one of my final requirements to complete to achieve the Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts, as I will be graduating this Spring!
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01 Higashi, Mae
05 Tanouye, Lillian
09 Johnson, Tanya
16 Lum-Bellem, Carolyn
16 Ikeda, Marie
24 Yamauchi, Joe
26 Enomoto, Yasuo
27 Matayoshi, Mary
27 Ushijima, Joy
27 Yamane, Miyeko
M a y
01 Nakamoto, Joyce
05 Kawachika, Kay
06 Nakamoto, Henry
16 Yanagihara, Sachiko
16 Olcott, Rev. Tom
17 Chen, Nancy
17 Lum, Nick
18 Chu, Roberta
19 Kita, Jean
20 Shiroma, Toshiko
20 Tanouye, Jonathan
21 Niimi, Mildred
21 Thoma, JP
25 Wung, Gail
25 Robert, Suboru
27 Kusinski, Leigh
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APRIL
VOLUNTEERS
U S H E R S
Moira Tanaka,
Newton & Roberta Chu
Sunday, April 8 Lay Reader
Latai Loa
Chapel Decoration
Janet Fujioka
Sunday, April 15 Lay Reader
Janet Fujioka
Chapel Decoration
Michi Koizumi
Sunday, April 22 Lay Reader
Woody Kita
Chapel Decoration
Millie Daikawa
Sunday, April 29 Lay Reader
Mary Ann Katayama
Chapel Decoration
Malia Mattos
The Messenger The Messenger is a bimonthly newsletter distributed by the Church of the Ho-ly Cross in Hilo. If you have an article you would like to submit, please send it via email in Word format to [email protected] or via postal service
by April 13, 2018.
Sunday Worship Service begins at 10:00 am
Pastor: Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Weekly at the Church of the Holy Cross
Bible Study: Sundays, 8:30 am, Wednesdays, 9:30 am and 6:30 pm
A Gathering Place: Mondays 9:00 am, Building of Faith.
IYAA Bible Study: Wednesdays, 7:30 pm in the Lounge.
Ballroom Dance: Wednesdays , 6:30 pm, Building of Faith.
Ron Fujiyoshi, Ohana Ho’opakele: Thursdays at 9:00 am in the Lounge.
Qigong : Fridays, 9:00 to 10:30 am, Building of Faith.
Other Congregations Worshiping Here
The United Church of Christ, Pohnpei – Rev. Bensis Henry: 10 am to 1pm in
the Building of Faith Meeting Room.
Bedesta Church - Pastor Edmes Edwin: 1:30 to 3:30 pm, Building of Faith,
Meeting Room
Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa, Hilo [CCCAS] -
Rev. Ausage and Rev. Rae Lelili`o: 12 to 1 pm in Sanctuary.
Islamic Center of Hawaii: Fridays, 1 to 3 pm, Building of Faith Meeting Room.
Church of the Holy Cross—UCC 440 West Lanikaula Street
Hilo, HI 96720
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CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS
440 West Lanikaula Street
Hilo, HI 96720
Office Hours
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Friday 8:30 am-12:00 pm
Ph. 808-935-1283
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