March 19, 2025

Join us for the Diocese's Annual Chrism Mass & Spring Training event being held at The Cathedral of St. Andrew on Saturday, April 5, 2025. The day will begin at 9:00 AM with the Chrism Mass and Eucharist, that will include the Renewal of Clergy Vows and Baptismal Vows. 

Spring Training will commence immediately following the Chrism Mass, hosted by the Diocese's new Huli team, a collaborative effort involving three Diocesan ministries: Kahuaola (formerly the Creation Care and Environmental Justice Task Force), the Racial Reconciliation Task Force, and the Native Hawaiian Ministry Committee. (Read more about Huli and the their mission for 2025 below, following the workshops.) There will be two plenary sessions and an afternoon session with several different workshops to choose from.

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION FOR YOUR PREFERRED LUNCH OPTION IS THURSDAY, MARCH 20. Late registrants may not get the lunch option of their choice. FINAL DEADLINE IS SUNDAY, MARCH 30, AT 11:59 P.M.

PLENARY SESSIONS:

Mālama ʻĀina with Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio, who will talk about caring and honoring our land. Dr. Osorio is Dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. He received his PhD in History from the University of Hawaiʻi. At Kamakakūokalani, he has developed and taught classes in history, literature, law as culture, music as historical texts, and research methodologies for and from indigenous peoples. He is also a composer and singer and has been a Hawaiian music recording artist since 1975.

Hōkūleʻa: Moananuiākea: A Voyage for Oceans, A Voyage for Earth - Our special guest speaker from the Polynesian Voyaging Society will talk about Hōkūleʻa’s 15th major voyage, Moananuiākea. At the core of Hōkūleʻa’s creation was exploration – to uncover, recover, and reclaim our culture, traditions, and our relationship to home and our island earth. Moananuiākea is no different, but we now move from exploration and understanding to mālama, or caring, and kuleana, or taking responsibility. 

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP SELECTIONS: (Pick one)

ABOUT HULI: The team, led by the Revs. Jazzy Bostock, Jenn Latham and Bree Lloyd, was awarded a Creation Care Grant from The Episcopal Church and named their year-long project Huli: Ka lima i lalo, which means to turn the hand down. When our hands are turned down, they are working, they are productive, and they are stewarding that which is in front of them. This ‘ōlelo noʻeau invokes the image of hands planted in the lepo (dirt, earth) as they care for ʻāina. These hands are not just turned up waiting for something to happen or waiting for others to step in. They are taking initiative, they are planting and connecting, serving, helping, and stewarding well the kuleana (responsibility, privilege) they are given. They are caring well for ʻāina as well as for other kanaka, and it is from that place of both connection and action, that there is ola (life and health). 

From a Hawaiian perspective, the health and well-being of both ʻāina and kanaka are tied, and kanaka has a kuleana to mālama (care for) this relationship. When ʻāina is sick, we become sick, and when it is thriving, we also thrive; and vice versa. We see this in the cultivation of kalo. Kalo needs to be planted and tended to in order to thrive. While it can grow on its own, it responds best to the care of kanaka. This relationship, in and of itself, is lifegiving to both people and ʻāina, and, when cultivated well, the result is good, healthy, healing ʻai (food, taro) that nourishes us in mind, body, and spirit.

Huli ka lima i lalo is a year of creation care centered events, beginning with this Spring training and continuing into the summer with virtual online events. It will wrap up with a service/education day during Convention 57 in October. This special collaboration is weaving mālama ʻāina through their shared work and activities throughout 2025.

Please join them on this journey to huli or transform our hearts, minds, and hands to continue and carry on this important call and responsibility in the Diocese and the world.

Fee is $25 and includes lunch. Don't let the registration fee or interisland airfare be a barrier -- assistance is available to help cover these costs!

For more information, visit the Chrism Mass & Spring Training event webpage HERE. Child care will also available. If you are ready to register, you may click on the button below!

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION FOR YOUR PREFERRED LUNCH OPTION IS THURSDAY, MARCH 20.

FINAL DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS SUNDAY, MARCH 30, AT 11:59 PM.

(Those registering after March 20 may not get the lunch of their choice.)