THIS SUNDAY: May 6, 2018
The Sixth Sunday of Easter (B)
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Acts 10:44-48
1 John 5:1-6
John 15:9-17
Psalm 98
8:00AM
Cami Pascua(EM)
Judy Saronitman(U)
Diane Sato(AG)
9:30AM
Mary Margaret Smith (EM)
Joan Roughgarden &
Nelson Secretariio (R)
David & Linda Crocker (U)
Jan Hashizumi (AG)
Noah & Enrico(A)
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Sunday, May 6 |11:00 AM Youth Room
Mothers' Day Prep
Monday, May 7 | 8:00AM
Monday Crew
Wednesday, May 16 | 5:00-8:30PM
Laundry Love Team A (Kapa'a Laundromat)
First Thursday of the Month | 8:00AM
Eucharistic Healing Service
Thursday, May 24| 7:00PM
Daughters of the King (Memorial Hall)
Every Wednesday | 6PM
McMaster Slack Key Guitar
and Ukulele Concert (Church)
Every Thursday | 6PM
Choir Practice (Choir Room)
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FOLLOW REV. RYAN ON THE CAMINO de SANTIAGO
"A Journey of a Million Steps"
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You are invited to walk with Rev. Ryan on his pilgrimage. Simply click the link below to keep up with his daily reflections. Please note: this is a "
live link". It will automatically update daily with Rev. Ryan's latest post. Check in every day through your
Epistle.
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Memorial Service for Jane Asher
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There will be a memorial service for long-time All Saints’ member Jane Asher on Friday, May 4th at 10am at the United Church of Christ, Kapaa (1315 Ulu St). Please join Jane’s family and friends to remember her extraordinary life.
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WORK DAY
Saturday, April 28
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In spite of a light turnout of volunteers we managed to get a lot accomplished at our recent work day. We started at 8:00AM and were pau just after noon.
Mahalo to Bill Brown, CeCe Caldwell, David and Linda Crocker, Wayne Doliente, Cheryl Glenn, Mary Margaret Smith and Chris Wataya for their support of this work day. All Saints’ is blessed to have such dedicated volunteers.
We cleared and reorganized the Sloggett storage area. That was a HUGE project and the result is a HUGE improvement! It required taking two full truckloads of “stuff” to the dump – one to Kapa’a and one to Lihue. A third load is out front of the Rectory waiting to go to Restore Kaua’i.
The church windows (exteriors) were cleaned. Special mahalo to Cheryl Glenn.
The Labyrinth was repainted. Special mahalo to CeCe, Linda Crocker, and Wayne D.
Two large planters were relocated from the front of the church to temporary locations on the front lanai of the Columbarium. These planters will eventually be part of a new garden/entryway to the Columbarium.
Another special mahalo to Wayne D. for taking care of the recycling (and trash!) at the back of the gym kitchen.
Me ke aloha,
David
For the Buildings and Grounds Ministry
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Da All Saints’ Shadow
Providing Answers to Your Questions
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Why are there big pots in front of the Columbarium?
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Addition to Columbarium Lanai
Some of you may have noticed (how could you not!) the pots standing on the lanai at the front of the Columbarium. I hear you say "What are they thinking?!" Let me put your concerns to rest. The pots have been moved to the Columbarium lanai only temporarily. They will eventually be used as features in a more landscaped entry to the Columbarium.
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A commitment to give one’s time, talents and treasure as an expression of faith and a personal response to God’s generosity.
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Quarter Pledge Statements are being mailed out this week.
Many thanks to those of you who submitted pledge cards for 2018. We are so grateful for everyone’s financial pledges and support as this is what enables us to carry out the ministry of Jesus Christ at All Saints’ Church. Our budget is primarily funded by individual pledges made by you, our members and their families. If you have not pledged for this year please consider doing so – it’s never too late. Please also remember that a pledge is a statement of intent, not a legal obligation. It can be changed at any time.
Based on pledge and plate income during the first 3 months of this year, we will need to very carefully manage our expenses for the rest of the year.
Unfortunately, while many of us are able to get away and take a vacation during the year, we need to remember that our bills never take a vacation!
But this is not just about paying the bills. It is also about supporting our Church ‘Ohana and the wider community. Your pledge and plate offerings support a surprising variety of church and community-related activities including Laundry Love, the Ke Akua Youth Group and our Sunday School. We have a positive impact on the wider community through those organizations which make use of our facilities – e.g. Tongan Church, 7
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Day Adventists, N.A., Al-Anon, Child and Family Services, Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts, K.I.S.S. concerts, McMasters’ Slack Key concerts, and various groups who raise funds with car washes.
We are living into our vision and becoming
“A Center for Worship, Education, Outreach and the Arts”.
None of this would be possible without your support.
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Please consider this a friendly reminder to stay current with your pledge as it allows us to stay current with our budget. If you haven’t pledged, please remember – it’s never too late!
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We are so blessed by the faithfulness of our church community. Mahalo nui loa for your support.
Ke Akua pu me ‘oukou – God be with you all.
David
Senior Warden
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Christian Formation Opportunity
Adult Bible Study
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When: Beginning Sunday, May 13th,9:00-9:30 am (between the two services)
Where: South end of Memorial Hall
Joe Adorno, Eucharistic Minister, Vestry member, Sunday school teacher, and 8:00 o’clock service attendee, will lead our new Bible study class. During each session we will discuss the assigned gospel reading for the day. Joe asks that you bring your Bible to class. We look forward this opportunity to better understand and appreciate the weekly scriptures through group study.
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APRIL COLLECTION FOR HALE HO'OMALU
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Canned Items - Soups, Chili, Pork & Beans, Spam, Vienna Sausage
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Please place your donations in the red wagon by the door to the sanctuary on Sundays. Hale Ho'omalu also needs and appreciates monetary donations as well as gift-in-kind items.
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All Saints’ Medical Equipment Loan Ministry Has Surpassed 50 Donations Of Equipment!
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The MEL Ministry has been blessed by the generosity of both the All Saints' Ohana and the larger Kauai community. Thanks to their donations, we now have more than 50 pieces of equipment ready to loan to anyone in need; walkers, crutches, rollators, shower chairs, and other pieces of durable medical equipment.
The ministry has loaned equipment to both Kauai residents and visitors. Some loans have lasted a few weeks, others are long term to assist patients in declining health. The case managers at Wilcox Hospital have begun to refer discharged patients to our Ministry for equipment needed to assist in recovery from a medical procedure.
The Medical Equipment Loan Ministry currently has four members, CeCe and Bill Caldwell, David Murray, and Bill Brown. Duties include receiving donations and checking them into inventory, loaning equipment, and cleaning and safety checking equipment. We have a dedicated MEL mobile phone (
808-431-1306
) by which we can receive donations and equipment request phone calls and answer any questions you may have. Please consider joining this greatly appreciated ministry.
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PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
After Helping Clean the Beach, PARTY!
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This Week in Sunday School
"STEPHEN, THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR"
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Stephen is one of seven men chosen to serve the Lord as deacons. The authorities arrest Stephen because they are angry at what he says to them and to the people. Stephen preaches words of reproach to the authorities, who are so enraged that they stone him to death. But at his stoning, Stephen prays for those who are killing him, a reminder of Jesus’ prayer on the cross asking his Father to forgive those who have put him to death.
Stephen loved Jesus, and paid with his life—the cost of discipleship. Sometimes we also pay a price for standing up for Christian values, for standing up for Christ. Whenever we speak out against hatred or injustice in Christ’s name, whenever we speak out for Christian compassion and for God’s justice in the world, whenever we defend someone or some group that is being attacked unfairly, we are witnessing to Christ. And our witness sometimes carries a price— the price of ridicule or contempt, condemnation, and—rarely—persecution and even death. Most of us would not be asked to sacrifice our life as Stephen was. But we are often asked to sacrifice our integrity, our honesty or our Christian sense of ethics. Most of us will not die for our faith. But we might often be faced with the choice to compromise our beliefs, to settle for less than love of God and love of our neighbor. We may feel pressure not to confess openly to our Christian faith and life. We may be tempted to be more “worldly” in this very secular culture. We need the courage to risk our spiritual life, as Stephen risked and then lost his physical life. Maybe sometimes we feel unable to proclaim publicly our faith in Christ, because of the emotional “stoning” that we anticipate even before it would happen. Christians persecuted for their faith—from the earliest days of the Church up to the present time—face this struggle, whether to walk with Christ openly or to love him secretly. Remember that love, compassion and mercy are always part of the Christian ethic. These qualities are required of us as Christians, even in the way we treat our persecutors. Our discipleship—what we stand up for—must also proclaim, as we promise in our Baptismal Covenant, the “Good News of God in Christ.” This means that we are to proclaim the triumph of love over hatred, mercy over vengeance, justice over oppression, forgiveness over condemnation. As Stephen pleaded in his last words, following Jesus’ words on the cross: “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.”
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To learn more, please follow our Sunday School curriculum. Click on the link here and get the full story.
Our Keiki, Our Future!
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DAUGHTERS OF THE KING
Spring Assembly Coming Up
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Episcopal Women of the Diocese of Hawai'i are invited to attend the Spring Assembly of the Order of the Daughters of the King, on Saturday, May 19, 2018, at the Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens workshop, from 10:00 AM. to 2:00 PM. The Gardens are located at 45-680 Luluku Road, Kaneohe, Oahu.
Light breakfast refreshments will be served before the business meeting gets underway. Demonstrations of plant and floral decorations will be conducted before and during lunch. Members and guests are requested to bring their own lunch (brown bag meal), however chips, beverages, water and assorted desserts will be provided by Assembly chapters.
Prayer, Service, Evangelism... its more than a motto and definitely a pledge of honor, spirit and duty of every DOK member in Hawai'i. Current Executive Officers are, S. Kala Holden, President, Angie Hamasaki, Vice President, Adele Thomas, Secretary and Luella Windisch, Treasurer. Assembly Chaplain is the Rev. Ernesto Pasalo.
For more information, please call Kala Holden at (808) 672-4692 or e-mail her at
kala3@hawaii.rr.com
. You can also visit the DOK webpage
HERE.
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Presiding Bishop Joins Worldwide Anglican Communion Campaign Calling for Prayer
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For the second year, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has joined the worldwide Anglican Communion in
Thy Kingdom Come
, a campaign initiated by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby calling for prayer by individuals, congregations and families.
Thy Kingdom Come
is a global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray between Ascension Day (May 10) and Pentecost (May 20) for more people to come to know Jesus.
"Jesus taught us to pray 'Thy kingdom come, thy will be done'," Presiding Bishop Curry said in a video message for
Thy Kingdom Come
available
HERE
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Resources
A wide selection of resources and information are available to participate in many ways in Thy Kingdom Come, designed for both personal and group devotions and meditations.
- Extensive resources for the 11 Days Of Prayer are located HERE.
- #Pledge2pray - sign up HERE to participate in the worldwide #Pledge2pray movement
- #ThyKingdomCome
- Pray for 5 HERE - indicate five people - family or friends or others - that you will pray for during Thy Kingdom Come
- List prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of sorrow and forgiveness, prayers for help HERE
- Prayer resources that can be downloaded at no fee are HERE.
- Join the Facebook page HERE.
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During Rev. Ryan's sabbatical Chris Neumann, CeCe Caldwell and Bill Caldwell will be publishing your
Epistle
. We encourage you to submit your ideas, announcements, photos, videos, articles, or stories for publication in your
Epistle
. We will work with you to craft your story. You give us the idea, we have a brief chat with you to outline the story, and you give us a quote if that is comfortable for you. It should only take five or ten minutes at your convenience. We take it from there!
MAHALO!
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IN BRIEF . . .
These news briefs were featured in previous issues of "The Epistle"
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PLATE COLLECTION FOR MALAMA KAUA`I
We are pleased to inform you that our “free plate offering” Sunday, April 22nd amounted to $2,023 and we have since received additional donations amounting to $600. We also have commitments from friends of the church on the mainland who will be sending contributions by mail. A donation of $2,623 has been sent to
Malama Kaua`i
“on behalf of the `Ohana and Friends of All Saints’ Episcopal Church.” Any additional funds received will also be forwarded to Malama Kaua`i.
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ALL SAINTS' THOUGHT BOX
Do you ever have a suggestion, an idea, some feedback, or comment you want to pass along to the Vestry? Now you can share that thought with the Vestry anytime and virtually anywhere. All Saints' Vestry is happy to introduce the
All Saints' Thought Box!
In keeping with their communication goals, the Vestry wanted to create a way that parishioners can freely and anonymously communicate directly with the Vestry. Users can access the Thought Box through the All Saints' Website (look for the light bulb logo) and there will be a link in each issue of the Epistle. Comments are NOT screened and go directly to everyone on the Vestry.
EMERGENCY PASTORAL CARE
Whenever you have a need for support, please call
(650) 691-8104 and leave a voice mail. The system will immediately forward the information to the Pastoral Care Committee who will respond to each request. If you prefer, you may send an electronic pastoral care request via email to
pastoralcare@allsaintskauai.org.
PRAYER CHAIN MINISTRY
Individuals who want to participate in the Prayer Chain Ministry must re-enroll to continue receiving the email communications. To re-enroll, please visit the newly established
Pastoral Care web page or contact the Church Office at
(
808) 822-4267.
SUBMITTING A PRAYER REQUEST
Prayer requests will now be
submitted online or by contacting the Church Office at
(808) 822-4267.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Names can be added to the Prayers of the People petitions by utilizing the
Prayer Chain Request form
or by contacting the Church Office at
(808) 822-4267
. Names will remain in the Prayers of the People for a maximum of four Sundays before a name must be resubmitted.
HOME COMMUNION FOR SICK AND SHUT-INS
All Saints’ Eucharistic Visitors are available each Sunday (pending availability) to bring Communion to those who are sick or shut-in. Requests for a Eucharistic visitation can be made by calling the Church Office at
(808) 822-4267 or emailing
homecommunion@allsaintskauai.org.
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TRANSPORTATION MINISTRY
In the near future, the Pastoral Care Ministries of All Saints’ would like to establish a ministry offering transportation to services and events for our ‘Ohana who cannot drive or cannot drive at night. If you would be interested in volunteering for this future ministry, please email
pastoralcare@allsaintskauai.org or call the Church Office at
(808) 822-4267.
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