Octogenarian Celebration!

On Sunday Dec. 31/ New Year's Eve, we celebrated all our congregants who turned 80 in 2023!

Pictured above enjoying cake and the festivities are Carol (L) and Kathy (R) Otani

One of our 80 year olds, Carol Ching is joined by her family (below). Others in the 80's gang include, Jan Jones, James Richmond, Bill Seeley, and Rev. Bob Steele!

Click on poster to enlarge image

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Bishop Bob (and Bea) Fitzpatrick to join us for our formal 75th Anniversary Celebration

The Right Reverend Robert L. Fitzpatrick and his wife, Bea, will visit Holy Nativity on Sunday January 28th. Our service time on that day will be at 10am.

The bishop will confirm several young people and formally receive two adults into the Episcopal Church and join us in celebrating the actual date of our founding. The morning will conclude with a festive luncheon after the service.

Please join us!

Save the Date

The Annual Parish Meeting will be on Sunday February 4th, after service.

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REMINDERS

Forward Together: African American Prints from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection

JAN 18, 2024 – SEPT 14, 2024 • GALLERY 26

This exhibition celebrates the museum’s important acquisition of prints from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection, which vastly increases HoMA’s representation of art by women and artists of color.

https://honolulumuseum.org/exhibitions/forward-together/

Tentative date on which our Holy Nativity community is invited to go together to see the exhibition: Sunday, Feb 18, 2024. Stay tuned to this space for more details.

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Adult Ed Series

Join us in January and February, 2024 for the reading and discussion of

The Lemon Tree

by Sandy Tolan.

This timely and poignant story set in 1967 Israel/Palestine will give us much to consider.

Books are available in the office for a cost of $10

(or whatever you are able to pay).

Date and time to be announced.

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Our Stewardship Project this year is to help our Sunday School children fill backpacks for those being released from Halawa Correctional Facility.

The items to purchase are listed in the online signup at

(https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48A4A922A0F8C25-46236074-backpack)

or you may sign up in person on Sunday after church with Chandi, or in the office M-Th 9a-12p.

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Rev. Libby is off-island Jan 3-10, visiting her dad and spending two days on retreat. She will be back in the office on Thurs, Jan 11th.

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Russian Christmas this Sunday 1/7/24

This Sunday Olga Miller will be bringing us treats to celebrate Russian Christmas.

Счастливого Рождества!