Rose Mary Thompson, Dorie & Agenhart, Frank Y., Ron M., Wayne, Heather, Erwin, John, Todd, Terry, Elaine, Tom, Sue, Kate, Sandee, Michael T., Cheryl T.K. and Nancy Y.
AND all who struggle with illness and/or hardship.
Please contact the HNC office with any additional prayer requests
An important Message from The Reverend Jennifer Latham
As Christʻs Body here at Holy Nativity Church, we are bound to one another in our common life together. As the COVID infection rates climb here in Hawai`i, we ask that everyone consider masking while in church. While not a requirement, we have had some recent exposures and hope to mitigate future impacts on our most vulnerable (kupuna, immune-compromised, and those who for age or medical reasons can not be vaccinated).
As we go out into the world more, enjoying larger gatherings, we will also encounter more colds and flu infections. If you are feeling under the weather, please consider staying home and joining us in our Zoom room for church on Sunday.
If you are a volunteer, please know that we will miss you and we will welcome you back once you are feeling well again.
Let us continue to keep each other in our prayers as we find our way back out into the world of events and fun, and let us continue to protect one another by masking and staying home when we arenʻt feeling well.
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Aloha! from the Moores
by Ed Moore
“Toto, I’ve got a feeling We’re not in Kansas anymore, ” I opined to Delia as we exited Boston’s Logan airport on March 4 into 38 degrees. No, we certainly were not.
But now, three months later with spring in full bloom, we may not be in Hawaii but rather in a splendid part of the country, Stow, Mass, about an hour west of Boston. Heavily wooded with jillions of farms, walking trails and birds galore, we are very much enjoying this part of our country.
Of course, the main draw is living eight minutes from our younger daughter Lora and her family: hubby Dave, 2 1/2 old Finn and ten week old Graham who, as the Bard put it, “came something saucily to the world before he was sent for.”i.e. two weeks early. Yes “the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men /Gang aft a-glay” (remember, I taught English for 51 years!) But what a joy!
For the first eight weeks Delia lived with them serving as chief cook and bottle washer as well as Finn’s playmate, while I ran errands, attended to the ever growing list of details involved with moving into a new state, and lived a rather Spartan existence readying the condo for the furniture’s arrival some six weeks hence...
Things have settled down a bit, Delia has moved in and between us we have made our new home ours. The people here are very welcoming and have made the transition easy for us. Delia still spends time with Lora’s family helping out and we have Friday night family dinners on their deck overlooking their pool and woods.
As I mentioned above, this area is heavily wooded with ponds and rivers and we have taken advantage of a few of the myriad trails. There is so much else here: farms a plenty, neat cultural and historical sites (Concord especially), and anything we could possible need or want no more than half an hour away.
The discovery that NESN televises every Boston Red Sox game came as a welcome and serendipitous surprise-for me, at least; not so much for Delia!
So while we miss Hawaii and especially the Holy Nativity community (we do see you in church on Sunday) we are home.
Pictured above: Ed and Delia Moore w/ the grandkids!