An online publication of the

Church of the Holy Nativity, Āina Haina,

June 12, 2025

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Service Participants:


Click HERE to view the names and assignments for this Sunday and all the other Sundays of this month.


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Clergy:

Rector:

The Rev. Libby Berman

hncrector@gmail.com

The Rev. Jennifer Latham

The Rev. Robert Steele

The Rev. Bill Heran


The Vestry

Sr. Warden: Tusi Mayer

Jr. Warden: Austin Nakoa

Treasurer: Stephanie Ching

Clerk: Dan Muenzer


Members at Large:

Kim Garner, Ginnie Long, Catherine Nurmi, Justin Donahue, Jennifer Stikeleather, Adrienne Fung


Office Hours: M-Th 9-12

(808) 373-2131

In our parish, we pray for:

Lisa M, Barbara A,

David M, Luci , Sheri G, Brian S, Heather, Wayne, Todd, Tom, Ann, Sandee, Doris, Linda, Esther, Antone, Betty, Bobby, Gregg, David K, Eliane, Lorraine M, Margot, Bill, Madeleine Kristi T, Steven S,

Katherine N, Adele T, Kim G, and Gerry.


AND all who struggle with illness and/or hardship.


NEW Prayer List starts Sunday

June 15th!


Please contact the HNC office with any prayer requests

hncparish@gmail.com or call (808) 373-2131 

We are posting a brief day by day meditation from Forward Movement. It's a great way to start your morning! Just click on the website icon above.

Holy Nativity Thrift Shop

(808) 373-3744


June BLUE tags are 50% off


Wednesdays:

9a-1p


Closed Fridays



Saturdays:

9a-1p


Click here to visit the Thrift Shop webpage


For donations, please donate during store hours, and please do not leave items outside the gate after hours. Mahalo!

The 1st Sunday after Pentecost



Trinity Sunday / Father's Day


Holy Eucharist

June 15, 2025 at 9:00am


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To join our Zoom service(s) online, Click HERE

Or Dial-in by phone at one of these numbers:

       +1 253 215 8782 

Meeting ID: 537 938 292 (No Password)


Click HERE for this Sunday's Bulletin

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Come, Holy Spirit!

Pentecost Celebration at Holy Nativity

on Sunday, June 8


The nave was full of joyful and diverse voices as we celebrated the day on which the "divided tongues, as of fire, descended upon the disciples...and all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit."


Members of our own congregation, pictured above, demonstrated the variety of people and nations to which the Holy Spirit ministers. They shared the story of Pentecost in eight world languages: Cantonese, Hawaiian, German, Korean, Russian, Samoan, Japanese and Hindi.


A further joy of the day was our opportunity to commission the Summer Staff of Camp Mokule'ia, pictured below. We offered prayers of blessing and strength to the thirty staff members, who come from Hawai'i, many other states, and Mexico. They will facilitate all camps for keiki and youth during June and July.

We send them off with our aloha!


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Trinity Sunday Special Offering

A message from Bishop Bob


Beginning in 2015, the Diocese of Hawaiʻi began setting aside Trinity Sunday of every year as a time to collect a special offering to support Camp Mokulē'ia. This year, Trinity Sunday is on June 15, and I write to encourage you to use this opportunity to support this valuable ministry of the Diocese (...).


Your financial support at this time would be a particular blessing to our Camp and will go towards supporting summer camp for many young people in 2025.


I hope every congregation will dedicate the loose plate offering to, and welcome a special collection for the Camp on Trinity Sunday,

June 15, 2025.


If you’re at worship, please make checks payable to “Camp Mokulē'ia” with a memo of “Trinity Sunday offering” and put the check in the collection (your church will mail the checks to the Camp). If you want to mail your check today, send your check directly to the Camp at:


Camp Mokulē'ia

68-729 Farrington Hwy.

Waialua, HI 96791

You can also donate online at https://www.campmokuleia.org/support.


Thank you for being generous in support of our Camp and the children.


Yours faithfully,

+Bob

Robert L. Fitzpatrick, Bishop

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A Message from the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem



All congregations in the Diocese are urged to share the statement from the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem Condemning the attack on Ahli Hospital, Gaza City.
For more on this message and other communications concerning Gaza.
click HERE
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For our Sweet Dads...




We are asking that all our bakers and sweet makers rally to bring dessert to our Father's Day brunch, this Sunday 6/15, after service.


Mahalo!

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As we all know, the federal government is cutting back drastically on Food assistance. That in turn is impacting the Hawaii Foodbank and the various nonprofits that the Foodbank supports who distribute food to those who are hungry in

our community.


On June 26, 2025, the Executive Director of Appleseed will speak about legislative efforts to address this, the director of the Hawaii Foodbank will be on hand to speak about the impact they are feeling, a representative of FACE will speak about what is currently happening in our various churches, and Rev David J Gierlach will speak about the moral response that churches ought to have in the face of these difficult times.


Please click on the flyer above to enlarge

ALL are welcome!

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REMINDERS


New Prayer List Starts THIS Sunday,

Trinity Sunday June 15th.

Please contact the office with names.

(808) 373-2131 or hncparish@gmail.com


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Summer Speaker Series

sponsored by the Huli ka lima i lalo project. 


July 28, 9am - 11am. - The Rev. Rachel Taber Hamilton

August 2, 9am -11am. - Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of Braiding SweetgrassGathering Moss, and The Serviceberry)


To sign up to hear one, two or both of the speakers click HERE

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O Time



Ordinary Time

Focus shifts from Holidays

Can you feel the green?

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To All Our Dads!