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Welcome to Christ Memorial Episcopal Church. We are devoted to following the life and teachings of Jesus, the Christ.  

We hope your experience worshiping with us will bless and enrich your life. 

People of all faiths are welcome to worship with us on Sunday.

Foran online service, join us at 9:30 here.

We Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

As constituent members of the Anglican Communion in the United States, we are descendants of and partners with the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church, and are part of the third largest group of Christians in the world.

We believe in following the teachings of Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection saved the world. We have a legacy of inclusion, aspiring to tell and exemplify God’s love for every human being; women and men serve as bishops, priests, and deacons in our church.

Laypeople and clergy cooperate as leaders at all levels of our church. Leadership is a gift from God, and can be expressed by all people in our church, regardless of sexual identity or orientation.

We believe that God loves you – no exceptions.

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First Sunday at Christ Memorial Church will be August 6 

The Feast of the Transfiguration 

The Reverend Scott Lee was ordained in 1992 and retired from full-time parish ministry in Connecticut in 2018. He now lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, the home of the Episcopal Church’s University of the South (Sewanee), where he is a frequent supply priest for The Convent of The Community of St. Mary; for his parish church, The Parish of St. Mark and St. Paul on the Mountain; and for a consortium of rural congregations known as Southeast Tennessee Episcopal Ministries (STEM). 

Before retirement, Fr. Scott served as Curate and Priest-in-Charge of Trinity Church, Clarksville; and as Vicar then Rector of St. Mark’s, Antioch (Nashville), Tennessee. He was Canon for Adult Formation at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, Arkansas, before serving as rector of two Connecticut parishes, Trinity, Wethersfield, and Christ Church, Stratford. He holds a BA in English Literature and an M. Div. degree from Sewanee, and a Master of Arts in Teaching English from Vanderbilt University. He is also a graduate and past mentor of the EFM program. He is an Associate of The Community of St. Mary and a certified teacher of Centering Prayer. He also serves as a spiritual director for Sewanee’s School of Theology. The Rev. Lee describes himself as “a voracious, lifelong learner.” 

Scott first came to Hawaii in 1990 while he was in seminary to serve as a chaplain-intern at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu. During his work and training there, he developed a deep love for the people and cultures of Hawaii and has returned since that time for, he says, “8? 9? 10? visits, I can’t remember how many,” even attending The Merrie Monarch Festival in 2000. Over the years since his first visit, he has preached in various congregations on Oahu and The Big Island and has led a training event for The Diocese of Hawaii. 

A lover of literature, he is passionate about The Divine Comedy, English poetry, and the best of mystery novels – Armand Gamache, Mary Russell and Harry Bosch among his favorite fictional detectives. Scott is an accomplished amateur cook, specializing in Southern and Italian cuisines. He enjoys the study of languages and jokingly says, “I am illiterate in several tongues – Hebrew, 

Greek, Latin, French, Anglo-Saxon and tourist Italian.” He is guardian and protector of a black, domestic, shorthaired cat named “Rubric.” Ask him why that name and why she is called “Ruby.” He will be delighted to tell you. During his time at Christ Memorial Church, he will be visited by at least two mainland friends of whom he says, “I can’t wait to share with them Hawaii I have loved so deeply for so long.”

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TRANSFIGURED: LUKE 9:28-36

By: Leslie Scoopmire

Sometimes, for a suspended moment, 

light can be a physical presence, causing 

eyelids to slam down like window-blinds, the doors 

of the mind to bang shut in shock and wonder, 

hands thrown up, defensively, as the flare 

makes visible the bones in those same hands, hands 

whose strength had been a source of pride but now 

seemed as ephemeral as moth wings against such a light. 

Even with eyes closed, the figures danced 

orange and black upon the green screen of eyelids. 

Light so bright it deafened, 

at first we reeled, contained within the thunderous roar 

of an open furnace door. Lightning forked heavenward 

and split. Jesus stood, and two more– 

on one side the Law in Moses, forming community; on the other 

Elijah’s prophetic imagination: poet and goad. 

In the center the Human One, divine image perfected 

yet also living, enfleshed, as when veiled, among us. 

And then the humming sound of our own heartbeats. 

Now we saw the seams torn asunder, 

Virtues at the center of a humanity, 

enlightenment embodied, laid bare 

and God’s Wisdom in the center, committed, 

to lay himself down for our sake. 

The holy companions murmured together, 

as old friends do, laughing at meeting again, 

the delight in pulling back the curtain 

revealing essential cosmic union. 

Of course we wished to stay forever. 

But the pronouncement to listen shocked us to silence, 

and we staggered like sleepwalkers 

from the cloud-shrouded mountain, 

newly alive, boundaries of earth and sky 

an illusion. Scattered images dancing 

along nerves, transformed from experience to memory,

our footsteps in sync with each pulse 

that beat as one with that sacred heart 

and thrummed from that unpierced wrist 

and beautiful, unmarred brow, 

Earth electric beneath our feet, transfigured.

988 Suicide & Crisis

Lifeline is Here!

Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is now in full effect nationwide. Similar to the 911 emergency phone number, dialing 988 will connect a caller directly to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and to a trained counselor.

Sunday school will be held at 8:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall across from Christ Memorial with beloved teacher Leona.

Aloha ke akua.

Helen Mitsui Shared Blessings Thrift Shop in Kilauea is seeking Volunteers for 2023.

Each volunteer shift is a 2-4 hour commitment for a minimum of one day per week. Experience in Retail, Customer Service, and/or Retail a plus, but not required.

Volunteers are invaluable to serving our community. Our goal is to reuse, repurpose and recycle goods — keeping as much as possible out of landfill — while providing our community with access to reasonably priced, quality merchandise.

Here are ways you can help:

* Greeters welcome shoppers and monitor our COVID guidelines.

* Customer Care helps shoppers to ensure a pleasant shopping experience.

* Merchandisers organize departments, restock the floor and display retail goods.

* Philanthropy distributes merchandise to organizations in need.

* Donation Intakers receive, sort and process donations.

Work-from-Home volunteers help prepare merchandise for sale. We are especially looking for help in these areas:

* Games: checking games to ensure all components are intact

* Stationery: packaging up cards and envelopes

* Holidays: preparing merchandise for Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentines, 4th of July, and more

* School, Office, Art Craft Supplies: organizing and packaging materials for reuse

* Toys: sorting, cleaning, and packaging toys

* Hardware: sorting and packaging tools, materials, electronics and appliances

Requirements?

*Team players with a genuine interest in serving the community and contributing to the reuse movement.

* Willingness to support COVID-19 safety measures set by Shared Blessings

* Physically able to lift 50 pounds (Merchandisers and Donation Intakers only)

Benefits?

Serving the community and our environment is rewarding work. We have a lot of fun! New merchandise is donated daily, so the element of surprise and wonder is constant. Get a first peek and more!

Interested?

Click on the reply button here! Let us know 1) your interests, 2) your availability to volunteer and 3) your contact information. Mahalo!

Let us pray for our own needs and those of others. We remember especially those on our prayer list. Healing of body, mind and spirit for: Rick, Marcie, Dan, Niles, Robbie, Elise, Jane, Amelia, Margaret, Gordon, Dale, Webb, David, Linda, David, Helen, Tony, Anthony, Penny, Dwight, Tommy, Jennifer, Matthew, Katie and the leadership and people of Ukraine. We also pray for those who have died, especially Lena. We pray also for the people of Russia who wish for peace and an end to the war.

We pray that you will bring people together in worship. Enliven your church and bless our musician, our clergy and lay leadership. We pray for our sibling Episcopal congregations on Kauai: St John and St Pauls, St Michael & All Angels, and All Saints, and for all churches on the North Shore. We pray for our own congregation of Christ Memorial, Kilauea for those present, online and absent - that all of us together may be united in your ministry. 

Are there others? Send a prayer list request to christmemorialkilauea@gmail.com

THRIFT SHOP MISSION STATEMENT:

Our goal is to provide our community with reasonably priced, quality merchandise. We will reuse, repurpose and recycle goods and keep as much as possible out of the landfill in an effort to help Kauai and our planet toward Zero Waste. Above all we will show compassion, kindness and tolerance to each other and our community.