January 2019 Volume 13, Issue 1

Dear CCU 'Ohana,

Just a short note from me this month as I'm taking some much needed

R&R vacation from work in this week between Christmas and New

Years. It was a busy and blessed Advent and Christmas and I enjoyed

spending it with you all. I continue to be grateful for all the wonderful gifts

present in our church community and the generosity with which they are

shared: gifts of music and performance, preaching and teaching,

welcoming and supporting.

And now it is a new year! As we begin our fifth year together as pastor

and people, I am thinking about how we might harness those gifts so that

our congregation can shine even more brightly: serving as a vital and

vibrant a place of welcome for progressive Christians searching for

meaning and purpose.

Our new church council, with incoming and continuing officers, will be

gathering in a few weeks to set its priorities for 2019 and to discuss what

ministries and missions to consider building together in the year ahead.

We'll be asking where we see new energy stirring in our church and

community and reflecting on how we might be creative in meeting the

needs of our own congregation and its neighbors.

Perhaps in this season of setting resolutions and intentions, you too

might be in thought and prayer about how you might like to connect and

support our ministry in the year ahead. Do you have an extra hour here or

there you might be willing to contribute to a mission project or

congregational program? Do you have a passion you'd like to express

through a gift to the church? I sense there will be many opportunities to

serve in the months upcoming and I look forward to doing so joyfully and

generously with all of you as we welcome another year.

I wish you blessings for 2019 and for our church community in a new

year.

With aloha,

Pastor Liz

January 2019CCU Event Schedule:

Sundays: 10 am, Worship & Aloha Fellowship

1/2, Wed: Church office closed

1/5, Sat: 8AM CCU's Men's breakfast at Honey's at Ko'olau Golf course

1/6, Sun: 8:30-11:30a Hi5 recycles for IHS. Drop off in Heidel's white truck

1/11, Fri: 7PM Vespers on the Lanai welcomes Hook + Line

1/21, Mon: Martin Luther King holiday, church office closed

1/28, Mon: February newsletter info due

WITH WHOM CAN WE REPLACE PAT

GILBERT IN THE ALOHA HOUR???

Peggy Zeilinger and Marian Heidel think it

will take many hands!

A sign up sheet will be available at

Aloha Hour after Worship for you to

supply goodies to eat some Sunday(s)

Take a turn serving on a Sunday (or a

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month of Sundays); we need at least

two people each Sunday

Take a turn at making coffee (we’ll teach

you!)

Attend a meeting with us, to determine

how best to continue Aloha time, and to

continue the care of the kitchen.

by Marian Heidel

There was plenty of room for

Family Promise houseless

families when CCU opened our

doors Dec. 16-23. We had

three families: a couple with two

children, ages 3 and 1, another

couple with a 3 month old, and

a mother with two very mature

& helpful teenagers. The first

family was in B-2, the room

used on Sundays for Keiki

Church, and B-3 was divided by

curtains (originally obtained

from Castle Hospital) into two

rooms for the other two families.

Setting up the accommodations

and preparing the kitchen to be

a dining room was carried out

fairly quickly (1 1/2 hours) on

Saturday the 15th by Pat

Gilbert, Peggy Zeilinger,

Catherine Sophien, Logan

Schupp, Mary Piette, Dana

Pagalaboyd, George Wyman,

and Marian Heidel,

but this time Marian Heidel &

Dennis Peters) take down all

the curtains, put everything

away, and bag all the linens for

church members to take home

and launder. The kitchen is put

back in order. All this gets

done by 8 a.m., if possible.

In addition, there are often

things to be fixed, like replacing

burned out light bulbs in the

makai walkway lights (John &

Marian Heidel), or helpers

like Melody Heidel, who some

mornings relieved Marian from

checking up that the

rooms were locked. So you can

see it takes a lot of volunteers:

36!! and Beth Davidann, our

co-coordinator, who recruited

the volunteers, made sure that

bedding was sufficient, and set

up room B-2, before she went

to the mainland for Christmas

with her family, made 37. Oh!

And all of you who took 8

bags of laundry home to

wash and return! Many more

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Coordinator.

The guests arrived each

evening at 5 p.m., and dinner

was provided and served by

the following dinner hosts at 6

p.m.: Lisa & Olivia Strong,

Chandra Peters and her

mother Carol Hanlin, Dianne

Brookins, Suzzie Jannuzzi

and her sister Kathy Baton,

Robin Metcalf, Tyffany McCue

and her daughter Fallon, and

Charlene Hosenfeld and Rollo

Scheurenbrand. Cathy and

Clancy Lyman always provide

bread, fruit, cold cereal, and

milk for their breakfasts,

and Pat Gilbert brings eggs,

bagels and cream cheese and

eggs (half of them hardboiled).

Sometimes other church

members provide a dinner dish

or dessert. Besides the

“bedrooms", B-4 is set up as a

lounge with comfortable

furniture, TV & DVD, and toys

and art supplies. It also serves

as a bedroom for the

overnighters, as does the yoga

room (B-1), sometimes.

We always try to have two

hosts stay overnight with the

guests, in case help is needed

or there are emergencies: this

time they were Aisha Allen &

Marian Heidel, Carey Brown &

David Leudtke, Marianne

Whiting & Peter Strong, David

of you have volunteered in the

past, as we host Family

Promise guests four times a

year.

Why am I writing such a long

article about this? Because I

want you to see how we

operate, and how you are

integral to this program to

provide a bed and food, and a

place to keep their few

belongings, while these

hardworking folks look for

housing and jobs. I hope you

will be enticed to join us in this

adventure! Our next date to

host is in March. A BIG thank

you to you faithful, repeating

volunteers, not from just Beth

and me, but from all the

houseless guests you serve.

(85% go on to find housing. So

far, more than 60 families have

done so this year.)

The Family Promise office

and Honolulu Day Center is at

245 N. Kukui St. Ste. 101, in

Honolulu and has two

operations, one with churches

on the Honolulu side, and the

one here on the Windward side.

Ideally, there are at least 13

churches as host churches for

each operation. In addition,

support churches are paired

with the host churches, to help

provide food and volunteers for

their weeks of hosting. Until

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Arai & Dresden Vogt, Paul &

Dottie Brennan, Dana & Ken

Hensarling, and Dennis

Peters . (Quite a few

volunteers are folks from the

community.) They arrive

between 7:30 and 8 p.m. to

relieve the dinner hosts, and in

the morning wake the guests,

put out some breakfast choices,

and see that the guests leave

by 7 a.m. After cleaning up the

kitchen, they go upstairs to

make sure all the fans and

lights are out, the makai

windows shut and the doors

locked. On Sunday morning

(early) the Saturday night hosts

(and usually one is Beth

Davidann,

Sunday, January 6

8:30-11:30 am

recently we also had a Day

Center near St. Christopher's

in Kailua; due to financial

considerations they had to

close the Windward center.

Those families now use the

Honolulu center. There is an

executive director, a

caseworker who vets the

families, a coordinator of

volunteers, a caseworker who

works with families to prevent

them from being houseless, and

also follows up with those who

get housing, to help them be

successful, and social work

students who work with the

families. The Family Promise

Center’s phone number is

548-7478. Visit them

sometime!

Marian Heidel ..................... 4

Rollo Scheurenbrand ........... 4

Jamie Allen .......................... 6

Jason Miles ....................... 11

Bill Muench ........................ 24

Oliver Baird Leavitt ............ 27

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Sunday flower pictures can be found at our

Shurtterfly website:

https://christchurchuniting.shutterfly.com/pictures/264

Bible Study returns Sunday, January 6 with a new book. See you then!

Stay tuned to your bulletin and email for the

new upcoming adult education series.

The CCU Annual meeting is scheduled for

Sunday, February 3 immediately after

worship.

CCU welcomes Hook + Line, on

Friday, January 11th. Opens at

6:30PM with music at 7PM. Bring

your lawn chair, a dessert and a

friend!

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"Give thanks in all circumstances."

1 Thessalonians 5:18

This month, we give a huge:

MAHALO to all those whose service and talents made is such a wonderful Advent

and Christmas season! To our talented musical staff, Louise South and Kalua

Tataipu, and our faithful and gifted choir members, thank you for your music! You

make the season truly special and give much inspiration for our journey.

MAHALO to Trent Lockhart, our seminarian, for his musical contributions and for

his Advent childrens' messages, thank you!

MAHALO for those who served as liturgists, ushers and greeters in this season of

much complexity and many visitors, thank you!

MAHALO to Larry Grimm for his role as lantern bearer during our Advent

services, thank you!

MAHALO to the candle lighters who helped us on our Advent path: Briana

Grenert and Christina, the McDonald family, Robin Van Eps and Leiani, Tyffany

McCue, and the Lockhart Family, thank you!

MAHALO to Paul Belanger and Rollo Scheurenbrand who serve faithfully "behind

the scenes" to makes sure our technology and sound work seamlessly, thank

you!

And, MAHALO to all who came and worshipping in this most holy season and

joined together in song and prayer around the Christmas story: thank you!

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Decorating the sanctuary on Sun, Dec 1st, Advent & Messiah on Dec 2.

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Date Name Duty6-Jan Liz Leavitt Preacher/Worship Lead

Clancy Lyman & Paul Haring Usher / GreeterDianne Brookins LiturgistLisa Strong T Prayer / Serve Comm. / Bldg Lockup

13-Jan Liz Leavitt Preacher/Worship LeadGeorge Wyman & RichardSmith Usher / Greeter

Trent Lockhart LiturgistRon Seiple T Prayer / Serve Comm. / Bldg Lockup

20-Jan Liz Leavitt Preacher/Worship Lead

Keith & Peggy Zeilinger Usher / Greeter

Courtney Nichols Liturgist

Susie Jannuzzi T Prayer / Serve Comm. / Bldg Lockup

27-Jan Liz Leavitt Preacher/Worship Lead

Rollo Scheurenbrand &Charlene Hosenfeld Usher / Greeter

Briana Grenert LiturgistDresden Vogt T Prayer / Serve Comm. / Bldg Lockup

January Tellers: Clancy & George

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