Up Coming Events
March Virtual Talk Story
Our next virtual fellowship gathering will be on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025, on Zoom at 2pm HST (4pm West Coast and 7pm East Coast) for about one hour to socialize and celebrate the start of our fourth year of Virtual Picnics. If you haven’t attended our virtual picnics in the past, please join us for the start of our fourth year of fun and fellowship.
Christie and John will be our MCs with a theme of Big Island Favorites: places to visit, food, restaurants, and books.
Faithful stewardship involves giving of our time, talents, and treasure to support Hokuloa Church. Current volunteer opportunities at Hokuloa include:
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Promote the Church to surrounding Communities (Outreach)
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Staff our Booth at First Saturday Waikoloa Market (Outreach)
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Assimilate New Attendees into the life of the Church (Congregational Care)
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Donor Appreciation (Stewardship)
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Advance the Peace Park Concept (Join the Peace Park Committee)
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Cleaning: Select a specific area for periodic cleaning
What gifts or interests do you wish to share with Hokuloa? Please contact Yvonne Leiser or Melissa Thompson, Co-Moderators for further information.
Hokuloa strives To Be Like Jesus on the Big Island. Your faithful stewardship helps Hokuloa carry out its mission and meet financial obligations. Your time, talents, and treasure allow us to Be the Church.
Servant Leadership
In 2024, the Church Council and Kahu Nani led a congregational exercise to identify important ministry tasks at Hokuloa UCC. The tasks were then grouped with the idea of creating a church organizational structure where each committee is responsible for reasonable number of related tasks.
The Council is now creating some new committees based on that exercise. Wider involvement of lay leaders is needed to sustain Hokuloa's ministries as we prepare to welcome a new pastor. Are you seeking a way to share your talents and to give back to Hokuloa? The church is seeking people interested in serving on the following new committees:
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Outreach/Marketing/Advertising - with a need to update the church brochure/rack card and to consider a letter to Puako Homeowners
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Congregational Care/Faith Formation - with a need to begin an Adult Study/Bible Study
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Stewardship - with a need to write Thank You notes (4 or 5 per month) and prepare for the Fall Pledge Drive
For more information, please talk to Yvonne Leiser, Moderator or send an email to the church.
EXPLORE HOKOLUA UCC CHURCH!
OPEN Thursdays from 10am to 2pm. Drop by this historic Hawaiian church, enjoy the view, talk story with the volunteers, offer silent prayers. Bring your picnic lunch and enjoy the lawn and the view.
Show Us Your Smiling Face
As Hokuloa Church prepares to welcome a Rev. Page, there will be the inevitable round of introductions between pastor and parishioners. The process of matching names to faces will be much easier for the new pastor if our directory (AKA our Breeze Church Management Software) contains recent photos of the members of the Hokuloa ʻohana. Unfortunately, the great majority of the people in our directory look like the person in the middle photo below.
If you are a Breeze user, you can add or update your own photo. If you want to learn how to do it yourself, join the Breeze training mentioned in the ʻHappeningsʻ section above. Even easier, just snap a selfie with your phone, tablet, or computer camera and email it the the church office and we will add it to the directory. Landscape pictures (wider than tall) work best, but we will use whatever you send.
NEW SIGNS
Replacing the old, deteriorating sign in front of the church was identified as a priority project at council and congregational meetings in early 2023. The feeling was that a new sign was needed to show that Hokuloa Church was an active congregation in the post-pandemic period. By summer 2023, a proposal to install two signs was approved. A lava rock wall with the church name and date of establishment would emphasize the historic nature of the church. Another informational sign would highlight worship time and special events at the church.
Both signs have now been installed. A celebration and dedication event was held immediately following worship on Sunday, June 30th. The blessing ceremony will recognize those who have contributed to the project. The new informational sign and two new portable sandwich signs provide a convenient and low-cost way to promote events such as community concerts and historical talk story programs at Hokuloa Church.
Do you enjoy flowers? Consider signing up to bring flowers on your selected Sunday.
Do you enjoy chatting? Then consider being the Sunday Zoom Host - greet those who worship via Zoom and facilitate the post-worship talk story session among Zoom participants.
Do you enjoy hosting? Consider signing up to provide treats following the worship service.
Do you enjoy meeting visitors? Consider being a Thursday docent and talk about the church, its history and its current activities with drop in visitors.
Contact us to express your interest in volunteering.