The seedlings planted just a few weeks ago on Martin Luther King Day (right) had flourished, and it was time for them to be “up-potted” so they would continue to grow. Once again, members of the congregation (below) joined Vicar Bree on the lanai to get their hands dirty and move the garden along
At right, Vicar Bree and Peggy Andersaon check out the planting bed ready ro be filled with soil to receive the plants have gotten a bit bigger.
The season of Lent begins with a very special worship on Ash Wednesday. This beautiful evening service begins the Lenten season of reflection, prayer, and preparation as we hear the words from Genesis 3:19, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Physical distancing keeps us from receiving ashes, a sign of mourning and repentance, on our foreheads this year. But we are reminded of our mortality through the cross, a sign of promise, and life, and hope. Ash Wednesday—and the whole season of Lent—calls us to reflect and remember the precious gift of life and love that God has given us in creation and community and to re-center our thoughts and spirit on what truly matters. We recall that our mortality is joined to God’s forever in Christ, and remember that together we share the joy of life with all of God’s world.
While we are not able to gather for our traditional Lenten soup and salad suppers this year, we look forward to a time when we will be able gather in person again.
The Ash Wednesday Liturgy will be livestreamed on our Worship Services page and the LCH Facebook page.
Tomás Ramos (clarinet) and Brian Kavolius-Matherne (horn) combine forces with pianist Maika’i Nash to present an exciting concert of music for winds and piano written by a diverse collection of composers, some well-known and others under-appreciated. The combination of horn and clarinet will showcase their range, timbre, and lyricism in a First Mondays concert you won’t want to miss.
Featured Composers are Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), David Maslanka (1943–2017), Béla Kovács (b. 1937), and Brad Edwards (b. 1963).
The concert will be livestreamed on the our streaming page and the LCH Facebook page February 1 at 7:00 pm and then archived on the LCH Facebook page.
The concert is free; donations to support the concert series are gladly accepted (details below).
Concert Program (PDF in a new window)
Your tax-deductible donations make it possible for us to offer these free concerts to the community. Please consider a donation by sending a check (payable to “Lutheran Church of Honolulu”) to the church at 1730 Punahou Street, Honolulu HI 96822 or using the button to the right to make a secure donation via PayPal. Mahalo for your support.
Seven hearty souls gathered on a windy and rainy Martin Luther King Day to begin work on the LCH Community Garde. The garden, which fits into February’s Stewardship theme, Stewards of Creation, also meshes with the goals of Blue Zones.
Working on the nursery lanai because of the wind and rain, Josie Bidgood and Chuck Pearson, Peggy Anderson, and Phyllis Hörmann and Carol Langner (below) planted a variety of seeds in seeding flats. Once they begin to grow, the seedling will be transplanted for better growth.
Working on the concrete next to the lanai, Vicar Bree and her wife, Jazz, assembled the first of two raised planting beds (right). All the pieces had been precut to facilitate assembly. A second bed will be built at a later date.
In spite of the weather, this initial gathering we quite a success and got the community garden off to an auspicious start. In the weeks to come, the hopes are to periodically gather individually or in small groups to help with seeding, planting, or watering
In anticipation of the Stewardship theme for the month of February—Stewards of Creation—and in tandem with the goals of Blue Zones, Vicar Bree will begin her internship project mid-January. The project is a small community garden at LCH.
Construction will begin this month! Thus far, the plans are for two, 4×10 foot raised garden beds on the site of the playground that fronts Punahou Street. If you have sources for healthy soil, 2x8x10 boards, 4x4x4 posts, or any garden tools like trowels, hoses, gloves, or seeding flats, let the vicar know. Additionally, if you have alternative ideas/suggestions or would like to help with the project, let the vicar know this too! Just email her at vicar.bree@LCHwelcome.org.
We’ll be limited to a small, outdoor group (under five people or a family pod), but we can find ways to work safely at a distance. After construction finishes, the hopes are to periodically gather individually or in small groups to help with seeding, planting, or watering—maybe even filling out our Blue Zones pledges along the way. Let’s grow (maybe something more than kale…)!
We warmly invite all people in all places of faith and life to Compline. Offered on the first and third Sundays of each month, this beautiful candle-lit service is a meditative experience of a cappella singing and chanting to commemorate the day’s end, featuring the LCH Men’s Schola. Musical selections include Gregorian chant, Taizé chant, Renaissance polyphony, and more.
Access on the Worship Services page, or on the LCH Facebook page at facebook.com/LCHwelcome.
The Stark Duo return for Diversely Unified—I, Too, Am America, a concert celebrating uniquely diverse compositions written for voice (Georgine Stark, soprano) and violin (Darel Stark, violin). The evening will include works by Paganini, R. Vaughan Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Alan Hovhaness, and Hans Werner Henze. The duo will also feature the world premiere of a new work for voice and violin by Darel Stark, setting Langston Hughes’ powerful poem: I, Too.
The concert will be livestreamed January 4 at 7:00 pm and then archived on the LCH Facebook page.
Concert Program (PDF in a new window)
Your tax-deductible donations make it possible for us to offer these free concerts to the community. Please consider a donation by sending a check (payable to “Lutheran Church of Honolulu”) to the church at 1730 Punahou Street, Honolulu HI 96822 or using the button to the right to make a secure donation via PayPal. Mahalo for your support.
LCH is taking a break from our traditional German service this year. Instead, join us for a short service of music and prayer in English and Hawaiian to celebrate and welcome the New Year.
The service will feature a selection of Hawaiian mele and traditional chants for the new year, as well as a newly-composed oli written for our service by Joseph Leong. Cellist Aris Doike and pianist Reid Ishikawa are joined by members of the LCH Choir and some special guests from Nā Wai Chamber Choir.
New Year’s Day Vespers will be available on YouTube beginning January 1 at 3:45 pm. Order of Worship (PDF in a new window).
Join the LCH family for an evening devotional of art, music, poems, and prayers, featuring readers from the LCH Women’s Book Club and members of the LCH Choir. The event sums up of the themes of Advent and Christmas. To the traditions of the antiphons and the wreath, we add the richness of poetic voices and music and take a little quiet time to reflect on the meaning of these symbols of our faith.
This Zoom presentation will be given only once. Please email Vicar Bree to request a link to the Zoom meeting. The program for Circling Star Heavens is available as a PDF (new window).
The music feature Andrea Maciel, soprano, Marie Lickwar, alto, Tomás Ramos, tenor, Scott Fikse, bass, and Maika‘i Nash, piano.
5:00 pm • Family Service
featuring the youth virtual Christmas Pageant
7:00 pm • Choral Eucharist
with Messe breve No. 7 aux chapelles by Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
Christmas Day
Friday, December 25
10:00 am • Festival Worship
with music provided by the men of the LCH Choir
10:00 am • Lessons & Carols
featuring members of the LCH Choir
New Year’s Day
Friday, January 1
4:00 pm • New Year’s Day Vespers
featuring Hawaiian mele and traditional music for the new year
All worship service will stream on the LCH Facebook page. They will also stream on our Worship Services page, where
orders of worship are available for download.