Pearl Church Roof Re-coating Completed!
I would like to thank James Katsumoto and Morris Nakao for their hinokishin on re-coating Pearl Church roof on January 15-17, in preparation for the installation of the solar panels!
Mahalo and aloha!
Rev. Owen Nakao
Roof recoating Hinokishin Volunteers: James Katsumoto and Morris Nakao
January Grand Service １月大祭
Happy New Year Everyone!
Taeko and I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for your dedicated hinokishin efforts and sincere offerings in support of Pearl Church during this past year. Mahalo nui loa!
We will be conducting the January Grand Service this Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 10am. The January Grand Service is to commemorate Oyasama's withdrawal from physical life on January 26, 1887, when she "stepped out" (of her body) to "level the ground (for world salvation)."
2011 Report
- Our monthly service attendance average was 20.8 in 2011, down from 24.5 in 2010.
- The sazuke was administered 435 times. Up 7 times from 418 times in 2010.
- The highlights of 2011 were: Boy's & Girl's Association Spring Camp in March (4 adult volunteers, no children attendees), the Hawaii Convention (11 attendees), the Children's Pilgrimage to Jiba (6 attendees); the annual Tenrikyo Bazaar (16 volunteers) and the completion of a rain barrel system utilizing rain water for plants and car washing. Numbers are based on attendees from Pearl Church only.The Hawaii Convention held on May 28-30 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village provided opportunities for members to share their faith with followers from around the world and learn different aspects of the teachings. Members from Pearl Church held key positions in conducting and contributing to the success of the Convention.
- We are now in the second year of the three-year, one thousand days before the mission headquarters 60th Anniversary on May 17, 2014 and the Pearl Church 80th Anniversay in the same year (date to be set). We would like to set goals for spiritual growth in order that we may commemorate the anniversary in a manner befitting our maturity and the number of years since establishment.
- In looking forward to 2012 we would like to again resolve to administer the sazuke this year is at least 500 times to remain focused on our mission as yoboku (useful timber: those who are using the sazuke) in buidling the joyous life world. Please send me an email everytime you administer the sazuke so that we may record the event.
- Also, in addition we would like to schedule service (hand dance & narimono) practices every 4th Sunday at 10am. Please make every effort to attend as we work toward our 80th Anniversary in 2014.
Sincerely,
Rev. Owen Nakao
あけましておめでとうございます。 ことしもどうぞうよろしくおねがいいたします！
パール教会１月大祭
１月８日
午前１０時から午後１時まで
住所：1634 10th Avenue
Tel: 734-1449
パール会長より
Mochi pounding tomorrow, 明日もちつき
For those available and willing, please come out and help with the mochi pounding tomorrow (12/30), 9am at Tenrikyo Mission Headquarters of Hawaii. Join in this amazing cultural activity, fun for the whole family! Help with pounding, kneading and forming!
明日はもちつきです！
１２月３０日午前９から
天理教ハワイ伝道庁
２９２０ Pali Highway
持ちつき、丸めるのてつだいお願いいたします。
Rev. Owen Nakao
パール会長
中尾オウエン
New Home Stay Student and Year end – New Year Schedule
Hi, ya all!
We're hoping everyone is enjoying this happy holiday season in the sharing of joy and good will. Please do so with health and safety.
Everyone, please welcome Shoko Kazaoka from Osaka (originally from Hyogo Prefecture) who will be studying English in Hawaii for 6 months. A non-Tenrikyo follower, she will be attending the Institute of Intensive English. Please introduce yourself when you have the chance. English only please to enhance her educational experience.
12/26 9am Yohaishiki at Mission HQ and MHQ general cleaning
12/30 7am Mochi pounding at MHQ
12/31 9am Pearl Church general cleaning
1/1 7am Pearl Church New Year Service
10am MHQ New Year Service
1/14 9am MHQ Adopt a Highway cleaning Hinokishin. No children under 12.
Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and joyous new year!
Rev. Owen & Taeko Nakao
今年も年末の楽しい季節がやって来ました。 皆さまいかがお過ごしでしょうか。 どうぞ元気で新しい年をお迎えください。
さて、
パール教会では英語学校のホームステイの学生さんをお預かりしています。
笠岡しょう子さんです。神戸市出身で６カ月間英語の勉強に来ています。天理教の方ではありません。どうぞ英語で話しかけてあげてください。
年末年始のスケジュール
１２/２６日 ９時より 天理教ハワイ伝道庁 遥拝式、 年末大掃除
１２/３０日 ７時より 伝道庁にて、餅つき
１２/３１日 ９時より パール教会 大掃除
１月 １日 ７時より パール教会 元旦祭
１０時 伝道庁 元旦祭
１月１４日 ９時 伝道庁よりＰａｌi High way 清掃ひのきしん （１２歳以上から 大人対象）
パール会長
中尾オウエン
December 2011 Prayer & Sermon
Thank you everyone for your support during the past year! We are thankful for the many blessings shown by God the Parent and by the congregation!
For many who attended the service it was a time to experience the joy of communion with God and share in the experiences of people who went through and survived very difficult times. Thank you to the speakers Carl Nakao and Yasue Uegawachi and all who contributed to making the service possible. Mahalo!
Wishing you all a happy holiday season!
Rev. Owen and Taeko Nakao
Please read "Saved from Cancer" by Carl Nakao and "Surviving the Atomic Blast in Hiroshima" by Yasue Uegawachi. And this month's prayer.
Guest Speakers: “Saved from Cancer” and “Surviving the Atomic Blast in Hiroshima”
Two guest speakers have spoke for this month's sermon:
- "Saved from Cancer" by Carl Nakao
- "Surviving the Atomic Blast in Hiroshima" by Yasue Uegawachi
Monthly Service Prayer December 2011
Before God the Parent, Tenri-O-no-Mikoto, I, Owen Osamu Nakao, Pastor of Tenrikyo Pearl Church, pray with reverence:
God the Parent, we are grateful for Your constant protection and gradual instruction that guides us on the path to spiritual growth. In this last month of this 174th year of Tenrikyo we are all striving for the sake of single-hearted salvation while leaning on the ever-living Oyasama and we give thanks for the many and continuous blessings we have received throughout the year.
Today, for this December monthly service at Pearl Church, the service performers will now unite their hearts to perform the seated service and Teodori joyfully and in high spirits. Please accept our prayers as we brothers and sisters of this Path have looked forward to this day and have gathered before You to sing the Mikagura-uta.
Through your blessing the rain barrel project was completed in November thereby reducing the need for pure water from the city’s water supply. Twelve persons attended the thanksgiving dinner held on November 24 and also, two junior leaders and two adult leaders from Pearl Church participated in the Boy’s and Girl’s Association Leaders Fun camp held at the mission HQ on November 25 through 26. In addition, an average of two persons helped with the weekly yard work on neglected sidewalks and various private yards as well as the Tenri Cultural Center throughout the year. The Sazuke was administered a total of 31 times for the month of November and a blessing service was conducted for a place of business on October 8th. We thank you deeply for these blessings.
In the remaining days of this year we vow to work together engaging in hinokishin and salvation work with a unity of mind and continue to encourage as many people as possible to return to Jiba.
We pray that Your guidance will strengthen us into worthy Yoboku, striving with a single heart for the salvation of others. We hope that our efforts will bring joy to You and peace in this world where all people help one another as brothers and sisters. With our minds in unity toward the Truth of the Jiba, we would like to spiritedly perform the last monthly service of the 174th Year of Tenrikyo.
In union with the congregation, I pray for these blessings.
December Monthly Service 2011
As we approach the end of 2012 I have been pondering our accomplishments for the year... Have we all accomplished our goals and resolutions for the year?
Also, this past December 7th we commemorated the 70th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack which ignited the war with Japan and ended with atomic bombs dropping on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Some of you may not know that Mrs. Yasue Uegawachi our regular monthly service attendee is a atomic bomb survivor. She will share with us some of her experiences on that fateful day in this month's sermon. And also a few words of gratitude from Mr. Carl Nakao.
Monthly Service
December 11, 2011
Sunday, 10am
Tenrikyo Pearl Church
1634 10th Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
Phone: 808-734-1449
パール教会月次祭
１２月１１日
午前１０時から午後１時まで
住所：1634 10th Avenue
Tel: 734-1449
パール会長より
November Monthly Service Reminder パール教会月次祭お知らせ
Some of you may know that the suicide rate in Japan is one of the highest in the world and in the U.S., although not as high as Japan, suicides are increasing. What drives people to take their lives? We would like to explore the possible causes and what we can do to prevent suicides in our sermon at this month's Pearl Church monthly service.
Sunday, November 13, 2011, 10am
1634 10th Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii
Ph: 734-1449
Sincerely,
Rev. Owen
日本では近年自殺がとても多いです。アメリカではそんなに多くないですが、増えています。なぜ自分の人生を止めたい気持ちになるのでしょうか？
今月のお話はこのことについてお互いに考えさせて頂きたく思います。
パール教会月次祭
１１月１３日
午前１０時から午後１時まで
重症1634 10th Avenue
Tel: 734-1449
パール会長より
October Grand Service at Pearl Church
We'll be commemorating the beginning of Tenrikyo by conducting the October Grand Service at Pearl Church.
When we sing the first verse of the daily seated service, what are we saying? "All ills sweep away and save us, please, Tenri O no Mikoto."
We make a sweep away motion with our hands in the area of our heart. Which implies cleaning our heart. "Purify the mind" is the title of our sermon which covers the essence of the Tenrikyo teaching which
prepares our mind to receive the Truth.
In the Ofudesaki we read,
"There is nothing I cannot teach. But there is no one who listens with a purified mind."
Sunday, October 9, 2011, 10am
Sincerely,
Rev. Owen Nakao
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1634 10th Ave.
Honolulu, HI 96816 (map)
(808)734-1449
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