April Monthly Service

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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Due to God the Parent and Oyasama's blessing and everyone's support we have been continually blessed with full seating attendance plus with 25 this month! Even more, we were blessed for the first time for a regular monthly service, the full complement of service performers (16) during the second half! First half we had 14 performers! Thank you to you all for your continuous support and offerings!


Testimony by Grace Higa






Not in photo: Setsumi, Sara & Matthew who had to leave early. Grace took the photo.

April Service

Thursday, April 10, 2008

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We are continuing our series on the Eight Mental Dusts and I'm sure you can guess the seventh of the eight mental dusts. Yes, GREED! Well we all have greed to some degree. Some of it might have to do with survival from needy times, but it's when we already have enough and we want and try to obtain more and more like there is no end (that's where fathomless comes from: you can't see the bottom) that we accumulate the dust of greed. But instead of focusing only on the negative, we shall also talk about the opposite of greed. More on this in this month's sermon after the April Monthly Service here at your local (late breaking) Tenrikyo Pearl Church this Sunday 4/13 at 10am.

News photos

Rev. Robert Kokuryo (Granville Church in Vancouver, Canada), Rev. Hiroshi Fukaya (Church HQ Junior Staff) visited Pearl Church after the Successors Seminar along with Bishop Hamada April 30, 2008


Pastor Owen, Lucas, Chance Chong & Robert Miranda pose after the morning service on 4/2/08


Serving the community, Chance Chong and James Katsumoto worked hard to clean the sidewalk across from Palolo Chinese Home on April 2, 2008


The results of their hinokishin… Forgot to take a "before" photo. It was overgrown.


Taeko with Japanese tutor student "Philip," from New York (Vasana's friend).


Chance, Taketo Ikehara (home stay student) & Lucas, cleanup after dinner. Taketo departed on April 4, 2008.


A surprise baby shower was held for Chieko at the Mission HQ on April 4, 2008.

Pastor Owen

PEARL CHURCH NEWS

Sunday, March 30, 2008

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1. Seven kids and seven adults from Pearl Church helped out at the Hawaii BGA Spring Camp and General Meeting last weekend from March 21-23. A total of 50 kids and 20 adult leaders participated.
   
   1Marika Higa, 2Isa Lucky, 3Pippen Muty, 4Bino Komusin, 5Changlai Betiru, 6Sato Betiru, 7Taketo Ikehara (15yo home stay student). 1Pastor Owen, 2Taeko, 3Grace, 4Lucas, 5Chance Chong, 6Robert Miranda, 7Yoshinobu.
   
   
2. Seven participants and two volunteers (Pastor and Taeko) attended the Successors of the Path Seminar held today at Mission HQ of Hawaii: 1Moses, 2Chieko, 3Annabella, 4Vasana Amos, 5Lucas, 6Stacy, 7Chance Chong. A total of 103 people attended the seminar in which 60 people were expected.
   
   
3. Eight of us attended the Jarrett Middle School dinner fundraiser tonight:
   
   
   Pastor Owen, Kachiori Betiru, Sioninta Ichokwan, Taeko
   Chance Chong, Taketo Ikehara, Toshi Milner & Annabella.
   
   Kachiori & Sioninta (husband and wife: spouses do not change their names at marriage in Micronesia) said it was the first time they got to attend such an event. They really seemed to have enjoyed it! They are parents of 4 of the kids who been attending our BGA events from Pearl Church.
   
   Due to everyone's support I was able to give the invocation for the second year in a row.
   
   
   
   
4. Whew! What a week! But wait! We still have Spring Memorial Service tomorrow at 8am!

Pearl Church Helps Family in Need

Saturday, March 15, 2008

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Many thanks to Jean & Bob Bullen (Uncle Carl's wife Karen's sister and brother in law) for their donations of a full size bed, TV, night stand and dresser and to Rachel Haymer and AJ Treigle for their donations of a queen size bed and computer desk. These items were just delivered tonight to a needy family in the Palolo low-income homes who had virtually no furniture in their apartment! I wish you were all there to see their happy faces. They couldn't thank me enough, saying, "Thank you, Pastor Owen!" over and over!

They were procrastinating on submitting their kids' spring camp application for which I was reminding them, but with today's "gifts" they submitted their application right away! Four of them will be attending! Hallelujah!

Also thank you to Chance Chong our live-in who helped me haul it!

Carl, please pass this on to Jean and Bob!

With many thanks and appreciation!

Pastor Owen

March Monthly Service

Sunday, March 9, 2008

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Thank you to everyone for your support and sincere offerings.

Twenty-five persons joined in the service today which was highlighted by Ms. Rachel Haymer’s testimony on her healing by Sazuke.

Sorry forgot to take photos…

Pastor Owen