Thank you to all of you for your support!

Saturday, November 11, 2006

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On October 14th, 2006 Saturday, Pearl Church participated for the second time the 3rd Annual Kaimuki Community Cleanup where three of us picked up tire, car batteries and scrap metal and took them down to Kaimuki High School where volunteers helped to unload them and put them in separate bins.

Next, our live-in Russell Barre and Pastor Owen returned to Jiba October 21-27, for the Autumn Pilgrimage, where Russell made the Besseki Pledge and attended three Besseki Lectures. They also attended the Tengen Autumn Grand Service on October 23, the Church Headquarters Autumn Grand Service on October 26, helped at the Young Men’s Association Convention Eve Food Bazaar, Tacos food booth with YMA members from Hawaii, North America and Brazil and attended the YMA Convention on the following day. He said that he had the best time of his life!

On October 31, we held our annual trick or treat for UNICEF fund drive from Pearl Church with the Dendocho staff and Tad Iwata and family. Our monthly service will be held this Sunday, promptly at 10am.

Come and hear Russell’s impressions of his 1st Jiba Pilgrimage!

Thank you to you all for your support.

Sunday, October 8, 2006

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Our church live-in, Russell Barre will be going for his Besseki and accompany me on this pilgrimage. 10/21 Depart Honolulu JO-77 10/22 Arr Kansai 10/23 Attend Tengen Autumn Grand Service Besseki Pledge for Russell Go with Deguchi to see his friend Yoshifumi Arakawa receive the Truth of Sazuke. 10/24 Russell attend Basic Course (if available in English) Besseki Lecture 10/25 Besseki Lecture Morning & Afternoon 10/26 Autumn Grand Service at Church HQ Tour New South Wing, see exhibit and videos Young Men’s Association Food Bazaar Hawaii YMA man taco booth 10/27 YMA Convention Depart Kansai JO-78 Arrive Honolulu

July Monthly Service

Sunday, July 9, 2006

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A big Mahalo (Thank you) to all of you for your kind support and monetary offerings! This month we had many people return after long absences and also special guest, Ms. Naoko Itoh who is Taeko’s sister visiting from Japan.

Please take the time to read the sermon, for it may be the key to your salvation. It’s about your origins, how you came to be, what you were made for and what you must do.

Pastor Owen

June Monthly Sermon this Sunday

Thursday, June 8, 2006

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Our June Monthly Service will be conducted this coming Sunday, June 11 at 10am without fail. We encourage all of you to attend, if not physically, in spirit by performing the service at your home. God the Parent and Oyasama will accept your sincerity and bless you accordingly.

This month’s sermon will focus on the Truth of Origin and its importance in relation to this quote from the Shinbashira’s Instruction Two:

No matter how advanced our civilization may become, there will always be people suffering from illness or troubled by other things. Their minds will not be saved by the advances of our civilization. That is because they will remain unknowing of the origin and of the ultimate goal of human existence.

Now that I shall work salvation unknown until now,
it is necessary to make the origin known.
Ofudesaki IX: 29

As indicated by this verse, saving people through teaching the origin is the essence of salvation on this path.

By knowing and teaching the origin we will establish the basis for our salvation.

ESSAY CONTEST!
Reminder to those who are intending to submit an entry for the Tenrikyo Essay Contest: The deadline is June 30. Must be postmarked at the latest June 30, 2006.

Mail or deliver entry to:
Essay Contest
Tenrikyo Hawaii Dendocho
2920 Pali Highway
Honolulu, HI 96817


The Official Contest Essay Question


“ Today, when rapid social changes are shaking people’s sense of values and undermining the ties of the heart, it is all the more important for us to emulate the Divine Model of Oyasama without being swept along by the current of the times, so that we may take genuine steps along the path of unchanging sincerity and reflect that sincerity to society at large.”
--Instruction Two


The question:
(1) Discuss your understanding or perception of the above quotation from the Instruction Two.
(2) How do you apply or practice this in your daily life—at school or at work, with your family or friends?

Current Events

Monday, May 29, 2006

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Thank you to all of you for your kind offerings and support. We had a nice gathering of 25 people including the Mitsui family from Dendocho on a beautiful Mother’s Day! I hope all the mothers had a happy Mother’s Day!

Pastor Owen


May Service Naorai


Honokishin Day


Eric & Tina Mitsunaga Family