YMA/YWC/Aloha Band joint car wash & garage sale

Just a friendly reminder that the Young Men's Association, Young Women's Club and Aloha Band is having a joint car wash and garage sale tomorrow 3/29 at the Mission HQ of Hawaii, 2920 Pali Highway (across from Queen Emma Summer Palace) from 9am to 2pm.

Also on sale: spam musubi, yaki soba (fried noodles) and shave ice!
Car Wash is on a donation basis.

Pastor Owen

Spring Memorial Service!

Aloha everyone!

I would like to thank all who helped out at the recent BGA Spring Camp held this past weekend with 8 kids and 4 adults from Pearl Church and total 60 kids and 8 counselors and 20 adults as a whole.

I forgot to mention it during our last monthly service, but our spring memorial service will be held this Saturday at 8am.  Please take the time to remember and pay respects to our ancestors, our late first head minister Rev. Tsugi Nagayama and late members of Pearl Church.

Normally held on the 4th Sunday (March and September), but unable due to the camp.

Also the YMA, YWC and Aloha Band will be conducting a joint, Rummage Sale & Car Wash this coming Sunday, March 29, 2009 at Mission HQ from 9am-3pm.  Please support their fundraiser by telling friends and family about it and donating unwanted items.  Thank you very much!

Pastor Owen

February Monthly Service

Thank you to everyone for your support and sincere offerings. We continue to be blessed with full seating to the monthly service. 26 last month and 27 this month. 3 are not in the photo.

Please be sure to read the sermon as it could be the key to your salvation!

We bid farewell to Miyuki and Asuka who home stayed at Pearl Church from Feb 4-10.

Please help at the annual TCC Hinokishin on President's Day, Monday, February 16 at the Tenri Cultural Center at 2236 Nuuanu Ave. See attached flyer.

Also for BGA (Boys & Girls Association) our next service practice is this Sunday night, 2/15, 7pm at Honolulu Church at 1902 South King St.

Rev. Owen Nakao


February 2009 Monthly Service at Pearl Church


Miyuki, Taeko, and Asuka

Monthly Service this Sunday!

We are disappointed that Mrs. Misue Nakao (Tengen Head Minister's wife) couldn't make the trip here due to a sprained ankle.  She was scheduled to arrive on Feb 5 to attend our monthly service this month, meet our congregation and deliver her message for the Women's Association.

While she has said that she needs to reflect on her situation and spiritual growth, I believe that we, the Pearl Church congregation, should also do some soul searching, that is to reflect on our respective situations and see how we can advance on the path to spiritual maturity that will be deserving of a visit by Mrs. Misue and receive the Truth of Jiba.

Recently we read about a church that is very active and have resolved to administer the sazuke 1,000 times every month.  In order that we may receive the Truth of Jiba, thereby advance of the path to spiritual maturity and realize the Joyous Life world as intended by God the Parent we have set a similar goal on a smaller scale.  Our goal is to administer the sazuke at least 100 times every month.  Last month between Taeko and myself we administered the sazuke 37 times.  We plan to increase that, but we would need help to attain 100.  If you have adminsitered the sazuke whether it was on your child or other person or however many times to the same person on the same day (maximum is 6 on same person in a 24 hours), please send me an email as to the name, date and number of times so that we may record and keep track of number of sazuke.  Please help us attain this goal!  It is the goal to the Joyous Life!

Pastor Owen

Enjoy the photos!

On January 31, we had a Boy's & Girl's Association service practice at Pearl Church! Clockwise from Pastor Owen is: Ferky, Katerine, Chisato, Yuki Yamazaki, Ski and Chang.


Taeko, Katherine, Ferky, Chisato.


Ferky and Katherine.


Please welcome home stay students: Miyuki Fukaya and Asuka Hori! They are stay at Pearl Church from Feb 4 - 11.

Goals for this Year!

This past two years have been very rewarding for us at Pearl Church and we hope it's been the same for you.

     In 2007, two people have attended the 3-month Spiritual Development Course and attained the 15th and 16th yoboku of our establishment (which is the required number to establish a church nowadays), repaired the church roof, tent fumigation, and two of our children got married.

     In 2008, four persons took the Besseki pledge, 9 persons attended the Basic Course in Jiba and we averaged 25 persons attending our monthly service which is six more that last year.

     For 2009, we want to continue to bring people to Jiba to attend the Besseki Lectures, 3-month Spiritual Development Course, the basic course and for Pearl Church we want to complete the Service having full number of service performers.  This past grand service we were missing one person for the seated service, but for the first time, we had full number of performers for the first and second half hand dance!

     The Service of course is central to our faith: in gratitude for our blessing we perform the service and thereby receive blessings from God the Parent.  The world is plagued with war and conflict and our community has crime and violence. What can we do to bring peace and brotherhood among human beings?  It is through the Service for Universal Salvation.  It's difficult to do door to door nioigake, but we can bring people to the activities, bring friends and relatives to church services and we can perform in the service.  Through the service we will be saved!

     Through involvement in church activities, performing the service and returning to Jiba, we are bringing peace and brotherhood to this world and blessings tor our families!  In this new year, the 172nd Year of Tenrikyo, please take the step to become even more active in church!

Please see the January Grand Service Prayer and Sermon!

Rev. Owen Nakao