I would like to thank everyone for your support, donations and coming out to help at the Pearl Church Mini bazaar & Rummage Sale held today. Proceeds will help the financially challenged with the Jiba Pilgrimage this year and next year.
Mahalo!
Rev. Owen Nakao
Mini Bazaar & Rummage Sale on Sunday March 1, 2015 from 8am-12noon! Used clothes, quality furniture, and tons of STUFF! Musubi, cone sushi, baked goods, and home-baked bread too! Preview photos to come!
Please bring your donation items by Friday, Feb 27 and help with the setup and pricing on Saturday, Feb. 28 from 9am to 4pm. Come when you can.
Just one year left before Oyasama’s 130th Anniversary. Let’s start this new year by making/keeping resolutions that will spur on our spiritual growth and bring joy to the ever-living Oyasama. This is the seasonal time for planting seeds of sincerity. If we miss the seasonal time, we will have missed “opportunity” to reap bountiful blessings.
Please join us in joy and gratitude…
January Grand Service
Sunday, January 11, 2015
10am
We will see you! Aloha!
Rev. Owen and Taeko Nakao
Dear Members and friends,
As 2014 draws to a close, I reflect on the past years events and accomplishments and give thanks. The Mission HQ activities, including MHQ 60th Anniversary, BGA camp and General Meeting, Children’s Pilgrimage, Annual Tenrikyo Bazaar, Pearl Church 80th Anniversary, etc. I would like to thank all of you for your support, big or small, that helped make this possible.
Mahalo for your support and Happy New Year!
Rev. Owen and Taeko Nakao
Happy two days before our monthly service!
Thank you to you all for your support and prayers! This Sunday is our monthly service day. As most of you know, the day before (tomorrow) is the monthly service preparation hinokishin and I’d like to call on everyone able to lend a hand. Tomorrow we will be disposing the old carpet in the activity room, vacuuming the sanctuary and activity room; taking out the altar tables, instruments, preparing the lunch for Sunday, etc.
And, of course, attend the monthly on Sunday at 10am.
Rev. Owen & Taeko Nakao
Dear Members and Friends,
As part of our work in the Palolo Valley community, I serve on the Jarrett Middle School Foundation which raises awareness and funds to help the students (which are mostly from the Palolo Low Income apartments) of Jarrett attend school activities such as school excursions, 6th grade camp, purchase band instruments, uniforms for the cross country team, etc. Many teachers spend their own money to help the needy students, but they need to know that the community is behind them. It is absolutely vital that we support the teachers that are mentoring the young people in our valley. They serve as role models that help to reduce delinquency. If the community and teachers don’t care, the children become problems in our community later.
Just last week five teenage boys robbed the store next door (Number One Store) with two cases of beer. I felt helpless as I saw the store owner struggle with the boys and called the police. I yelled at the store owner to just let them go, which he did eventually. Getting hurt over two cases of beer was not worth it.
This incident reminds me that there is delinquency in the valley and that we need to work together to bring up the children in right way. They say “It takes a village to raise a child.”
This year we will be celebrating our 20th year and I’d like to call on our members and friends to support our cause by joining in the annual dinner fundraiser on Saturday, November 15. See attached. If you want to join our table, no need to submit the form, just let me know and make your check payable to Tenrikyo Pearl Church. We will reserve your seat and make the payment together with everyone for our table.
Mahalo,
Owen Nakao
Jarrett Foundation Dinner 2014 Flier (pdf)
Continue reading Jarrett Middle School Foundation Annual Dinner Foundation 2014
In this year of the Mission Headquarters of Hawaii 60th Anniversary, a free commemorative symposium will be held on
Saturday, November 22, 2016
9:00am to 11:30am
Ala Moana Hotel [Garden Lanai Meeting Room]
The symposium consists of a video movie titled “Inori: Prayer – Conversation with Something Great” and a motivational address by internationally renown scientist Dr. Kazuo Murakami.
Download Flier: Symposium_Murakami [PDF] (different from image)
Thank you all again for your hinokishin, offerings and spiritual support in commemoration of Pearl Church’s 80th Anniversary held on September 14, last month. Mahalo!
As a Shuyoka (Three-month Spiritual Development Course in Jiba) instructor in Jiba in 2004, one the students asked, “How can you even begin to understand God?! God is infinite! This universe is so vast! The earth turns on its axis every 24 hrs at a speed of x thousands of miles an hour, without making a SOUND! After the emphasis on the word, “sound,” there was total silence for a few seconds, as if it to make sure the earth wasn’t making any sound.
I replied, “Exactly!” But we can get somewhat close to God’s intent and God’s heart. Let’s look at the scripture and read:
To God, who began this world,
all of you in the world are equally My beloved children. IV: 62
Because of My love for all My children,
I exhaust My mind in every kind of way. IV: 63
I desire to teach everything to you children quickly.
Take notice of this hastening in the mind of God! IV: 64
I wait impatiently for My children to awaken to the truth.
There is nothing else in the thoughts of God. IV: 65
You human beings must all love your children.
From this, please think of the regret of God. XIII: 27
From these verses the student was able to calm down and move on with the class.
Further in Instruction Three we read:
Concerned about our future, God the Parent urges us through various knots, or challenging situations, to replace the mind.
Whatever I do, it is solely from Tsukihi’s (God’s) single desire to save you.
Ofudesaki XII: 78
This verse teaches us that everything God does is motivated solely by the parental love that desires to save all human beings.
All misfortunes and difficulties are expressions of the parental love that desires us to cleanse our hearts. We should not only reflect critically on ourselves but also work proactively for the salvation of others by accepting that, through the challenging situations that have arisen; we are being urged to help others be saved.
From Instruction Three by the Shinbashira
Join us in joy and gratitude on the path of the Joyous Life.
October Grand Service this Sunday,
October 12, 2014, 10am
Tenrikyo Pearl Church
1634 10th Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Ph: 808-734-1449
Rev. Owen Nakao
for Peace and the Joyous Life World!
Pearl Church commemorated its 80th Anniversary on Sunday, September 14th, with many local supporters and guests from Japan. The reception was held at the Tenri Cultural Center.
Click on the link below to view our booklet!
