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Sunday Worship In-Person & Online
This week in worship, we celebrate Pentecost. Wear red, orange, or yellow - fire colors to celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit! Join us this Sunday at 10am HT in person and online via FB live. 

Helping Aging Seniors In Your Community
Although these Senior services are not offered in Hawaii this information provided here is resourceful and helpful. 

June is LGBT Pride Month
Pride celebrations occur year-round, but in the U.S. June is celebrated as LGBT Pride Month in honor of the Stonewall riots, which started on June 28, 1969. June is also the month that same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States, and the Pulse Night of Remembrance commemorates the loss of 49 people in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016.

2023 Honolulu Pride, a project of the Hawai’i LGBT Legacy Foundation, is celebrated in October to coincide with LGBT History Month, National Coming Out Day and Spirit Day, and will culminate in the Pride Parade & Festival on October 21.  

World Ocean Day
This is a free event!
Saturday, June 10 from 9am - 2pm at Waimea Valley .This free event will feature educational booths from SO MANY amazing nonprofit friends.

Happy World Ocean Month!

Need Your Car Or Home Cleaned?
Help a refugee in need!
Hire Mo to clean your car or home! Mohamed is a stateless Palestinian refugee seeking asylum in the US. Mo is in critical need of more clients so that he can afford both rent and basic needs. The Heidels know Mo from their Homesharing Hawai'i work, and can provide more info.
Mo offers both car detailing and move in/out home cleaning services (as Hygiene Pro Clean Oahu).
Contact Mo at 808-590-3868.

Blood Bank Hawaii
Ever considered donating your blood? Every 2 seconds someone in Hawaii needs blood. Over 200 blood donors are needed every single day!
Please consider becoming a donor.

Find a blood drive and schedule an appointment near you!

Make A Difference In Hawai'i
The Nature Conservancy works with people like you to protect Hawai'i's diversity of life. Together, we can protect the plants and animals that share our world and support our wellbeing.

Together we find a way.

Wish List Items Needed
By donating household items and everyday essentials to Family Promise, you can make a difference in the lives of families with children experiencing homelessness.

Family Promise of Hawai?i will be housing 4 families this month!! With their move-in quickly approaching, we are in urgent need of items to furnish their units. Please see the list below for items that are needed. If you or someone you know is interested in donating, please contact Elliot Woods @808-300-0560 ext. 1007
Items needed:

- 2x Couches
- 2x Dining tables & chairs
- Plates, bowls, cutlery
- Pots & pans
- Bookshelves
- Artwork & decor

Aloha Hour
Join us every Sunday following the service for snacks and fellowship!

Please consider volunteering to help out at Aloha Hour.  It is a great opportunity to meet and chat with everyone while helping out the church.  You would need to arrive at least by 9:30 a.m. and staying after church to service and clean up.  We are seeking help from now through June. 
If you are willing to help us out, please contact Marian Heidel 808-261-4585. She will happily show you the ropes!

Give

Greeters & Scripture Readers Needed

We are seeking greeters & scripture readers for Sunday morning Worship.
Please use this link to sign up.

June 4: Greeter, Elder on Duty needed
June 11: Greeter needed
June 18: Greeter, Elder on Duty needed
June 25: Greeter

Flowers
Please consider signing up to provide flowers for Sunday worship. You can also call the church office to find out what dates are available. 

Please consider signing up for flowers.
June: 4, 11, 18, 25 needed

Support CCU

Mahalo NUI to all who continue to support CCU with monetary gifts! 
Please start making your pledges for 2023.
Please continue to mail and / or donate online. 
Please note that online donations charge a small percentage for processing, or you can choose to pay that percentage for the church.

Pray

Send Your Prayer Requests
to [email protected] so we can be in prayer together as a community. These will be added to the prayer list and shared in our Monday prayer email.
To have your prayer included in the Monday prayer list, please submit your prayers before Thursday. Emails received after Thursday will be included the following week.

Info

Missions Committee
CCU is forming a Missions Committee! If you're looking for ways to get involved, have ideas about new opportunities for CCU to serve our community, or are just curious about our existing missions and outreach, contact Angela Gough to join us: [email protected].

Pastor Kate Installation

Mark your calendars for Pastor Kate's Installation Service! June 25th at 3:00pm at CCU. Representatives from the Presbytery of the Pacific (Presbyterian) and Pacific Southwest Region (Disciples) will be in attendance as well as two of Pastor Kate's friends from the mainland. Come gather to worship with the broader community and celebrate making it "officially official"! 

National Day Calendar
Hard to believe that we are almost half way thru the 2023 Year.
Time sure does fly by when your having fun! In addition to Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month,
June is also -

- PTSD Awareness Month
- Gun Violence Month
- Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month

Check out these Oahu Events in June!

CCU Sunday Parking

The CCU Council approved a month-to-month agreement with the FarmLovers Market  for use of the makai side of the CCU parking lot on Sunday mornings 8 am to 12 pm. The CCU lot will serve as overflow parking for the weekly market now located at Adventist Health Castle.  For more info about the market:  
https://farmlovers-online-marketplace.myshopify.com/pages/kailuatown-farmers-market 
Please direct questions to Beth Davidann @ 808-371–5594.

Support Blue Lotus
Located on CCU campus, Blue Lotus seeks to bring yoga, health, and wellness to the community of Kailua.

Click here to learn more about Blue Lotus. Discover opportunities to practice wellness.

CCU Covid Policy
Council reviewed the CCU COVID-19 Policy on April 22, 2023 and has voted to keep the current policy: wearing a mask continues to be optional. The full policy can be read on the CCU website, here.

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Community Resources
Visit our Community Resource page to view information on community resources that are available on an ongoing basis (and mentioned in previous weekly CCU emails).

CCU Has A Church App!
For those of you who use their phones as more than just a phone, CCU now has a Church App! Use this link to download, then create your user login to stay plugged in to CCU!

Click Here for more information