Blast from the Past: Summer Issue (May-June 2006) of the Ho`oulu

A new column for this website is to remember previous issues of the Ho`oulu, St. John’s official newsletter. In this post, we’re going to look back at our May-June 2006 issue where we remember our last official visit by the Rt. Rev. Richard S.O. Chang.

For this issue, I originally intended to include Bishop Chang’s sermon in written form. However the idea was shot to the ground when he showed me that his entire notes were just a tiny outline of points to cover–everthing was pretty much done extemporaneously and without going off into meaningless tangents!

The other thing I remember about that day was the Bishop humorously making a post-9/11 commentary of the times, explaining how difficult it was to transport his wooden Crosier onto airplanes without raising TSA agents’ suspicions!

In this issue of the Ho`oulu:

• A recollection of Bishop Richard S.O. Chang’s last official visit as Bishop of Hawaii
• A pictorial teaching how to have an extravagant lu`au in three easy steps
• Baptisms and Confirmations done between January and June 2006

Click the tab on the top right corner to enlarge to full-screen. If you want to download, click “More” and drop-down menu will appear–click “Save Document” to save:

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Easter Service 2009

The April-May 2009 newsletter will be e-mailed to everyone on Saturday. Subsequently the print version will be distributed on Sunday. One thing everyone will notice is that I just did not have enough room for all the wonderful pictures for this issue.

For those who missed out our Easter Service, I’ve uploaded a photo gallery of what went on that day… Be on the lookout for other photo galleries of past events and goings-on at good ole St. John’s By-the-Sea!

April-May 2009 Issue of Ho`oulu online newsletter

Interested in learning more about St. John’s By-the-Sea? Then download the latest issue of the Ho`oulu’s online newsletter.

In this issue:

• Honolulu Star-Bulletin‘s Mary Adamski’s feature article on St. John’s and it’s quarterly all-Hawaiian language service
• Fr. David Gierlach on how faith cannot be separated from real life
• Pictorial on a recent group of young Tahitian visitors expressing themselves and their thanks through the gift of dance!

As a little experiment, I am trying a free website that allows people to download the newsletter from a source outside of their regular e-mail. This way, people’s e-mail inboxes won’t be filled with such a large file.

Granted, a free site would possibly result in pop-ups and ads and whatnot. So don’t say I didn’t warn you. (If you would rather get our newsletter via e-mail, simply send your request to MC_L (at) hotmail.com with “I want my copy of the newsletter” in the subject line. If you are already on the e-mail list, you don’t have to do this–you’ll continue to get the newsletter via e-mail.)

If you’d like to help me out with this little experiment, download your FREE copy of the April-May 2009 issue of the Ho`oulu right here: http://www.mediafire.com/?jgywm4qzjt2

Once you click the above link, another page will pop up. On that page, click on the link that says “Click here to start download” and you can save the pdf file onto your computer.

Update: I found an even better website to store an archive of the newsletters online–and without worrying about unwanted pop-ups on your computer. And better yet: you don’t have to download the newsletter to your hard drive if you don’t want to!

Simply click on the tab on the top right corner of the gray box below to view the newsletter full-screen. And if you really want to, you can still download the file to your computer by clicking on “More” and then “Save Document”:

And by all means, share it with your family and friends!

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March Baptism

Again I must thank Vicki Fay for taking these pictures for me when I was without the church camera. This set was for a baptism held at St. John’s By-the-Sea on March 15. Due to a lack of space, I couldn’t fit this and the other sets of photos in the newsletter. But really now … don’t you think the pictures look way better in color?!