1300 Kailua Rd.
Kailua, HI 96734
808-262-6911
Sunday
Adult study - 8:30 a.m.
Worship - 10:00 a.m.
Aloha fellowship - 11:15 am
Thursday
Chancel Ringers - 6:30 p.m.
Chancel Choir - 7:30 p.m.
WITNESS COMMISSION
The Witness Commission brings “good news to the poor, sight to blind and proclaims
release to the captives.” (Luke 4: 18-19) Our task is to lead our church membership
in providing practical support for social justice actions, community building, and
spiritual growth through acting out our faith in love and compassion.
We are longtime financial and material supporters of local missions on Oahu
and financially, of national and overseas Disciples and Presbyterian ministries.
- www.globalministries.org
- www.discipleshomemissions.org
- www.disciplespswr.org/links.htm
- www.pcusa.org/navigation/mission.htm
- www.pcusa.org/missionconnections
- www.presbyteryofthepacific.org/mission/index.html
We give 10 % of our total income to support these ministries. In addition we have three special offerings: One Great Hour of Sharing/Week of Compassion, Peacemaking & Reconciliation, and Christmas Joy. We send half of our denominational mission money to the Presbyterians and half to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
We have a special connection with missionaries, Ed and Miriam Noyes, who, through the American Baptist International Ministries, do agricultural and literacy work in Lusekele, in the southwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Learn more about their work at http://noyescongo.blogspot.com/
Our primary hands-on witness ministry is Family Promise, an organization of churches on Oahu who provide shelter, meals, and social service support at a Center. Approximately 35 CCU volunteers and friends host 3 to 5 homeless families (16 people) upstairs in our building for a week each quarter.
Through Common Ground we use the resource of our building’s space to co-sponsor and bless community based programs that resonate with our Mission Vision.
We are members of Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) (www.facehawaii.org), an interfaith community organization working to improve the quality of life for all in our communities. The issues we take up emerge from the listening process of our member units, and enable our members to live out our common, faith-based values and exert our collective power by engaging in actions which challenge the systems that perpetuate poverty and injustice.
We work together with other Kailua churches in the Windward Coalition of Churches holding union services at during special seasons, supporting a food pantry, giving education scholarships for women in prison, sponsoring choir workshops and seasonal concerts, a theologian in residence program, and providing ministerial fellowship.