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WAILUKU UNION CHURCH

Here is the beautiful church that my engineer great grandfather (Wilbur Romaine Patterson) helped to build in Wailuku, Maui, many years ago (1912). He was on his way to the Philippines during the days of the Spanish American war, stopped in Hawaii, married Lillian Pili Kekoanui, had 13 children, then went to Oregon. The Pili Kekoanui ohana have ancestral roots in Hana and Kaupo. Prayers for Maui and all the ohana in need of recovery and hope!

WAILUKU UNION CHURCH

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Constructed of stones gathered in Iao Valley and the fields of the Wailuku Sugar Company, this Gothic Revival church, with its steeply pitched gable roofs, corner buttresses, and crenellated tower, offers a traditional image of Christendom to the city, “a masterpiece for the glory of God,” according to the Maui News on January 20, 1912.

HERE ARE THE MORNING PRAYERS – HOLY WEEK PRAYERS FOR ALL THE OHANA ON MAUI FOR HEALING, NEW LIFE, AND NEW BEGINNINGS….

Women at the foot
of the bamboo cross on
Good Friday on the hillside
at Halawa Correctional 2023
Haaheo, Mary, Barbara, Cassie, Kylie
Guy Lopes was released yesterday,
maxing out from Halawa Correctional. I was able to “meet and greet” and support him on his new journey and life with a bac pac from St. Elizabeth that was tied to one of the mini donkeys (see photo below). I had a sleeping bag to give him and a case of ramen. He was wearing reentry clothes that we had packaged for Halawa Intake Services, at our Kaumakapili Church work day a few months ago. The shirt above was donated by the Hawaii Yacht Club and the shorts from the Episcopal Prisons Ministry Project.
Reentry Bac Pacs on
two mini donkeys (Gidgit and Guy)
Blessing 25 Reentry Bac Pacs
at St. Elizabeth on Palm Sunday
Mahalo!

Palm Sunday on the lawn at the
beautiful Kaumakapili Church (1911)
after the round the block
Palm Sunday Parade and the
Zone of Peace and Nonviolence
with community partners (3.24.24)

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