| | The Founders’ Day’ Ho’olaule’a
with honors to Queen Emma Kaleleonalani September 25th,2005. Following worship at 9:30am, we shared in an all-afternoon celebration of our 119th anniversary as a community of faith. See snapshots from the day.
The Founders’ Day’ Ho’olaule’a with honors to Queen Emma Kaleleonalani remembered the first gathering on September 18th, 1886, of what would become St Peter's Episcopal Church. We also honored the wife of Kamehameha IV, Emma Kaleleonalani, benefactor to the founding and construction of St Peter's. The afternoon offered a revision of our parish picnic. Instead of going to the North Shore, we gathered in Queen Emma Square. An afternoon of ono Hawaiian food along with musical entertainment and children’s activities highlighted the beginning of our 120th year for God's mission and ministry. Featured entertainment included The Royal Hawaiian Band and The Prince Kuhio Civic Chorale, Owana Salazar. Our Ho’olaule’a and Festival brought to a close the city’s Aloha Week festivities. Festivities lasted from 11:30am to 5pm. All entertainment and festivities were open to our community and ohana in Honolulu. Just as the great sea turtles, the honu, return home to birth a new generation - we return home to St Peter's to celebrate our beginnings. A Prayer in Remembrance of Queen Emma Kaleleonalani, wife of Kamehameha IV O God, you binds us in life by your holy and tender ties: we gratefully recall all that our beloved Queen Emma was to her people and to us; all that she stood for in this world. May we live ever more constantly in the companionship of her spirit, and carry out, in the spheres in which she moved with people, as much of her purpose we can. May we be kind to the people she loved, devoted to the Islands in which she lived, loyal to the causes which she served. Thus in our life may she live on, to our own comfort, and the welfare of Hawaii, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amene. Come Home and Join in our 120th year on mission for Jesus! |
