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St. Mark's Episcopal Church

Honolulu

Faith Stories Journal

St. Mark's Episcopal Church

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  • About Us/
    • Rector's Welcome
    • Clergy + Leadership
    • Our History
    • Kama'aina Kids Preschool
    • LGBTQIA Welcome
    • Visitor + Parking Information
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    • What's Happening
    • Rector's Journal
    • The Evangel Newsletter
    • Social Media + Videos
    • Parish Calendar
  • Worship + Music/
    • Upcoming Sundays + Holy Days
    • Worship Schedule
    • High Mass
    • Vespers + Benediction
    • Daily Office
    • Worship Livestream
    • St. Mark's Choir
  • Formation/
    • Current Formation Offerings
    • Children's Catechesis
    • Cure of Souls + Sacraments
    • The Guild of the Annunciation BVM
    • The Guild of All Souls
    • Confession
    • 2026 Pilgrimage to Sicily, Rome, and Assisi
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Faith Stories Journal

Welcome to St. Mark's Faith Story Journal. Here you will find articles written by our clergy and parishioners on faith and discipleship.


October 29, 2018

Generation to Generation

October 29, 2018/ St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Honolulu
Generation to Generation

Linnea Tokushige offers the story of her faith, as well as how St. Mark’s helps her grow in Christ. In this video she traces her faith back to her grandmother and father, striving to make the faith her own today.

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October 29, 2018/ St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Honolulu/
October 14, 2018

It's What We Do

October 14, 2018/ St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Honolulu
It's What We Do

Jesse Wilson started attending St. Mark’s one year ago, and this past spring he was baptized at the Easter Vigil. In this video, he offers his faith story, as well as how St. Mark’s helps him grow in Christ.

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October 14, 2018/ St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Honolulu/
October 16, 2017

Learning to See God's Grace

October 16, 2017/ St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Honolulu
Learning to See God's Grace

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Kaye Kawahara. I serve on the Vestry of St. Mark's and also on the Finance Committee. I’m a practicing oncologist - that is a cancer doctor.

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October 16, 2017/ St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Honolulu/
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Stewardship Stories Journal Contents

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Generation to Generation
Generation to Generation

Linnea Tokushige offers the story of her faith, as well as how St. Mark’s helps her grow in Christ. In this video she traces her faith back to her grandmother and father, striving to make the faith her own today.

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It's What We Do
It's What We Do

Jesse Wilson started attending St. Mark’s one year ago, and this past spring he was baptized at the Easter Vigil. In this video, he offers his faith story, as well as how St. Mark’s helps him grow in Christ.

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Learning to See God's Grace
Learning to See God's Grace

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Kaye Kawahara. I serve on the Vestry of St. Mark's and also on the Finance Committee. I’m a practicing oncologist - that is a cancer doctor.

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A Musical Journey to Baptism
A Musical Journey to Baptism

As many of you know, I came to St. Mark’s through the choir. While studying music in college, I found a Craigslist post advertising the section leader position.

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High Mass as Evangelism
High Mass as Evangelism

Many of you have seen me serving as an acolyte or in some other capacity at our Sunday High Mass or at Evensong, or during one of the many other beautiful services we celebrate here on feast days throughout the church year.

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Search and you shall find
Search and you shall find

Good morning! My name is Karen Haas, and I’ve been coming to St. Mark’s since March of 2014.

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Finding a Church Home

My name is Tim Valadez, and this is my wife Theresa and our son Alexander. The stewardship committee has asked me to speak about what St. Mark’s means to me.

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The Bread of Life

In this Sunday’s gospel Jesus declares himself to be the bread of life. As many of you know, bread is one of my favorite foods (and one of the few things you will see me eat at any parish potluck or shared meal). It’s remarkable that from a few simple ingredients (flour, water, yeast) comes so much variety and diversity.

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It all began with a friend's baptism
It all began with a friend's baptism

My first visit to the Episcopal Church was at St Mark's for Wayne Yoshigai's baptism over 25 years ago. I remember sitting in the pew watching my friend Wayne dressed in a white robe, standing in a cast iron tub and having water poured over him. Wow!

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The Parable of the Talents
The Parable of the Talents

I love all of the arts - sculpture, ceramics, painting, music, all of the arts. There are Medieval paintings by the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that depict a very peculiar theme. These paintings I refer to do not depict the holy family, or our Lord, or the saints, or natural landscapes, or even beautiful women or handsome men. 

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A Visit to St. Mark's
A Visit to St. Mark's

Sunday is the Lord's Day, not our day. It is the day upon which we "render to God the things that are His" alone. It is our privilege, as well as our plain duty, on Sunday to offer to Almighty God that tribute of loving and obedient worship by which we express how much God is worth to us.

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Gratitude
Gratitude

As I write this column I have been back in the office for exactly one week, having returned from my trip to the mainland. It was an excellent trip.

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Listen to your mother!
Listen to your mother!

My journey to St. Mark’s is a modern Greek religious Odyssey. Stage one begins in Illinois where I was born to a Greek Orthodox couple, the mother of which embraced her religion devoutly. She expected here four children to do likewise. We had to attend church regularly, serve as acolytes, and sing in the choir. 

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Stewardship Top Ten
Stewardship Top Ten

We are at that time of the year when our churches are doing stewardship campaigns. Here is a list of ten things to keep in mind as we do this important work.

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Made for Goodness
Made for Goodness

In this book, Archbishop Tutu shares how we learn to talk with God; how he has heard God speak to us; how to tune in to God's language; how to understand and use God's words to guide us through life. The theme of stewardship is prominent throughout the book - how we are stewards of God's creation and our interconnected relationships with all persons.

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Hawaiian Values & Godly Play
Hawaiian Values & Godly Play

The book Made for Goodness and Why This Makes All the Difference reminds us that we all have goodness inside of us --  we just need to tap into it.

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The Money Exchange
The Money Exchange

Working at a money exchange in Waikiki gives me the opportunity to observe people and the way they handle their money. Some people are proud of their fortunes and take a bit of satisfaction in seeing it displayed across the counter. Others discretely pass me an envelope and make a request not to count their money out in the open.

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Our Selves, Our Souls, & Our Bodies
Our Selves, Our Souls, & Our Bodies

Though I must admit to never having been a very good student of history in school, I have, as an adult, developed a fascination for the type of living history related to us by those who actually lived it--not the names and dates in a textbook, but the oral accounts of the factory workers, soldiers, and homemakers who experienced events firsthand and can tell us what it was like to have been an ordinary person in extraordinary times.

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Sicily, Rome, and Assisi
Sicily, Rome, and Assisi