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Register now for the Diocese of Hawai'i's Chrism Mass & Spring Training 2025:

HULI: KA LIMA I LALO
Turning our hands to the 'aina

Saturday, April 5, 2025
The Cathedral of St. Andrew, Honolulu

Join us for the Diocese's Annual Chrism Mass & Spring Training event being held at The Cathedral of St. Andrew on Saturday, April 5, 2025.  The day will begin at 9:00 AM with the Chrism Mass and Eucharist, that will include the Renewal of Clergy Vows and Renewal of Baptismal Vows. 

Spring Training will commence immediately following the Chrism Mass, hosted by the Diocese's new Huli team, a collaborative effort involving three Diocesan ministries: Kahuaola (formerly the Creation Care and Environmental Justice Task Force), the Racial Reconciliation Task Force, and the Native Hawaiian Ministry Committee. The team was awarded a Creation Care Grant from The Episcopal Church and named their year-long project Huli, which means to turn, to change. It is also the part of the kalo that is replanted. It symbolizes our important and sacred responsibility to care for the life of these islands. 

Cost is only $25 and includes lunch. Don't let the registration fee or interisland airfare be a barrier -- assistance is available to help cover these costs!  Be sure to select the waiver box on the bottom of the registration form. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
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Free child care is also available. Be sure to enter all information for your keiki on the registration form. 

If you have any questions about the Chrism Mass, please contact Canon Sandy HERE or call (808) 536-7776, ext. 309.
For questions about the plenary sessions and workshops, please contact the Huli team HERE.
For all other logistical questions, contact Rae Costa HERE or call (808) 536-7776, ext. 326.

Schedule:

8:30AM: Check In Begins
(Will remain open all morning)

9:00AM
Chrism Mass & Eucharist with
Renewal of Clergy Vows & Baptismal Vows
​Download Service Program
 
10:30AM
Plenary Presentation I 
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11:45 AM: Lunch
​($25 event fee includes lunch)

12:30 PM
Afternoon Workshops
(Switch in schedule with Plenary II)

​1:45 PM
Plenary Presentation II
(Switch in schedule with Afternoon Workshops)

2:45 PM
​Wrapping up and sending forth

PLENARY PRESENTATIONS:

Meet your hosts and the team of Project Huli, who will talk about their work and vision through the coming year. Huli ka lima i lalo is a year of creation care centered events, beginning with this Spring training. Huli will continue into the summer with virtual online events, and then end with a service/education day during Convention 57 in October.  It is a collaborative effort of Kahuaola (formerly Creation Care and Environmental Justice Task Force), the Racial Reconciliation Task Force and the Native Hawaiian Ministry Committee. This special collaboration is weaving mālama ʻāina through their shared work and activities throughout 2025, and hope you will join them on this transformative journey to huli or change our minds, hearts and hands to continue and carry on this important call and responsibility in the Diocese and world.

Mālama ʻĀina with Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio
Join Dr. Jonathan Osorio as he talks about Mālama ʻĀina, caring and honoring our land.  Dr. Osorio is Dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. He received his PhD in History from the University of Hawaiʻi. At Kamakakūokalani, he has developed and taught classes in history, literature, law as culture, music as historical texts, and research methodologies for and from indigenous peoples. His recent publications include The Value of Hawaiʻi: Knowing the Past and Shaping the Future, which he co-edited and authored, and Dismembering Lāhui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887. He is also a composer and singer and has been a Hawaiian music recording artist since 1975.

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Hōkūleʻa: Moananuiākea: A Voyage for Oceans, A Voyage for Earth
Moananuiākea is Hōkūleʻa’s 15th major voyage in her first 50 years. We welcome guest speaker, Bonnie Kahapea-Tanner, executive director and captain of the Kanehunamoku Voyaging Academy, who has been sharing her love of sailing and traditional Hawaiian wayfinding for over 30 years. 

​In 1999, Bonnie was a crew member of the Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Makaliʻi.  In this epic voyage, E Mau - Sailing the Master Home, Bonnie sailed and learned from grand master navigator, Mau Piailug and master navigator Shorty Bertelmann.  After completing the 3,600 mile, three-month voyage from Hawaiʻi to Saipan, she helped to open Halau Ku Mana Public Charter School and launched the waʻa, Kanehunamoku, a 29 ft. coastal sailing canoe, to share and teach voyaging culture and practice in 2002. In 2014, Bonnie was a crew member aboard Hōkūle'a for leg 2 of the worldwide voyage and sailed from Rarotonga to Samoa.  In 2019, Bonnie was again on board the Makaliʻi in another special voyage to Nihoa and Mokumanamana, two isolated islands in the Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Monument. She holds a BA in Hawaiian Studies, a MS in Counseling Psychology, and an MA in Transformative Learning and Change.  Bonnie lives in Heʻeia, Oʻahu, with her husband Halona Tanner and daughters, Kaialea (18) and Lehia (16).

​At the core of Hōkūleʻa’s creation was exploration – to uncover, recover, and reclaim. Reclaim our culture, traditions, and our relationship to home and our island earth. Moananuiākea is no different, but we are now guided by what the worldwide voyage told us – that we must deepen our values in the voyage and move from exploration and understanding to mālama, or caring, and kuleana, or taking responsibility. With those values, we must move discovery toward choices and actions that we believe will help build a future good enough for our children. This is our most difficult voyage yet because the destination is not ours. It will be the most difficult island yet to find, because it is the future of island earth.

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AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS:

For the afternoon workshop session, participants can choose one of three offerings:

CLOSED - FULLY BOOKED
​Touring Umeke Lāʻau with Meleanna Aluli Meyer Meleanna Alui Meyer is a life-long advocate for culture and the arts and has spent her career as a practicing artist, arts educator, documentary filmmaker, arts and social justice advocate and creative visionary in community. She is the recipient of numerous awards, exhibiting her work throughout Hawai'i and the world. 

Her latest project, Umeke Lāʻau, is a large-scale sculptural calabash currently on display at Honolulu Hale until May 4, 2025. Spanning 22 feet in diameter, ʻUmeke Lāʻau serves as a gathering space for meaningful conversations, cultural exchange, and healing through art. The sculpture was commissioned by HT25, a multi-site exhibition of contemporary art from Hawaiʻi, the Pacific, and beyond. Visit the subject of Meleanna Meyer's presentation at Honolulu Hale. The giant calabash bowl sculpture was commissioned by curators of Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25), a multi-site exhibition of contemporary art from Hawaiʻi, the Pacific, and beyond. Click HERE to read about the history of this incredible project.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This selection will require folks to take a 10-minute (.4 mile) walk to/from the Cathedral to Honolulu Hale, and the attendance will be capped off at 25. 

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Art for a Healthier Environment and Global Society with Jodi Endicott
Jodi Endicott creates contemporary fossils from such past desires and discards. As an artist and environmental advocate, she uses these materials to show us the impact of our “plastic cocoon” and how we are treating ourselves, each other, and our world. 

​Jodi Endicott's art works have been presented in solo or group exhibitions in museums and galleries in the United States and Japan, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; the Hawaii State Art Museum; the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawai’i; Maui Arts & Cultural Center, in Kahalui, Maui and Hui No’eau in Makawao, Maui as well as recently in Khatmandu and Korea with the International Artists Association. Click HERE to visit her website.

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Climate Change Forum with the Rev. Jenn Latham
From our own Creation Care ministry team, Kahuaola, the Rev. Jenn Latham will talk about climate change and what we can do to help protect our fragile environment.

Since 2021, Rev. Jenn has been leading the charge with the Rev. Brianna Lloyd, for the Diocese's Environmental Justice/Creation Care ministry recently renamed Kahuaola (Guardians of Life). They maintain the Kahualoa webpage, keeping it updated with the work they are doing, resources, and grant opportunities available.  They invite others to join their team. 

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CANCELLED* Beat! That! Heat! Climate Action Game Show 
 "What if Family Feud, Celebrity Lipsync Battle, and Double Dare all joined forces to stop climate change?  The Creation Care and Environmental Justice Task Force invites you to join us for Beat! That! Heat! -- a game show where players contribute to climate solutions while having a great time."   

*This workshop is being rescheduled for Education Day during Convention 57 at 'Iolani School, Friday, October 24. Those who previously signed up for this workshop may choose the Art for a Healthier Environment or Climate Change Forum on the day of the event.

REGARDING INTERISLAND TRAVEL:

The Diocese will cover air travel expenses for two authorized persons (e.g. clergy and one lay or two lay) from each neighbor island congregation.  Please click HERE for travel procedures.

For all others, if your church will be paying for your interisland airfare, you can arrange for your flight through the Diocesan Travel Coordinator and we will invoice your church.  If your church will not be paying for your airfare, please make your own arrangements.
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Contact the Diocesan Travel Coordinator HERE to submit an interisland Air Travel Request. Clergy authorizing a lay person for their congregation shall submit the air travel request  together with their own.  

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