Join us at the beautiful Lahuiokalani Ka'anapali Congregation Church in Honokowai this Sunday, May 5th, at 12:00 PM.

We will be meeting at the beautiful Lahuiokalani Ka'anapali Congregation Church in Honokowai, 3654 Lower Honoapiilani Rd, Lahaina, HI 96761, this Sunday at 12:00 PM. 

We will live-streaming the service on our Facebook page,   https://www.facebook.com/lahainaumc/live

Parking:

Parking at the church is limited, but there is parking available next door at the Farmer’s Market store and at the apartment complex behind the store. (See map below)

The Lahaina Disaster Recovery Center will close permanently on Saturday, April 27, but that doesn’t mean FEMA won’t continue to help the people who were displaced by the August wildfires on Maui or that FEMA is leaving the state.

Helping Maui recover will take time, and FEMA will be here for the long haul.

Even after the recovery center at Lahaina Civic Center Gymnasium closes at 3 p.m. on April 27, help from FEMA is just a phone call away. Survivors can get answers from trained specialists at the FEMA Helpline at 800-621-3362. Operators speak many languages and are available to answer your questions from 2 a.m. to 9 p.m. HST, seven days a week.

Survivors who are waiting to be placed in units offered under FEMA’s Direct Lease program can call 808-784-1600. Leave your nine-digit FEMA registration number and a phone number where you can be reached, and a case worker will return your call within 24 hours.

Those who need continuing rental assistance can reach out to FEMA Helpline specialists. It is also important to stay in touch with FEMA if you change your address or phone number, even if only temporarily. Missing or wrong information could delay your assistance.

You can also update FEMA about changes to your personal information by visiting DisasterAssistance.gov. You may click on the green ‘Check Status’ button to create an online account. Use the same email you provided when you applied for assistance. If you applied online or used the FEMA app, you already have a disaster assistance account.

Join us as we celebrate the gift of resurrection together at the beautiful Lahuiokalani Ka'anapali Congregation Church in Honokowai (3654 Lower Honoapiilani Rd, Lahaina, HI 96761) on Easter Sunday, March 31st, at 12:00 PM.

You may also join us via Facebook Live by going to https://www.facebook.com/l.

We will have a Christmas Day service on Monday, December 25th, at 10:00 AM.

While we are waiting to get back to our property in Lahaina, our congregation will have our worship service at a temporary location: the beautiful Lahuiokalani Ka'anapali Congregation Church in Honokowai, 3654 Lower Honoapiilani Rd, Lahaina, HI 96761.
We will live-streaming the service on our Facebook page, 

https://facebook.com/lahainaumc/live

Parking at the church is limited, but there is parking available next door at the Farmer’s Market store and at the apartment complex behind the store. (See map below)

We are delighted and honored to welcome Bishop Dottie Escobedo-Frank, District Superintendent Tom Choi, and District Administrator Sonya Lee to our Sunday worship service this Sunday, October 15th, at 12:00 PM.  Bishop Dottie will preside over a special communion service, and we will be worshipping at the beautiful Lahuiokalani Ka’anapali Congregation Church in Honokowai. 


The address is 3654 Lower Honoapiilani Rd, Lahaina, HI 96761. 

If you cannot join us in person, we will live-stream the service on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lahainaumc/live.

Parking:

Parking at the church is limited, but there is parking available next door at the Farmer’s Market store and at the apartment complex behind the store.  (See map below)

Aloha Ke Akua,

Pastor John

Our beloved friend and brother in Christ, Frank Emanuel, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, this past Friday, September 22, 2023. We will be holding a funeral service to remember and honor him this Sunday, October 1st, at 2 PM at Lahuiokalani Ka’analpali Congregational Church, 3650 L Honoapiilani Rd., Honokowai, HI 96761. The service will be held one hour after our Sunday noon worship service.

After the service, the family invites you to stay a while, enjoy cake and punch, and talk story on the lawn in front of the church.

Parking:

Parking at the church is limited, but there is parking available next door at the Farmer’s Market store and at the apartment complex behind the store. (See map below)

Frank S Emanuel, 88, of Kahana, Maui, passed away peacefully on September 22, 2023, surrounded by his loving family at his home in Kahana while under hospice care. Frank was born on July 28, 1935, in West Orange, New Jersey to Robert S Emanuel of West Orange, New Jersey and Dorothy (Dot) Stone Emanuel of Hardwick, Vermont. Frank passed away two weeks short of the 55th anniversary of his wedding to his wife, Jane. Frank was predeceased by his brother John (Jack) Emanuel. He is survived by his sister Grace Gilkeson, his wife S. Jane Emanuel; sons, Frank (Ty) and Robert (Rob); daughter-in-law Mary, Ty’s partner Amanda, grandson Leo Emanuel and several nieces and nephews.

Frank graduated from the University of Vermont and served overseas as an officer in the United States Airforce. His profession was Hotelier, managing resorts in Florida and Vermont. He and Jane were owner-innkeepers of the Middlebury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont for 30 years before retiring to Maui. For the last 35 years Frank and Jane spent time in Kahana, Maui, fully retiring there fifteen years ago. Frank was an active member and trustee of the Lahaina United Methodist Church and a lifelong supporter of his family’s historical church, St John The Baptist’s Episcopal Church in Hardwick, Vermont.

Please click this link to the Ballard Family Mortuary site to share your memories of Frank.  

Aloha Ke Akua,

Pastor John

Free training: This Saturday from 1PM to 3PM at Lahuikalanu Ka'anipali Congregational Church, 3650 L. Honoapiiliani Rd. Lahaina, HI (across from Honokowai Park), Kim Ala'ilima will be hosting free training in TFT (Thought Feel Therapy). TFT is an easy-to-practice intervention designed to relieve stress, pain, anxiety, grief, and trauma. Please join us for this wonderful. opportunity to learn a practice that helps relieve the tension during stressful times.

Hui means group or band in Hawaiian. The great British Evangelist and founder of the Methodist movement instructed all followers to set up bands or groups of people. The leaders of the groups were instructed to ask each person, “How is it with their souls.” 

So in our monthly gatherings, we will discuss how our faith informs the topics of the day, share scripture passages that inspire us, and we will also share our prayer requests and struggles.  These will be hybrid meetings, so you can come in person or join us online.

You will be able to join us remotely by clicking on the following link: https://zoom.us/j/8855454622

This is a hybrid meeting, so you may join us online or in person.

The meeting begins at 11 AM, immediately after our service, in the fellowship hall. If you are joining online, please click on this link to join us:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/8855454622

if you are joining in person, we will have a large screen, microphones, and speakers so that all may interact.

I hope to see you there!

Aloha!

This Sunday at 6:00 PM, we will be meeting in person in our sanctuary as well as live streaming our Tongan worship meeting at //facebook.com/lahainaumc/live. All are welcome!

Please join us for our weekly Facebook live stream services, and if you are in Lahaina, we will also be meeting in person. Our service will be held at 9:30 AM HST

Click here to watch our live stream services: https://www.facebook.com/lahainaumc/live

Please join us this Saturday evening as we baptize Rebecca Gibby into our congregation. Rebecca was not raised in the Christian faith; however, she heard the call of Jesus and has been attending our church during her visit here in Lahaina. Her faith journey has led her to make this life-changing commitment to become a disciple of Christ through the Sacrament of Baptism.

We will meet at Lahaina UMC on Saturday, August 5, at 6:15 PM and walk over to Baby Beach at 6:30 PM to perform the baptism in the ocean.

After the baptism, we will celebrate with a spaghetti dinner in the Fellowship Hall, so please come and welcome Rebecca into our ohana.

Please contact our office if you would like to volunteer to talk with and pray with our houseless friends who join us for breakfast and Bible study. Please contact our office at lumcmaui@gmail.com or call us at (808) 661-3320.

Because of staffing issues, the trailer is not coming by to our church on Fridays at this time, but we are providing breakfast, Bible study, and fellowship for many of MRM’s patrons on Fridays, beginning at 9 AM. We also usually have a nurse on hand to provide first aid and a worker from ProjectVision to sign people up for food assistance.

The trailer comes to the West side of Maui each Wednesday from 10 AM to 2 PM at Lahaina Baptist Church, 520 Wainee St Lahaina, HI 96761 .

If you would like to help our project, we can always use clothing and toiletry items for “dignity bags” like soap, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes, combs, washing detergent, etc. Please drop your donations off at our office, and we will provide them to our patrons on Fridays.

Mahalo!

On Thursdays from 10 AM to 12 PM, Feed My Sheep is on our campus supporting our local community with groceries, emotional and spiritual support, and prayer. For volunteer opportunities, check out http://www.feedmysheepmaui.com/index.php/volunteering.

This is a hybrid meeting, so you may join us online or in person.

The meeting begins at 11 AM, immediately after our service, in the Fellowship Hall. If you are joining online, please click on this link to join us:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/8855454622

All are welcome.

I hope to see you there!

Aloha!

Front Street in Lahaina is a very busy place on Independence Day, and many cars come into town. This is a great opportunity for our church to raise funds by providing parking for visitors. This year, we will also have a family picnic. So, if you are coming to town to enjoy the activities on Independence Day, stop by our church, get something to eat, and say hello.

This is a hybrid meeting, so you may join us online or in person.

The meeting begins at 11 AM, immediately after our service, in the fellowship hall. If you are joining online, please click on this link to join us:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/8855454622

if you are joining in person, we will have a large screen, microphones, and speakers so that all may interact.

I hope to see you there!

Aloha!

This is a hybrid meeting, so you may join us online or in person.

The meeting begins at 11 AM, immediately after our service, in the fellowship hall. If you are joining online, please click on this link to join us:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/8855454622

if you are joining in person, we will have a large screen, microphones, and speakers so that all may interact.

I hope to see you there!

Aloha!

Think of your favorite hymn, and if we have the music, Lars Clutterham will play it, and we will sing it this Tuesday evening, May 30th, at 6 PM in our sanctuary. We hope to see you there to join in the fun!

Join us at Lahaina United Methodist Church as we end this year’s season of Lent with a Good Friday evening service on Friday, April 7th, at 6:00 PM.

We will be meeting in-person and online at https://www.facebook.com/lahainaumc/live.

The West Maui Community Task Force will host a fun-filled Easter celebration for our houseless community on April 7 at 11:30 am. Please mark your calendars. Lahaina United Methodist Church.

The Maui Rescue Mission and Project Vision will also join us in the festivities. Please come and celebrate Holy Week.

We will have food provided by our friends from the West Maui Community Task Force as well as good for all of our guests and music.

Join us at Lahaina United Methodist Church as we end this year’s season of Lent with Maundy Thursday evening service on Thursday, April 7th, at 6:00 PM.

We will be meeting in-person and online at https://www.facebook.com/lahainaumc/live.

Join us as, either in-person or online, as we begin this year’s season of Lent with an Ash Wednesday service on Wednesday, February 22nd at 6:00 PM.

Join us as we celebrate the wonderful life of Clara Henry. Clara and David Henry had been members of our church for many years and have devotedly served Lahaina United Methodist Church until they moved to Oahu in 2018.

Clara Henry finished her faithful service in this world on August 6, 2022, and she now joins David, who went to his reward with Our Lord on August 8, 2018.

Our service will be held on

Saturday, February 4th at10:30 AM

Lunch to Follow in our Fellowship Hall

We will be having an outdoor Christmas Eve service on the lawn in back of the church on December 24th at 4:30 PM. We will be livestreaming this service at:

https://facebook.com/lahainaumc/live.

Mele Kalikimaka

Ala Lani, Honolua, and Lahaina United Methodist Churches are planning a joint mission project at Lahaina United Methodist Church,

On December 16th, from 11 AM to 1 PM, we will have a Christmas celebration with all of our homeless neighbors and friends. The Maui Rescue Mission and Project Vision will also join us in the festivities. Please come and celebrate the birth of Christ with some of our neighbors in our community.

We will have food provided by the Tagaloa/Malamala family, games, and gifts for all of our guests.

Join us on Saturday morning to decorate our church. Coffee, pastries, and coco will be provided.

Lahaina United Methodist Church participates in the Salvation Army Thanksgiving Lunch Delivery program. We will meet at our church parking lot at 11:00 AM, and then we will head over to the Salvation Army to help with their lunch distribution.

The Salvation Army will give us the meals and instructions for where we should deliver them.

If you would like to participate with us, please meet us at the church parking lot, 988 Front St, Lahaina, HI 96761, at 11:00 AM.

We will then head to the Salvation on 131 Shaw St, Lahaina, HI, to arrive by 11:20 AM.

Ke Akua pū,

Pastor John

On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 3:00 PM, we will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of our church building on Front Street. The congregation started as a Japanese mission to the sugar and pineapple plantations in 1896. In 1922, we constructed a permanent church building to minister to the growing families in our congregation.

Our congregation has greatly changed over the 100 years since we moved to our location on Front Street. We will therefore be kicking off our 101st year by celebrating the many cultures that make up our congregation with a ceremony, entertainment, and feast.

If you are on the island, we invite you to join us in the celebration.