WORSHIP & DEVOTIONALS
Opening Worship | Sunday, October 4, 2020
DEVOTIONAL • Monday, October 5, 2020
2026 Lenten Study
Exploring Our Family Stories
Engage your congregation this Lent with a six-session journey exploring family stories through Scripture, history, and faith. Discover how God’s grace weaves through generations and how our past shapes our present and future.
Story Circles
Connect deeply through sharing and listening
Video Reflections
From Conference Minister David Popham
Engaging Discussions
Questions that spark meaningful conversation
Lenten Practices
Nurture grace, reconciliation, and renewal
Do this study at your church!
Churches are encouraged to host their own study groups. The HCUCC Editorial Team has put together a study guide for groups to use on their own. The study guide includes six sessions that could be held during the six weeks of Lent and facilitated by a pastor or lay leader.
Click HERE to download a general flyer graphic that you may use to promote your study group.
Click HERE for an editable Canva template to create your own promotional materials for your church study group!
If your church study group is open for others to join (either in person or virtually), please let us know when and where you plan to meet and we can list your meeting times here for others whose churches may not be holding a study group. Email media@hcucc.org.
The Conference office will also host a Zoom option for folks whose churches may not be holding a study group:
Wednesdays from 7-8 PM HST
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February 25, 2026
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March 4, 2026
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March 11, 2026
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March 18, 2026
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March 25, 2026
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April 1, 2026
Video Reflections
The following Video Reflections are to be used with the study guide. There is one for each session/week.
View the full YouTube video playlist: Exploring Our Family Stories - Lent 2026
Session 1: How Do We Tell Our Stories
(Video length: 4:41) Conference Minister, Kahu David Popham, reflects on the use of Hawaiian language in the Hawaiian Evangelical Association versus its use in the wider Territory of Hawai‘i context as an example of how personal experience shapes our storytelling.
Session 2: Unpacking Complicated Stories
(Video length: 6:43) Conference Minister, Kahu David Popham, uses the story of the Mission Memorial building to unpack the complicated strain in the aspirations of the Hawaiian Evangelical Board to be both a revered institution by society and a relevant organization among the youth.
Session 3: Glorious and Inglorious Storytelling
(Video length: 4:57) Conference Minister, Kahu David Popham, reflects on the tension of the Hawaii Evangelical Association Board as inheritors of a glorious and inglorious legacy situated between an honored missionary movement and betrayal of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Session 4: The Big History and Our Stories
(Video length: 5:19) Conference Minister, Kahu David Popham, reflects on the Hawaiian Evangelical Association Board’s awareness and reactions to World War I and how their faith both grasped and failed to grasp the implications of this global historical event.
Session 5: What Informs Our Storytelling
(Video length: 5:04) Conference Minister, Kahu David Popham, shares how the aspirations of one generation informed the narratives of another generation as reflected in the opening stories of Nu‘uanu Congregational Church and the Mid Pacific Institute.
Session 6: Recovering Lost Voices
(Video length: 6:24) Conference Minister, Kahu David Popham, surprises us with which voices are found in the minutes of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association Board, and which voice is conspicuously absent for a Congregational body and in need of recovering through other sources.