The season of Lent begins with a very special worship on Ash Wednesday. This beautiful evening service begins the Lenten season of reflection, prayer, and preparation as we hear the words from Genesis 3:19, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Ashes, a sign of mourning and repentance, are placed on our foreheads as a reminder of our mortality, but the ashes are in the shape of a cross, a sign of promise, and life, and hope.
Ash Wednesday—and the whole season of Lent—calls us to reflect and remember the precious gift of life and love that God has given us in creation and community and to re-center our thoughts and spirit on what truly matters. As we gather around the communion table in worship on Ash Wednesday, we see our neighbor with the same smudged cross on her head, recall that our mortality is joined to hers forever in Christ, and remember that together we share the joy of life with all of God’s world.
In-person attendance is welcome for vaccinated individuals, and masks are required at all times. For those not attending in person, the Ash Wednesday Liturgy will be livestreamed on our streaming page and the LCH Facebook page.
Brianna Lloyd will be ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament and installed as associate pastor at Lutheran Church of Honolulu on Sunday, February 20, at 5:00 pm. Bishop Andy Taylor of the Pacifica Synod will preside, and Sister Joan Mitchell, a sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet (CSJ), whose community supported and funded Bree’s divinity schooling, will preach.
After many months of online worship only, we are delighted to announce LCH will return to in-person worship beginning February 13th! Please join us in person and online at 10:00 am. Those worshiping in person will need to provide proof of vaccination or a negative covid test within 72 hours, wear a mask while on campus, and practice social distancing.
The First Mondays Concert Series continues with a program of Renaissance Polyphony by the Italian master Palestrina and his student Allegri. Scott Fikse conducts a chamber choir composed of members of the LCH Choir and guests as they perform motets, madrigals, and Palestrina’s heavenly Missa Aeterna Christi Munera.
We warmly invite all people in all places of faith and life to Compline. Offered on the first and third Sunday of each month, this beautiful candle-lit service is a meditative experience. Join us for a 30-minute meditative time of prayer and reflection by candlelight. A cappella singing and chanting are led by the LCH Men’s Schola with John Bickel presiding.
All are welcome to participate in our monthly “Bach and Prayer.” Join us for this quiet prayer service on Wednesday evening, January 26. Bach and Prayer offers a time for silent prayer and meditation interspersed with contemplative organ works by J. S. Bach and his family.
The small but mighty LCH garden is reviving! For anyone who has garden ideas or who has interest in planning this year’s garden, let Pastor Bree know at 
Join us for a livestream concert featuring the wildly talented baritone Jacob Scharfman. Mr. Scharfman is a classically-trained American baritone performing opera, concert, and song repertoire. He won First Place in the 2021 National Opera Association Competition. Mr. Scharfman sang the 2019–20 season in the Opéra national du Rhin Studio, following his European début in the 2018–19 Salzburger Landestheater Studio. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the Merola Opera Program, he won the Oratorio-Lied Prize at the 2019 Viñas Contest in Barcelona and was a National Semi-Finalist in the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Mr. Scharfman has prepared a concert for our audience featuring the works of Mozart, Ravel, Bach, Tchaikovsky, and others. Suggested donation, $20.
While we were all looking forward to celebrating a blessed Christmas season in the Nave as an in-person community, the rising covid positivity rate in Hawai‘i has caused us to rethink these plans. In the interest of safety, we’ve modified our Christmastide services as outlined below.