First Mondays: An Enchanted Evening of Music for Flute and Harp • Mon., Apr. 3, at 7:00 pm

concert graphicJulia Richter and Connie Uejio present a program of beautiful music for flute and harp, featuring works by Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Bizet, and many more. Julia and Connie are both active performers in the Honolulu area; both playing with the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra, and Julia recently joined the Royal Hawaiian Band. This is an evening not to be missed.

All are invited to gather for pūpū in the Hörmann Courtyard and 6:15 pm. The Concert is free, with a suggested donation $20. As a courtesy to others, please wear a face mask inside the church.

Through the generous sponsorship of the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation and support from other individual supporters, this concert is free. Additional donations to support this concert and the entire series are gladly accepted online (details below) or at the concert.

First Mondays 2022–2023 Concert Series





Help Make “First Mondays” a Success by Becoming a Sponsor

Your tax-deductible donations make it possible for us to offer these free concerts to the community. Please consider a donation by sending a check (payable to “Lutheran Church of Honolulu”) to the church at 1730 Punahou Street, Honolulu HI 96822 or using the button to the right to make a secure donation via PayPal. Mahalo for your support.

Holy Week and Easter Worship at LCH

Celebrating the Cross and Resurrection
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu


Christ showing wounds

PALM SUNDAY   †   Sunday, April 2

10:00 am

PROCESSION WITH PALMS AND HOLY COMMUNION

The service moves from the commemoration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem to the reading of the story of Jesus’ passion and death in the Gospel according to St. Matthew. Music by Franz Schubert and Johann Sebastian Bach accompanies the service. List of music for this service

7:30 pm

PALM SUNDAY COMPLINE

Contemplative Palm Sunday meditation offered by the LCH Men’s Schola. Candlelight illuminates the Nave for this short service of prayer, chant, and a cappella singing. List of music for this service


robe and wash basin for Maundy liturgy

MAUNDY THURSDAY   †   Thursday, April 6

7:30 pm

CHORAL EUCHARIST AND MAUNDY LITURGY

We remember Jesus’ command to “love one another” as we wash feet and share communion. Music includes a unique piano motet by Gjeilo, traditional antiphons, and a Gospel acclamation by Hurd. List of music for this service


crown of thorns

GOOD FRIDAY   †   Friday, April 7

7:30 pm

GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY AND ADORATION OF THE CRUCIFIED

This powerful service recalls the bitter suffering and death of Jesus that will lead to new life. John Rutter’s Requiem will bring the story to life. List of music for this service


empty cross and Paschal candle

EASTER EVE   †   Saturday, April 8

7:30 pm

EASTER VIGIL AND SOLEMN CHORAL EUCHARIST

Following the service of readings and the kindling of the New Fire, we move from darkness into the light of resurrection. The resurrection will be welcomed with Will Todd’s Jazz Missa Brevis, traditional Easter hymns, and the first Eucharist of Easter. List of music for this service


Chi Rho and empty tomb

EASTER SUNDAY   †   Sunday, April 9

10:00 am

FESTIVAL CHORAL EUCHARIST

Christ is risen! Our festival choral service features the Hallelujah Chorus from The Mount of Olives by Ludwig van Beethoven and music by Gabrielli, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, and others. List of music for this service


The Reverend Jeff Lilley, Pastor   †   Bree Lloyd, Associate Pastor   †   Barry Wenger, Director of Music and Liturgy and Organist

First Mondays: Hooray for Bollywood! • Mon., March 6, at 7:00 pm

Bollywood graphicJoin us for our next First Mondays Concert, “Hooray for Bollywood!” which brings together the lush melodies and exotic rhythms of “Old is Gold” Bollywood hits arranged for string quartet! Join us as Helen Liu, Arlene Koh, Susan Leon, and Kathleen Long present this unique program.

First Monday Concerts are free, with a suggested donation $20. As a courtesy to others, please wear a face mask inside the church.

All are welcome join us at 6:00 pm for pūpū in the Hörmann Courtyard.

First Monday Concerts are free, with a suggested donation $20. As a courtesy to others, please wear a face mask inside the church. The concert will only be offered live; there will be no livestream.

Through the generous sponsorship of the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation and support from other individual supporters, this concert is free. Additional donations to support this concert and the entire series are gladly accepted online (details below) or at the concert.

First Mondays 2022–2023 Concert Series





Help Make “First Mondays” a Success by Becoming a Sponsor

Your tax-deductible donations make it possible for us to offer these free concerts to the community. Please consider a donation by sending a check (payable to “Lutheran Church of Honolulu”) to the church at 1730 Punahou Street, Honolulu HI 96822 or using the button to the right to make a secure donation via PayPal. Mahalo for your support.

Lenten Suppers and Worship • Wednesdays in March at 6:00 pm

soup graphicLenten Soup and Salad Suppers

Wednesdays, March 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, at 6:00 pm • in the Hörmann Courtyard

Please join in this wonderful time of fellowship and prayer, beginning each Wednesday of Lent with a simple soup and salad supper. Suppers are served at 6:00 pm, prior to 7:00 pm Lenten services in the Nave. A sign-up sheet will be available in the courtyard for contributions to each week’s meal and for help with set-up and clean-up. See Mary Jo Estes or call the LCH office for more information.

Lenten Wednesdays: Healing a Broken World

Lenten Vespers graphicJoin us mid-week during Lent as we share Holden Evening Prayer. The sung prayer service begins at 7:00 pm in the Nave. This year’s Lenten theme will follow the Stewardship theme for the year: Healing a Broken World. Each week will have a focus on this theme. The schedule is:

  • March1: Loneliness
  • March 8: Injustice
  • March 15: Violence
  • March 22: Hopelessness, Despair
  • March 29: Dis-ease

All are welcomed and encouraged to share this intimate prayer service and supper with us as we journey, in brokenness and healing, through the Lenten season. For those not able to attend in person, Holden Evening Pray Compline will be livestreamed on our Worship Services page and the LCH Facebook page.

Ash Wednesday Worship + Wed., Feb. 22 + 7:30 pm

Ash Wednesday cross graphicThe 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.

First Mondays: Dr. Barry J. Wenger plays the von Beckerath • Mon., Feb. 6, at 7:00 pm

The von Beckerath organ, photo by Joey FalaJoin Dr. Barry J. Wenger at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, 1730 Punahou St., for the First Mondays Concert on February 6, at 7:00 pm. Dr. Wenger will present music over the centuries with pieces by J.S. Bach, Louis-Claude Daquin, W.A. Mozart, and contemporary composers including Craig Phillips, Eleanor Daley, and Aaron David Miller. Come enjoy a “tour” of organ music on the wonderful von Beckerath organ.

First Monday Concerts are free, with a suggested donation $20. As a courtesy to others, please wear a face mask inside the church. The concert will only be offered live; there will be no livestream.

Through the generous sponsorship of the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation and support from other individual supporters, this concert is free. Additional donations to support this concert and the entire series are gladly accepted online (details below) or at the concert.

First Mondays 2022–2023 Concert Series





Help Make “First Mondays” a Success by Becoming a Sponsor

Your tax-deductible donations make it possible for us to offer these free concerts to the community. Please consider a donation by sending a check (payable to “Lutheran Church of Honolulu”) to the church at 1730 Punahou Street, Honolulu HI 96822 or using the button to the right to make a secure donation via PayPal. Mahalo for your support.

First Mondays: An Evening of Music for Piano and Four Hands • Mon., Jan. 2, at 7:30 pm

Music for Piano and Four Hands graphicJoin us for an evening of four hands piano as we enjoy music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Ravel performed by pianists Dr. Thomas Yee and Dr. Tyler Flores Ramos.

Please note the change in time. The concert will begin at 7:30 pm.

First Monday Concerts are free, with a suggested donation $20. As a courtesy to others, please wear a face mask inside the church. The concert will only be offered live; there will be no livestream.

Through the generous sponsorship of the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation and support from other individual supporters, this concert is free. Additional donations to support this concert and the entire series are gladly accepted online (details below) or at the concert.

First Mondays 2022–2023 Concert Series





Help Make “First Mondays” a Success by Becoming a Sponsor

Your tax-deductible donations make it possible for us to offer these free concerts to the community. Please consider a donation by sending a check (payable to “Lutheran Church of Honolulu”) to the church at 1730 Punahou Street, Honolulu HI 96822 or using the button to the right to make a secure donation via PayPal. Mahalo for your support.

A Season of Celebration—Christmastide at LCH

Celebrating Christmas at LCH

Winter Solstice
Wednesday, December 21

7:30 pm • A Service of Grief and Remembrance
In-person only, no livestream

 
Christmas Eve
Saturday, December 24

5:00 pm • Family Worship

7:00 pm • Festival Prelude
featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria, rv 588

7:30 pm • Choral Eucharist
with music provided by the LCH Choir

Christmas Day
Sunday, December 25

10:00 am • Choral Eucharist
featuring the women of the LCH Choir
 

 
New Year’s Day

Sunday, January 1

10:00 am • Choral Eucharist
A Service of Lessons & Carols

7:30 am • Compline
featuring the LCH Men’s Schola

 
All are welcome to these services. In the spirit of mutual care, we encourage those attending in person to wear masks. All services,
except for the Blue Christmas worship, will also livestream on the LCH Facebook page and our Worship Services page.

First Mondays: A Holiday Horn Spectacular • Mon., Dec. 5, at 7:00 pm

Holiday Horn Spectacular graphicHorns go-a-caroling!!!! Join us for the Lutheran Church of Honoluluʻs First Mondays Chamber Concerts Horn Quartet performance. We will be getting festive with a variety of holiday tunes. Come ready to join in singing along with your favorite carol! To start spreading Holiday Cheer there will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes for the most-festively-dressed audience member.

Our artists for the evening are Marie Lickwar, Jamie Sanborn, Rory Onishi, and Colton Hironaka. They all believe in the words of Buddy the Elf, “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.”

First Monday Concerts are free, with a suggested donation $20. As a courtesy to others, please wear a face mask inside the church. The concert will only be offered live; there will be no livestream.

Through the generous sponsorship of the Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation and support from other individual supporters, this concert is free. Additional donations to support this concert and the entire series are gladly accepted online (details below) or at the concert.

First Mondays 2022–2023 Concert Series





Help Make “First Mondays” a Success by Becoming a Sponsor

Your tax-deductible donations make it possible for us to offer these free concerts to the community. Please consider a donation by sending a check (payable to “Lutheran Church of Honolulu”) to the church at 1730 Punahou Street, Honolulu HI 96822 or using the button to the right to make a secure donation via PayPal. Mahalo for your support.

48th Annual Advent Procession • Sun., Nov. 27, at 7:30 pm

advent graphicJoin us for Lutheran Church of Honolulu’s annual Advent Procession, a beloved Hawai‘i tradition since 1975. This year the service will be led by Barry Wenger, our new organist and director of music, and will include seasonal readings, hymns old and new, and glorious choral selections by the LCH Choir.

For those not attending in person, the concert will be livestreamed on our Worship Services page and the LCH Facebook page and then archived on the LCH Facebook page