Service Notes

  • Hawaii Betsuin offers in-person services and the English-language service is also available online via Zoom (see Zoom connection details). Please join us!
  • The English-language service is typically offered at 9:30 a.m.
  • Refreshments are offered after services in our Social Hall.
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June 2026 Services

June 21: Father’s Day Service

  • Rev. Ryoso Toshima8:00 a.m Japanese-language service with Rev. Ryoso Toshima (in person)
  • Rev. Hasebe in robes outside hondo at Bon Dance 2018 (square thumbnail image)9:30 a.m. English-language service with Rimban Yuika Hasebe
    (In person and via Zoom, see Zoom connection details. )

June 28: NO SERVICE

The temple sangha will be resting after Bon Dance!

 

Prior Services

June 7

  • Rev. Shingo Furusawa8:00 a.m Japanese-language service with Rev. Shingo Furusawa (in person)
  • Rev. Charlene Kihara9:30 a.m. English-language service with Rev. Charlene Kihara

    Message: “Returning Home: Obon, Anime, and the Light of Compassion”

    (In person and via Zoom, see Zoom connection details.)

June 14: Juneteenth Service

General order No. 3 of June 19, 1865 - Juneteenth - full image at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

  • Rev. Hasebe in robes outside hondo at Bon Dance 2018 (square thumbnail image)8:00 a.m Japanese-language service with Rimban Yuika Hasebe (in person)
  • 9:30 a.m. English-language service with guest speakers Alice Talbott and Ed Young
    (In person and via Zoom, see Zoom connection details.)

    Ms. Alice TalbottAlice Talbott is a retired psychiatric nurse whose life has been shaped by a commitment to civil rights, community service, and spiritual inquiry. Born in Pittsburgh in 1942, she experienced school integration firsthand in Washington, D.C., following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Over the years, she helped integrate the Elks Club in Santa Maria, California, and later worked to secure recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day as an official holiday in Hawaiʻi. Raised in the Baptist tradition, Alice has explored Hinduism and Buddhism and, since settling in Honolulu, has embraced the Quaker faith.

    Ed YoungEd Young is a retired meteorologist and former Deputy Regional Director of NOAA’s National Weather Service Pacific Region. Ed’s father was raised by a formerly enslaved person born in 1855 in South Carolina. Ed’s mother grew up working in a restaurant listed in the Green Book. Ed is a longtime resident of Hawaiʻi and is active in both the African American community and the Bahá’í community, where he has contributed to interfaith dialogue and community-building efforts.

  • Rev. Hasebe in robes outside hondo at Bon Dance 2018 (square thumbnail image)1:00 p.m. Afternoon service with Rimban Yuika Hasebe and Dr. Dexter Mar (in person)