Welcome to the First United Methodist Church of Honolulu.
Due to the Coronavirus, we are
ONLINE ONLY for Sunday worship services:
English at 10 a.m – Tongan at 11:00 a.m.
facebook.com/firstumchonolulu
The latest English worship videos are below.
Previous Tongan worship videos (and English worship with live prayers)
are on our facebook page: facebook.com/firstumchonolulu
Click here for more details on online worship.
For archives of worship services, see below or for more, click HERE.
For archives of the Wednesday Check-In, see below or for more, click HERE.
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Wednesday Check-In for November 25, 2020
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Sunday worship for November 22, 2020
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Wednesday Check-In for November 18, 2020
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Sunday Worship for November 15, 2020 – Lavinia “Nia” Taukolo, Pastoral Intern, Preaching
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Wednesday Check-In for November 11, 2020
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Sunday Worship for November 8. 2020
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Wednesday Check-In for November 4, 2020
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Sunday Worship for November 1, 2020
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Wednesday Check-In for October 28, 2020 – “Broken Refrigerator Blessing”
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Sunday Worship for October 25, 2020 – “Seismic Shifts and Being An ‘Assumptionist'”
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Wednesday Check-In for October 21, 2020 – “Are You Carrying Heavy Burdens?”
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Sunday Worship for October 18, 2020 – Kim Houff Preaching on the Serenity Prayer
Wednesday Check-In for October 14, 2020
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Sunday Worship, October 11. 2020 – Ministry in the 21st Century
(individual Sermon Videos below)
Sermon, Part 1 – Ministry for the 21st Century
Sermon, Part 2 – Who are the Ministers?
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Wednesday Check-In – October 7, 2020
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Sunday Worship – 10-4-2020 – “Making Bread – The Ingredients of Faith”
Individual clips from the service below
Praise Song – “Here I Am to Worship” by the Pancakes and Praise Band
Sermon, Part One – “Making Bread – The Ingredients of Faith”
Sermon, Part Two – “Bread for the World”
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Wednesday Check-In – September 30, 2020
Sunday Worship, September 27, 2020
See below for excerpts.
Sermon, Part 1 – “Hansen’s Disease – The Coronavirus of Jesus’ Time”
Sermon Part 2 – “Be Not Afraid”
Praise Song: “Stand By Me,” cover version by the Pancakes and Praise Band.
ZEEBUG VIDEO – “Faith Like the Wind”
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Wednesday Check-In for September 23, 2020
The Rev. Jim Lawson – Giant of Justice
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Sunday Worship for September 20, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmEdBt_TZ8&feature=youtu.be
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Wednesday Check-In for September 16, 2020
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Sunday Worship for September 13, 2020
Sermon Part 1 – “The Sacred Breath and the Defiled Breath”
Sermon Part 2 – Includes the Houff Family Interview
Wednesday Check-In for September 9, 2020
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Sunday Worship for September 6, 2020
New DS Rev. Moonyoung Lee preaching – “Joy of the Lord”
See below for excerpts
DS Moonyoung Lee’s sermon – “Joy in the Lord”
Message for All Generations by Pastor Tom Choi – “Peanuts and Coke”
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Wednesday Check-In for September 2, 2020 – The Legal Clinic
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Worship Service for August 30, 2020
Excerpts of the service are below this video
Sermon by Pastor Tom Choi: “Introduction to the Book of John”
Youth Panel on Gospel Discipleship
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Wednesday Check-In for August 26, 2020
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Sunday Worship for 8-23-2020 – Gospel Discipleship – Luke
See below for excerpts
ZEEBUG IN ZEELAND – Latest Video
Sermon, Part One – Introduction to the Book of Luke by Pastor Tom Choi
Sermon, Part Two – The Lukan Discipleship Pathway by Kim Houff
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Wednesday Check-In for August 19, 2020
Worship for Sunday, August 16, 2020 – Gospel Discipleship – Matthew
See below for excerpts
Message for All Generations: “Walking on Water and Eggshells”
Sermon, Part One: Introduction to the Book of Matthew
Sermon, Part Two: The Matthean Discipleship Profile
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Wednesday Check-In for August 12, 2020 –
“We Have Seen the Enemy and the Enemy Is Us”
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Sunday Worship, August 9, 2020
Individual and past clips below
Sermon for August 9, 2020 – “Gospel Discipleship – Mark”
Reflection on Nagasaki/Hiroshima
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Wednesday Check-In for August 5, 2020: The Architecture of First UMC Honolulu
Sunday Worship – August 2, 2020
see below for excerpts from the service
Sermon from the August 2, 2020 worship service:
Link to the Gospel Discipleship Assessment
https://www.ministrymatters.com/gospeldiscipleship
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Wednesday Check-In – July 29, 2020
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Sunday Worship – July 26, 2020
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Wednesday Check-In for July 22, 2020
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Sunday Worship for July 19, 2020 – Kim Houff, preaching
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Wednesday Check In for July 15, 2020
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Aloha Greeting from our new DS, Rev. Moonyoung Lee:
Worship Service for July 12, 2020
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Wednesday Check-In for July 8, 2020 – “Should Confederate Statues Be Taken Down?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szYr6N4h9Hs&feature=youtu.be&t=1s
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Sunday Worship for July 5, 2020
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Wednesday Check-In for July 1, 2020
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Sunday morning worship for June 28, 2020
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Wednesday Check-In for June 24, 2020 – Does God Protect Us from the Coronavirus?
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Sunday Worship Video
Full Worship for 6-21-2020 (without live prayers –
see our Facebook page link above for the service that includes prayers.
ZEEBUG Father’s Day Video
Pastor Tom’s Father’s Day Sermon Part 1
Pastor Tom’s Father’s Day Sermon Part 2
Wednesday Check=In for 6-17-2020
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Sunday Worship – 6-14-2020 featuring Professor Jack Jackson
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Wednesday Check-In for June 10, 2020
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Full Sunday Worship for June 7, 2020
Individual clips after.
The Main Sermon: “Finding the Human in Others…and Me”
Clip of Pastor Tom’s Message to the President of the United States
Full Clip of a Few Thoughts on Recent Events
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Wednesday Check-In for June 3, 2020
Pastor Tom’s profiles the kind of leadership we need.
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Sunday Worship – 5-31-2020 full worship
Individual videos below
Just the ZeeBug Video:
Hula by Marina Choi:
Sermon by Pastor Tom Choi addressing the death of George Floyd
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Wednesday Check-In for May 27, 2020
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May 24, 2020 – Full Sunday Worship Service just below.
Scroll down for individual clips
Sermon for 5-24-2020 – Part One
Sermon for 5-24-2020 – Part Two
Sermon for 5-24-2020 – Part Three
Message for All Generations – 5-24-2020 – Bobblehead
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Wednesday Check-In for May 20, 2020
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Sunday worship, May 17, 2020
Special service led by Bishop Grant Hagiya and leaders of our annual conference as a “Sabbath” for our churches who have been producing online worship.
Wednesday Check-In for May 13, 2020
Sunday Worship – 5-10-2020 – Happy Mothers Day!
The full Mothers Day service is just below; scroll down for individual clips:
“Melia” written by Josh Totofi (used with permission)
and sung by Stephen Harris and danced by Marina Choi:
The Sermon, Part One:
The Sermon, Part 2:
Wednesday Check-In for May 6, 2020
Click here for previous worship services and other content.
Or most are below:
SUNDAY WORSHIP – May 3, 2020
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Wednesday Check-In April 29, 2020
Sunday Worship: April 26, 2020
The Wednesday Check-In is below
The April 19, 2020 worship service is HERE and below:
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