Young Adult Retreat

This year's YA Retreat will be taking place at:

Camp Kokokahi in Kaneohe, Oahu

Please contact Jake Chang for more info on the Retreat. If you would like to attend here is the application

Thanks!

Finals and End of the Year party

The school year has finally winded to a close and summer is here. Finals week was rough on the students since quite a few of them were suffering through Spring Fever. We had a few students spend the night at the BSC during Tetsuya. On Thursday, I attempted to make fried rice, I suppose it turned out ok, although Wayde Toyama would say it was "Amazing!"We also watched an anime Summer Wars and played the board game settlers.

On Saturday, at UH Graduation Heather Omori and Lynn Nakagawa graduated. Congratulations to you both and good luck in all your future endeavors.

Saturday Night, we toasted to the end of the school year and to summer vacation. We would have toasted to the graduates, but neither of them came :(was more playing of the game settlers ( which may be played a YA Retreat, but I won't spoil that surprise yet).

There were also games of Monopoly, Scrabble, Risk, and umm...yeah....perhaps I won't finish.

Alex Shanklin, a representative at BDK Hawaii and student at UH Manoa will be starting at Ryukoku University in the Fall. During the Summer, he plans to travel and visit family. Since I don't know when I would see him next I took him to lunch at W&M BBQ Burger in Kaimuki. He really liked it and it was his first time there :) Best wishes to Alex at Ryukoku University and I hope I get the chance to see you again.

See you all in August or maybe sooner...:)

Spring Happenings!

Allyson Fujii & Ken Oyadomari Thanks for helping out at Bishop Matsumoto's induction Banquet!

Bishop & Mrs. Matsumoto singing "Triangle, Circle Square" gatha

Hey Everyone!

Above are pictures from Bishop Matsumoto's induction banquet on April 22nd. It was an interesting banquet to say the least, but it will be a good change to have Bishop Matsumoto as the new Bishop of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii.

There have been quite a bit of changes happening in the Hawaii Kyodan. One is that Rev. Takata & his family will be moving to Arizona and joining BCA. We're definitely going to miss them! Above was a picture from their farewell lunch from the Headquarters Staff along with the Okanos and the Yosemoris.

Tetsuya is happening now for UH Manoa and its fellow campuses, this year's one is very low key and kind of sad. Graduations are also occurring around the state this month. In case, I don't see you Congratulations on your graduation and best of luck in all your future endeavors!

The BSC is planning a lecture series for students in September, but there will be more information coming later on that.

I hope that you are doing well. Let me know if you have any big news for the blog!