Peace Day 2013

I apologize that this post is a little late, but things have been crazy around here. Crazy is good for us.
We have been up to a lot of things lately, but this is the first chance that we have had to update the blog.

On Friday September 20, the Fellowship Club attended and participated in the Interfaith Alliance's Interfaith Peace Day service held at the Hawaii Betsuin. Dustin Iwasaki and Kaycie Moribe both in their roles as BSCFC members nad Jr. YBA Federation officers were the service MC's that night under Jake Chang's supervision of course.Megan Pascual sang with the Hawaii Betsuin choir and Brandi Yamamoto performed a song also.


-courtesy of Rev. Tomo Hojo

The next day several of us attend the Sadako Crane Exhibit Opening at the Historic Pacific Parks (Arizona Memorial in honor of Peace Day, September 21.

Hope that you are doing well and hopefully there will be more updates soon!

National Parks Founders Day

ahh... Sometimes things come together unexpectedly and amazingly!


On Saturday August 25th The Jr. YBA was invited to do a service project at the Arizona Memorial ( I think it's actually called Valley of the Pacific now?!?) The service project was to teach visitors how to fold origami paper cranes. The Center is trying to change its image from focusing on war to focusing on what happened and how we move to forgiveness and peace. We were also told that people often leave paper cranes at the Arizona Memorial in honor of people.


We had the nicest park ranger help out on this project. She was enthusiastic and really friendly. She even had got some paper crane earrings from the Made in Hawaii Festival from the week before. We taught people to fold paper cranes from 1-3p.m. that day and even though it did not seem that a lot of people came through we taught quite a few people to fold paper cranes including some of the employees that worked at the Center.

This project was really fun and the room where we were teaching people to fold paper cranes was really spacious and had a nice view of the harbor. Hopefully we'll have the opportunity to do this again in the future.

Folding paper cranes and catching up with each other :)

Teaching people to fold paper cranes. Everyone who folded paper cranes that day had the option to keep the paper cranes they had as a memory of their visit.

Paper cranes all mingling together