* GIVING @ WCC (Every Penny Helps)
1) Cash/check use a Yay God Box OR Mail:
PO Box 383382 ~ Waikoloa, HI 96738
2) A one-time gift.
3) A recurring gift.
* WAIKOLOA COMMUNITY CHURCH
E Komo Mai! (Welcome!)
Aloha, we’re so glad you are here! WCC wants to make a lasting difference in your life, in our community, and in the world. How do we do that? We do that by helping people find Common Ground and leading people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. Want to know more? Explore this website and fill out a connect card with any questions you have. Feel free to call on me with any questions you might have. ~ Pastor Greg
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* WHAT TO EXPECT IN WORSHIP
Welcome & Opening Worship Set
Meet & Greet and Announcements
Life Application Message
Closing Song
Blessing/Benediction
* Communion is usually celebrated on the first Sunday of the month.
Let’s go deeper: Take the PLUNGE!
Whether you’re grabbing lunch with friends, at a coffee shop, at the dinner table with your family, in your Aloha Group, or online, “PLUNGE” into the message. Scroll down to find this weeks “Message Notes” & “PLUNGE” discussion questions. Available in English and Espanol.
* SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Sundays @ 9:15am – Common Grounds Cafe
Sundays @ 9:30am – Adult Worship Experience & Aloha Riders Kids Church
Sundays @ 10:45am – Common Grounds Cafe
* PLUG-IN
Do you want to know God better and become who He’s created you to be?
Here are some places to start:
~ Aloha Groups: This is how we “DO LIFE TOGETHER.” Aloha Groups are the friends and ‘ohana (family) you laugh, grow, and serve with. Each Aloha Group at WCC is different, yet all are focused on growing better together! Let us help you find an Aloha Group that’s right for you. For more info about Aloha Groups, contact Annette at WaikoloaCC@gmail.com.
~ Serve With Us: You can make a big difference in someone’s life by serving on one of our Strategic Service Teams. To get started, select an area of ministry where you’d like to serve and contact the church by emailing WaikoloaCC@gmail.com.
~ Explore Your Purpose: Each of us has a unique purpose that is solely ours to fulfill. Uncover yours by participating in one of our Exploration Seminars.
* FOR YOUR FAMILY
We believe strong families start with a solid foundation. We endeavor to partner with parents to raise the next generation of fully devoted followers of Christ.
~ Aloha Riders Kids Ministry: Your kids are invited to join an experience designed just for them! Kids Church occurs, at the same time as our Adult Worship Experience in our Multi-Purpose Building.
Our Dolphin, Whale, and Surf Riders meet in our Surf/Whale Riders Room in our Multi-Purpose Building each Sunday for our one-room Kids Church for ages 4 through 5th grade.
Our Honu Riders Nursery is for toddlers, 2s, and 3s. The Honu Riders Room is located in our Multi-Purpose Building. The Little Honu Riders Room in the Worship Center is for parents who wish to see and hear the service while caring for a young child.
~ Point Break Student Ministry: We would LOVE to offer a quality youth program for 6th-12th graders as well! We need some initial volunteers to help make that happen and some interested youth to participate. Let us know of any interest and we’ll make it happen as soon as possible.
* CAMPUS NEWS
~ WCC Giving Tree – We partner with the Big Island Giving Tree to provide toiletry items to help the houseless on our island. For the second quarter of the year we are collecting disposable razors and travel sized shaving cream. Place in the basket of the CARE CORNER in the lobby.
* CONTACT INFO
Waikoloa Community Church
808.883.8944 ~ WaikoloaCC@gmail.com
Physical Address: (No Mail) 68-3621 Paniolo Avenue, Waikoloa
Mailing Address: PO Box 383382, Waikoloa, HI 96738
www.WaikoloaCC.org
* MESSAGE NOTES ~ June 1, 2025
JUST JESUS: A Journey Through Mark ~ Part 7
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” ~ Mark 2:18 (NASB 1995)
And Jesus said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.” ~ Mark 2:19 (NASB 1995)
HO NYMPHIOS – GREEK ~ the bridegroom
For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the Lord of Hosts… ~ Isaiah 54:5a (NASB 1995)
I will betroth you to Me forever… Hosea 2:19a (NASB 1995)
…although I was a husband to them… ~ Jeremiah 31:32b (NASB 1995)
HOI HUIOI TOU NYMPHŌNOS – GREEK ~ the sons of the bridal chamber
BENE HA-CHUPPAH – HEBREW ~ the sons of the canopy
But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. ~ Mark 2:20 (NASB 1995)
APARTHĒ – GREEK ~ to be taken away, removed, snatched away violently or suddenly
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it—the new from the old—and a worse tear results. ~ Mark 2:21 (NASB 1995)
Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. ~ Matthew 5:17 (NASB1995)
No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.” ~ Mark 2:22 (NASB 1995)
ASKOI – GREEK ~ wineskins
PALAIOUS ASKOUS – GREEK ~ old wineskins
RHEXEI – GREEK ~ burst, violent tearing
KAINOUS ASKOUS – GREEK ~ fresh wineskins
And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. ~ Mark 2:23 (NASB 1995)
When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain. ~ Deuteronomy 23:25 (NASB1995)
The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath” ~ Mark 2:24 (NASB1995)
ELEGON – GREEK ~ they were saying
SHABBAT – HEBREW ~ Sabbath
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ~ Exodus 20:8 (NASB 1995)
TILLONTES – GREEK ~ from the verb tillō, meaning to pluck, to pick off, to gather with the fingers
HA OUK EXESTIN – GREEK ~ It is not permitted
And He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” ~ Mark 2:25-26 (NASB1995)
KAI LEGEI AUTOIS – GREEK ~ and He said to them
OUDEPOTE ANEGNŌTE – GREEK ~ A rhetorical question. “Have you never read?”
Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” ~ Mark 2:27 (NASB 1995)
So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. ~ Mark 2:28 (NASB1995)
HŌSTE – GREEK ~ so – a connector word that draws a powerful conclusion from the previous verse like “therefore…” or “so then…”