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Empowering Neighbors

THE KALEIDOSCOPE MOVEMENT

Bringing diverse human lights together to collectively create new patterns of light that impact our community with positive change.
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Kaleidoscope Honolulu

An Outreach of First Christian Church DOC of Honolulu

  • Forming small communities out of the needs and interests of our neighbors
  • Addressing needs and social injustices with our neighbors
  • Partnering/collaborating together to help one another thrive
    Creating small, urban communities because:
    Everyone's light matters~
    We shine brighter together~
    Shaping patterns of human light to impact positive change in our neighborhood and city
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What's New?

Cultivating a New Community

Pre-Schoolers & Moms

FREE

Ike Loa Wednesdays

9:30-10:30

Imaginative Play & Discovery Through Nature's Lens Using the foundational concepts of Tinker Garten acquired by Highlights for Children

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Ike Loa Wednesdays

for Pre-School Children and Wellness Support for Moms

GROWING IMAGINATION THROUGH NATURE

9:30-10:30AM FREE

Begins June 25, 2025

Preschool Ages 3-5yrs

Expanding the pre-schooler's imagination through the lens of nature as children experience wonder in outdoor learning, music, and creativity!

Must be toilet trained

Parents must stay with their child.

Ike Loa Wednesdays will follow the holidays and breaks of the HI public school calendar.

The most incredible adventures are often ones created in the minds of children.

Exploring Wonder Through Nature

Expanding Creativity in Art

Experiencing Imaginative Play Through Music & Movement

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a close up of a flower on a plant
mixed paints in a plate
mixed paints in a plate
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selective focus photography of bubbles
blue, white, orange, and red abstract painting

Summer Creative Arts Camp

Grades K-5th Tuesday 10:30-11:30

FREE! June 24, July 1, 8, 15
Process Art Experiences for Building Creativity
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a group of children's handprints hanging from a clothes line

Communities We Are Focusing On Now

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green plants on soil
OUR Community Garden
Growing a Gardening Community

OUR FREE Community Garden is part of our grassroots Kaleidoscope Honolulu in our urban neighborhood. We anticipate so much "harvest" from it-including more food security and relationship building with our seniors, families, and youth living in high-rise homes around us, but it's much more than that!

Kaleidoscope Honolulu is an outreach of First Christian Church of Honolulu (DOC), and the community garden is located on the campus at: 1516 Kewalo St Honolulu, HI 96822

Raised gardening beds, with trellis, are 42 X 24 and about waist high. Bed/Dirt/Water are provided. Our raised beds are the "seeds" of a Gardening Community for our neighborhood...where gardeners can:
  • Grow vegetables and herbs

  • Gather to talk story-meet friends old and new

  • Learn about gardening as other gardeners/master gardeners share what they've learned

  • Nurture food health and wellness through special events,
    trade plants and seeds, and more!

Think of it as the beginning of a big gardening family! We have special gardening speakers/events on Wednesdays from 10:30-12:30, and we will have some special gardening events/speakers on Saturdays TBA.

153 Cafe

Famous Hibiscus Tea & Spice Cake

An outdoor gathering space for our gardening community and neighbors in our backyard green space.

Featuring our famous Hibiscus Tea and Spice Cake! Delicious to sip and talk story with friends.

Wednesdays 10:30-12:30. Proceeds to Kaleidoscope Movement

Located @FCC of Honolulu 1516 Kewalo St Honolulu, HI 96822

Bringing Lights Together

153 Marketplace

Building an Artisan & Entrepreneurial Community

It's FREE! You are invited to the Maker's Room to create each Wednesday 12:30-1:30 (after 153 Cafe)

Putting Steps in Place to Build Your Kaleidoscope of Imagination & Entrepreneurial Skills

Defining and Creating Artisan Product(s), Natural Products, Talents, or Services To Build A Small Entrepreneurial Business

CREATE something you love! Express yourself! Meet new friends! Calm from the chaos! Each Wednesday 12:30-1:30

white blue and yellow floral textile
white blue and yellow floral textile
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tailoring shears next to spool of brown rope
person making wreath
person making wreath
white ceramic plate with paint brushes and paint brushes
white ceramic plate with paint brushes and paint brushes

Our Partners Grant Support 

National Benevolent Association

Christian Church Disciples of Christ

We are thankful for our Grant Partner, National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ. whose generous grant has made it possible to begin the grass roots movement Kaleidoscope Honolulu

Wondering why it's called 153 Cafe & Marketplace? It arose in our Small Worship Community from the scripture text: John 21
Just imagine the impact if we create 153 small communities- of all different kinds- that might bring all our unique lights together, creating new patterns of light that impact our urban neighborhood, and the lives of all ages and cultures, for the better!