The Rev. Titus Coan or Father Koana as he was known by his church members at Haili Church in Hilo, had a long and wonder-filled ministry beginning in 1835, leading what was once known as the largest church in the world with over 20,000 members. While much has been...
The Queen Regent Kaahumanu (Kuhina Nui),[1] the last wife of Kamehameha I,[2] was a primary force for Christianity in the Hawaiian Islands in the first half of the nineteenth century, which helped set the stage for the Great Hawaiian Revival, the growth of Protestant...
The Rev. Davida Malo (1795-1853) was one of the earliest Hawaiian converts and ordained protestant ministers of the 1830’s who subsequently became a primary Hawaiian author and historian, whose book Moolelo Hawaii has been a resource in the study of Hawaiian culture...
Starting in the 1820s, Moku’aikaua Church in Kailua-Kona is recognized as the first and oldest Christian church in Hawaii and today “its high steeple stands out conspicuously and has become a landmark from both land and sea (Mokuʻaikaua Church | Images of Old...
John Honolii: Interpreter, teacher, gospel preacher, church planter, and soul winner). Just off High Street in Wailuku, Maui, next to Honolii Park, its namesake, John Honoli’i rests in the Kaahumanu Church cemetery. Honoli’i was one of the first Hawaiians to receive...
