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...
by Nicholas Freeman Many know the story of Chiefess Kapiolani’s December 1825, visit to the top of Kilauea: She challenged the priestess of the goddess Pele with the word of God. But there are other aspects of her amazing and eventful life that deserve to...
Introduction Batimea Puaaiki (Blind Bartimeus) was the second Protestant Christian to be baptized in the Hawaiian Kingdom and the first ordained Protestant minister. He was one of the first members, along with his wife, of the church at Lahaina, and preached the...
