1. How Christianity Came to Hawaii
Dr. Mike Palompo

2. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii
Henry Opukaha`ia

3. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii
“You are to aim at nothing short of covering those islands with fruitful fields and pleasant dwellings, and schools and churches, of raising up the whole people to an elevated state of Christian civilization.”
(ABCFM Charge to Hawaii Missionaries)

4. Revival v. Revivalism
“I do not desire, I do not advise a bustling, artificial effort to get up a revival, nor the construction of any man-devised machinery…I want God’s work, not man’s…I want no revivalist preachers.”
John Angell James, Discourses Addressed to the Churches, London, 1861, pp , 551

5. Revival v. Revivalism
“I would affirm that much of the modern approach to evangelism, with its techniques and methods, is unnecessary if we really believe in the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.”
D. M. Lloyd-Jones, Conversions: Psychological and Spiritual: Knowing the Times, (Banner of Truth), 1989, pp

6. Revival v. Revivalism
“You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38)

7. Revival v. Revivalism
“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers” (2 Cor. 4:4).

8. Revival v. Revivalism Spiritual Warfare
Taking back from the devil what rightfully belongs to God
Transformation through the Trinity

9. Revival v. Revivalism Danny Yamashiro:
“Any attempt at evangelism is 100% successful (even if you don’t get to close the deal).

10. Mike & Mona
Park Street Church - Boston

11. Rev. Sereno Edwards Dwight
Second Pastor of Park St. Church
From 1817 – 1826
5th son of Timothy Dwight
President of Yale College
Chaplain of US Senate

12. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii

14. A journey of about 17,000 miles!

15. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii
Queen Kapi`olani
Mt. Kilauea – Dec. 1824

16. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii
Titus Coan
Haili Church - Hilo

17. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii
Titus Coan’s Grave Site
200 yards from Haili Church

18. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii
Titus Coan’s Grave Site
200 yards from Haili Church

19. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii

20. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii

21. Haili Church - Interior

22. Haili Church - Interior

23. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii
Ua mau ke ea o ka `aina i ka pono
“The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness”
1843
HISTORY OF HAWAII STATE MOTTO
Hawaii annexed by British Lord George Paulet under the guns of the warship HMS Carysfort – Feb 10, 1843
Dr. Gerrit P. Judd protests to Britain
Rear Adm. Richard Darton Thomas (Paulet’s superior officer) repudiates Paulet’s actions) – July 31, 1843
Kauikeaouli utters the motto for the first time on the steps of Kawaiaha`o Church.
King Kamehameha III
Kauikeaouli

24. God’s Kingdom of Hawaii
JUBILEE CELEBRATION
Kawaiaha`o Church
SUMMARY OF RESULTS
100,000 of 120,000 population become Christian
Upward from 75% literacy rate (higher than the US at that time, second highest in the world next to Scotland)
Monarchy evangelized
Education, Commerce, & Government established
Hawaiian written language, Hawaiian translation of the Bible
Jubilee celebration at Kawaiaha`o Church 1870: “Mission Accomplished”

25. How Christianity Came to Hawaii
Dr. Mike Palompo