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It has become an international church with eight districts (synod or diocese) outside Samoa: one in the United States, one in Hawaii, three in Australia and three in New Zealand. It has one congregation in Fiji and American Samoa. In the Independent state of Samoa alone the CCCS membership is over 150,000.
The congregations in American Samoa were under the jurisdiction of the LMS Head Office in Malua, Samoa. [2] In a significant development in 1962, the LMS Samoan Church, referred to as the Lotu Ta'iti in Samoa (Tahitian Church), officially adopted its new name: Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (EFKS). [3]
The Reformed Congregational LMS Samoan Church (Samoan: Ekalesia LMS Toefuata'ina Samoa) is a global Christian Denomination based in Samoa, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America. It traces its origins to Protestant and Congregationalist doctrines, while its core is firmly grounded in the Samoan language, culture, and tradition ...
Today Malua is where all activities for the Congregational Christian Church in Samoa are centred, especially its General Assembly held annually in May. [ 4 ] A prominent Samoan who attended Malua Theological College was historian Teo Tuvale whose father, a pastor at Faleasi'u village, had been one of the first students to study at the seminary ...
The village is predominantly Christian and has only one established and recognized denomination, being the Ekalesia Faapotopotoga Kerisiano o Samoa (CCCS). The church was founded in 1843 by the LMS Missionary Rev. George Turner and the people of Vaiee Safata, the same Rev. Turner who went on to establish and run the Malua Theological College.
Pesega Samoa Stake: 22 Jan 1995 Savaii Samoa Fagamalo Stake: 4 Dec 1995 Savaii Samoa Pu'apu'a Stake: 18 Mar 2012 Savaii Samoa Sagone Stake: 10 Sep 1995 Savaii Samoa South Stake: 17 Oct 1982 Savaii Samoa Stake: 8 Jan 1971 Savaii Samoa West Stake: 3 Jun 1973 Upolu Samoa Aleisa Stake: 5 Aug 1979 Upolu Samoa East Stake: 23 Oct 1977 Upolu Samoa ...
John Williams arrived in Samoa in 1830, among his crew, a Samoan couple, Fauea and his wife Puaseisei, who joined them on their voyage and proved pivotal in the mission in Samoa. They set foot on the island of Savaii at Puaseisei's village of Safune, before arriving at Sapapalii on the 24th of August, 1830, to meet with Malietoa Vaiinuupo who ...
Many American Samoans and other Americans who interact with the Samoan Islands still refer to Samoa informally as "Western Samoa," and to its inhabitants as "Western Samoans." Today American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the US, under the administration of the US Interior Department's Office of Insular Affairs.