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Native Hawaiian missionary family, c. 1878. David Malo (1793–1853), historian, built Kilolani Church; Henry Opukahaia, who traveled via China to New England and inspired ABCFM; James Kekela, first ordained Hawaiian Protestant minister; Bartimeus Lalana Puaʻaiki, first Hawaiian licensed to preach
Portrait of Hiram and Sybil Moseley Bingham, by Samuel Morse, 1819. Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I (October 30, 1789 – November 11, 1869), was the leader of the first group of American Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian Islands.
This group formed the basis of the Sandwich Islands Mission. [8] The church's first congregation in Hawaii was established on the island of Maui in 1851. [9] Among the early converts of Cannon were three prominent native Hawaiians: Napela, Uaua and Kaleohano who would later serve as prominent missionaries and leaders in the LDS Church. [10]
It was the third church established in Hawaii by missionaries inspired by Opukahaʻia. Hawaii's churches observe the third Sunday in February as a day of commemoration in honor of its first Christian. A plaque at the Cornwall gravesite reads: "In July of 1993, the family of Henry Opukahaia took him home to Hawaii for interment at Kahikolu ...
Thomas Holman (November 16, 1793 – November 20, 1826) was an American doctor and Protestant missionary, and the first missionary physician to the Kingdom of Hawaii.He worked as a missionary from 1819 until 1821, when he returned to Boston with his wife, Lucia Ruggles Holman, and their daughter, Lucia Kamāmalu Holman.
The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives in Honolulu, Hawaii, was established in 1920 by the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, a private, non-profit organization and genealogical society, on the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Christian missionaries in Hawaiʻi.
Asa Thurston (October 12, 1787 – March 11, 1868) was a Protestant missionary from the United States who was part of the first company of American Christian missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands with his wife Lucy Goodale Thurston.
Dwight Baldwin (September 29, 1798 – January 3, 1886) [1] was an American Christian missionary and medical doctor on Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands, during the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was patriarch of a family that founded some of the largest businesses in the islands.