1945-2000
Baptist work began in Hawaii in 1926 when Charles J. McDonald, a layman, started work in the town of Wahiawa, in Honolulu County on the island of Oahu, with a Sunday School which eventually became First Baptist Church of Wahiawa. On December 12, 1940, the Hawaiian Mission of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention was organized and the Wahiawa church became the first church to affiliate with the Mission. The Hawaii Baptist Convention formed in 1943.
The Convention’s annual normally includes the constitution and bylaws, Convention proceedings, directories, committee reports, financial statements, statistical reports, and Hawaii Baptist Convention Woman’s Missionary Union reports. Histories of Hawaii Baptist churches are sometimes included in the annuals. The 1945 annual includes minutes from the 1943, 1944, and 1945 annual meetings. The annuals are any word searchable.
