1971-1989
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 executive board reports normally include budgets, calendars of activities, Cooperative Program information, digests of church letters, executive board recommendations, executive secretary-treasurer’s reports, and division and department reports. Reports from the Hawaii Baptist newspaper, Puu Kahea Baptist Assembly, and wills and endowments are also included. The annuals are any word searchable.
