MAUI EVANGELICAL CHURCH
Sunday Worship Service at 8:00 a.m.
1st Sunday - Worship with Communion
2nd Sunday - Worship (Testimonies)
3rd Sunday - Worship (Testimonies)
4th or 5th Sunday - Worship with Healing
(Coffee & Refreshments are being
provided after each Sunday service)
WEDNESDAYS
7:00 p.m. - Bible Study
(see monthly schedule)
PAIA HAWAIIAN PROTESTANT CHURCH
Sunday Worship at 11:00 a.m.
246 Hana Highway
P O Box 790540, Paia, HI 96779
Tel: 808-579-8900
Fax: 808-579-9679
Rev. Walter T. Baloaloa, Supply Kahu
A BRIEF HISTORY OF PAIA HAWAIIAN
PROTESTANT CHURCH
The Paia Hawaiian Protestant Church, organized in 1880 with 20 members, had an active membership of 17, plus six Sunday School students, at the end of 1969 - 88 years later. The church reached its peak in 1940, the annual report listing 259 members and 153 Sunday School students.
Establishment of the church was requested in a petition presented November 2, 1880, to the presbytery of Maui by W.P. Alexander.
Rev. J. P. Kuia was the first pastor, serving from 1880-1896. His successors were: Rev. John Kalino, 1897-1908; Rev. John Nua, 1900-1911; Reverend Moses M. Kahiapo, 1918-1958.
The Rev. Theodore Schultz was accepted as assistant Pastor, in behalf of the English-speaking congregation, December 1953. Rev. John Kukahiko, one of ten licentiate preachers at Paia Hawaiian Church in 1923, has been serving as supply pastor since 1958. The only living member fo the 1923 group of licentiates, he became minister of the Honolua Church that year.
Assistance was provided the Makua Sunday School, Christian Endeavor Society and worship services in English and Hawaiian language from November 12, 1967 to June 1969 by the Rev. Edward Kapoo. - Printed in the Maui News, Hawaiian Mission Sesquincentennial Edition on April 11, 1970.
Over the years the church had been served by supply pastors from the Tri-Isle Association of the UCC. The Rev. Walter T. Baloaloa serves the church faithfully as supply Kahu from 1985 to the present.