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by John Williams, Co-director of Hawaii Pacific Baptist Disaster Relief In the aftermath of two Kona-low storms, and after local and mainland volunteers, including a California Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) team, had completed work focused on Oahu’s North Shore, we began responding to requests in rural inland sections of Waianae. One particular family home

by Diana Ventura The Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) Missions Celebration was held on Saturday, April 18, at Olivet Baptist Church on Oahu, and on Sunday, April 18, at Valley Isle Fellowship on Maui. The purpose of these annual celebrations was to worship together and to hear testimonies about how Jesus is being shared in the

From May 4–6, 2026, pastors serving churches across the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention gathered at Puʻu Kahea Conference Center on Oʻahu for the 2026 HPBC Pastors’ Retreat. Forty-one men registered for the event, coming from every corner of the HPBC: the Big Island, Maui, Molokai, Oʻahu, and Kauaʻi, along with one pastor from American Samoa,

The 2026 Asia Baptist Network Leadership Conference was held March 3-4, 2026, at Koza Baptist Church in Okinawa, bringing together church leaders from across Asia for two intensive days of worship, teaching, and fellowship. Under the theme “Being on Mission with God,” the conference drew participants from the network’s 12 Southern Baptist churches spanning Japan,

by Julia Haggard This spring, Baptist Collegiate Ministries (BCM) had the privilege of hosting two mission teams from across the mainland United States, creating a season of service, outreach, and meaningful spiritual impact across Oʻahu. The first team arrived from Carson-Newman University in Tennessee, serving from February 28 to March 6. During their stay, the

by Robert Miller A team of 15 volunteers from Mississippi traveled to O'ahu on March 9 to work on our Hawai'i Pacific Baptist Convention Ke'eaumoku house for two weeks. Skilled men and women from various Mississippi Baptist churches made the journey together to renovate and paint the aging Makiki house. The team was composed of

by Belle Grewatz Over the course of just twelve days, every county in Hawaii was affected by back-to-back Kona Low storms. Some locations received more than thirty inches of rain, saturating the ground and leading to flash floods, landslides, and a near-overtopping of the Wahiawā Dam on Oʻahu, which forced a mandatory evacuation. In the