By Robert Miller, HPBC Director of Regional Ministries When Blaine & Peggy Fye moved to Oahu in 2013 they had no idea what God had in store for them. Their plan was to live in their daughter’s apartment and retire comfortably in the Aloha State. Today, eight and a half years later, Pastor Blaine has
In early December 2021, leadership from The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) in Fort Worth, Texas gathered with pastors and wives in Nu'uanu on Oahu, Kihei on Maui, and Puna and Kona on the Big Island. On Saturday, December 11, 2021, Hawaii Baptist Academy President Ron Shiira welcomed the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
To pursue the HPBC vision of seeing every church working together to be leaders in impacting God’s Kingdom throughout the Pacific and Asia, we have exciting news to share. In 2021, your HPBC Executive Board researched, developed, and approved new initiatives to strengthen Hawaii Pacific Baptist Churches in theological, leadership, and missional development. With your
By Robert Miller, HPBC Director of Regional Ministries According to the CDC approximately 1 in 54 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This disorder is a developmental disability that affects all ethnic and socioeconomic families, including the Kim family. Calvin Kim who serves as Senior Pastor of Agape
Sunday Highlight: December 25 In our missions prayer time, we’re going to pray for Eric and Anissa Haney, two of our missionaries serving in Stockholm, Sweden. Sweden is like the rest of Europe — a challenging mission field because church planting is slow and difficult. Eric and Anissa are trying something new: they’re telling New
Four ways to honor your pastor this October Ronnie W. Floyd October is Pastor Appreciation Month Regardless of the size of your church, the length of time the pastor has served, or whether the relationship is healthy or not, honoring your pastor is the right thing to do. He is not an idol. He is
by Natalie Nation, IMB Changes and adjustments marked the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In the same way, our IMB Tokyo team adjusted plans more times than I can count. What started as a plan to host more than 200 volunteers turned into the 20 of us volunteering for our events. By God's grace, we
[caption id="attachment_9011" align="alignright" width="300"] Dr. Jeff Iorg is President of Gateway Seminary in Ontario, California[/caption] More than 25 years as a Southern Baptist denominational executive, preceded by more than a dozen years as a Southern Baptist pastor, has shaped my perspective on navigating the vagaries of working among and with such the large network known
After using our old HPBC logo for over a decade we wanted to better represent the fresh work that God is doing in and through our Hawaii Pacific Baptist churches.
Aloha Hawaii Pacific Baptists, we are thrilled to share the new logo with you! After using our old HPBC logo for over a decade we wanted to better represent the fresh work that God is doing in and through our Hawaii Pacific Baptist churches. We got help from Innovative Faith Resources (they produce Pacific Connector,
In what many consider to be a true work of God, Cornerstone Fellowship and The Gathering merged to become one church. Its new name is GracePoint Church. The merged church met together for the first time on May 23, 2021. "Merging was not even on my radar last fall," said James Shiroma, who pastored The