Saturday, June 2, 2012

Today's Star Advertiser: UCC Speech by Tom Woods to Give Missionaries their Due


Today's Honolulu Star Advertiser reported in its 'Keeping Faith' section regarding the New England missionaries who arrived in Hawaii in 1820.

Tom Woods, executive director of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the 190th annual Aha Pae'aina of the Hawaii Conference of the United Church of Christ:


The first missionaries to the islands in 1820 should be appreciated for helping the Hawaiian monarchy ward off European conquest, using literacy and Christianity as tools, says Tom Woods, director of the historic Mission Houses Museum.

Woods will speak about positive contributions missionaries made to Hawaii in his keynote speech next week to the 190th ‘Aha Pae­‘aina, the annual statewide meeting of the Hawaii Conference of the United Church of Christ.

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