Today's American Minute — First Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands
First Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands - American Minute with Bill Federer
First Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands
In 1823, Queen Kaʻahumanu and six high chiefs requested to be baptized as Christians. The Queen Kaʻahumanu's government then banned prostitution and drunkenness ... In 1824, Chiefess Kapiolani, the cousin of Kamehameha I, defied the volcano goddess Pele by saying a Christian prayer, climbing down into the lava crater and returning unharmed, then eating the forbidden Ōhelo berries.