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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD 287
The young people enjoy a weekly "Teen Age Canteen" sponsored by two
unions. A program of games, singing, refreshments, and Bible study satisfies
a need in the lives of these young Christians.
The various Woman's Missionary Union organizations' continue to give a
missionary emphasis. The offerings to missions have been a concrete evidence
of the interest of the whole church in the missionary program.
The rural extension work is very encouraging. Weekly religious education
classes in two rural schools touch more than 250 children. The young people
of the church conduct three afternoon Sunday schools in the pineapple camps
of the same area. From these groups nearly forty have made professions of
faith this year.
Rev. Coleman Clark conducted revival services in October. During these
services more than seventy signed cards, most of them being professions of
faith. There have been nineteen baptisms during the year.
Looking to the future, the outstanding event of the year was the purchase
of property adjoining the church—a lot which will provide space for growth
in the years to come. Three houses at present on the land will be removed
when an adequate church building can be erected. Three-fourths of the cost
has already been paid.
Truly we can praise the Lord as we face the coming year.
NUUANU BAPTIST CHURCH
MALCOLM STUART
The Nuuanu Baptist Church saw God's miracle-working power as its housing
problem was solved, and as vacancies in leadership were filled. The year began
with the congregation meeting in the old tent and being blinded with the dust
or annoyed by rain dropping through the torn canvas. Some of those who had
been won to Christ went away to find an adequate building in which to worship.
Children were kept away from Sunday school. Earnest souls went to God in
prayer concerning these handicaps. The pastor's home was enlarged. Some
seven groups met their each week. In January another tent was secured, and
with voluntary labor a brick floor was laid, and an attractive choir loft, pulpit,
and baptistry were built. Later a permit was granted for the building of a
kindergarten house. With the close of the war, materials for a new church
building were released. In November construction on a $20,000 concrete tile
auditorium, with a seating capacity of 460, was begun. In December the
building fund stood at $15,000.
Some thirty recently-baptized Christians prayed earnestly for workers, and
most of them found, as did Samuel of old, God calling each of them by name.
They answered him and accepted places of heavy responsibility. They brought
some seventy-five persons to acknowledge Christ as Lord and Saviour. Many
answered God's call into special service, making a total of twelve going into
the ministry, and five girls offering themselves as church workers. These are
leaving full-time jobs and entering school.
The church membership is now 166. A kindergarten with thirty pupils,
most of whom are from non-Christian homes, was opened in the fall under the
direction of Mrs. Clarabel Isdell McDonald. Ninety-one students attended
week-day religious education classes. The Intermediate and Young People's
Unions reached the standard. The Woman's Missionary Union reports forty
unevangelized children reached by the Y.W.A. The Lottie Moon Christmas
offering amounted to $650.
KAUAI
COLEMAN D. CLARK
Our work on the island of Kauai is centered about the Waimea Baptist
Church which meets in a rented store building in Kekaha. As a result of a
revival meeting led by Rev. Malcolm Stuart, and the continued evangelistic
effort throughout the year, the addition of eight souls brought the membership
to seventy-seven. We have 107 enrolled in the Sunday school, and thirty-seven
in the more recently organized B.T.U. It is hoped that the W.M.U. organizations
may be better established in 1946. While the church was without a pastor for
over three months, after the departure of Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Leonard to