NOTE: Worship services were held at this location 
on dates in parentheses.

 
Bethel Seaman's Chapel: (now Central Union Church)
1868-1880 (1879-80)

The Bethel Seaman's Chapel also known as the 
Bethel Union Church was pastored at the time by 
Rev. Samuel Damon who was instrumental
in encouraging and directing the ministry to
 Chinese in Hawai'i both in his church and 
throughout the islands.  Located on the Ewa Makai 
corner of Fort Street and Bethel  where the 
Honolulu Business College now stands,  
Samuel P. Aheong, employed as an evangelist by the Hawaii Board of 
Commissioners, started as an English Language School which met three 
evenings a week with 20 students and soon averaged between 
60-100 between 1868 and 1870.  Christian Education was an integral
 part of the class.  He also held Sabbath Evening meetings here 
from February 1869 through 1870 when he returned to China. 

In 1876, 28 Chinese Christians from the Basel Mission in China arrived. 
 Nineteen of those asked Rev. Samuel Damon of the Bethel
Chapel to assist them.  There, they started a small night school.  

It was also here that the newly established Chinese Christian Church 
under Sit Moon alternately held services with the Lyceum between 
1879 through 1880.

Fort Street Church:  (now Central Union Church)
1877

Located on the Ewa Makai corner of Fort Street and Beretania 
 where the Computer Center for the Hawaii Pacific University's  
Downtown campus now resides at the top of the Fort Street Mall,  
Sit Moon, a colporteur employed by the YMCA began Sabbath afternoon 
school here in 1877.

Lyceum: (also the birthplace of the Nu'uanu Congregational Church) 
(1879-80)

Located at the Diamond Head Makai side of Kukui Street and Nu'uanu 
Avenue now known as the Kukui Plaza,  the Lyceum was Honolulu's 
concert hall. It was here that the Hawaii Evangelical Association 
held it's Ecclesiastical Council met on June 8, 1879 to give birth to 
the First Chinese Church by a petition of the Chinese Christians 
to form a church of their own.  It was also where newly established 
Chinese Christian Church first commenced its Sunday Services which
alternated between here and Bethel Church between 1879 through 1880.  


Fort Street Chinese Church 
(First Chinese Church of Christ): 
(1881-1926)

Located at what is now Kamali'i Park between Fort
Street and Pali Hwy, north of the new Central
Fire Station on Beretania,the Chinese Christian 
Church was dedicated on January 2, 1881 and was 
used until it was sold  in 1926.

 Chinese YMCA/ You Hawk Jihu Tau Hui 
[the Beginning Evangelical Society 
of Learners]:  (Chinese Christian Association)
1877-present (1926-1929)

This organization claimed two addresses during
 this period, 1221 Akia Lane (odd numbers are on 
the right side of street facing Mauka)  and 138 South Beretania 
(even numbers are on the mauka side of a street parallelling 
the shoreline).  

Many of the colporteurs and evangelists sent to Honolulu 
to share the Gospel with the Chinese in Hawai'i were brought 
in through this organization which was founded by Sit Moon in 1877.  

It was here that the Chinese Christian Church met for a year 
and a half somewhere between 1926 to 1929, after the Fort Street 
location was sold in 1926 and the new sanctuary
completed on 
King Street in 1929.  While worship services were being held 
here, the Nu'uanu YMCA was being used for Sunday School classes.
 

Mills School/ Mills Institute / Chum Chun Shu Shat 
[Searching for Truth Institute]:  
(Mid Pacific Institute) 1892-present

Started in 1892 by Frank Damon and constructed in 1897, it was 
located on the Makai side of Chaplain Lane between what 
is now Bethel and Fort Streets.  It was started when a group 
of Chinese boys knocked at the door of Frank 
Damon on 
Chaplain Lane and asked to be taught by him.  Damon 
converted his home into a dormatory for 15 boarders.  
According to Diane Mark, they attended 
the Fort Street 
Chinese Church on Sundays and incorporated prayers in Chinese 
and English, Bible Study, and other aspects of religious 
instruction into their daily studies. 

Beretania Mission Gospel Hall: 
(United Church of Christ on Judd Street)
1887-present, 1906-1955 at Beretania Location. 1915-present as UCC

It started at a mission chapel  located somewhere on Hotel Street 
and probably close to Maunakea Street since it reached out to 
the Tin Pan Alley residents who resided at the 
mauka side of 
Maunakea and Beretania Streets.  Begun by the HEA's Chinese 
Department headed by Frank Damon in 1887,  it included Chinese 
Night School and street preaching among many other mission 
activities.  It was relocated in 1909 by Mrs. McKenzie to the
old location of the Kaumakapili Church mauka of the end of 
Smith Street on Beretania and extended according to Mr. Hei Wai Wong 
and Mrs. Annie Kwock toward Maunakea Street.
This would be 
a perfect location to minister to the Chinese living at 
Tin Pan Alley.  This became a major missionary outreach to 
Honolulu's Tin Pan Alley Punti population.   
Because the 
Fort Street Chinese Church was mostly Hakka, the mission
was later split off as the Second Chinese Christian 
Church/Beretania Chinese Church which later became the United 
Church of Christ on Judd Street.  This church would
 later give birth to another church which was made up of 
young more westernized English-speaking second-generation Punti 
Chinese members who formed what would become the Community Church 
of Honolulu.