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"For students of the history of the Chinese in Hawaii this book easily ranks as one of the three most valuable contemporary references,

the others being Tin-Yoke Char's Sandalwood Mountains: Readings and Stories of the Early Chinese in Hawaii and Clarence E. Glick's Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese Migrants in Hawaii. Well-documented facts tracing the conversion of the earliest Chinese Christian immigrants by Lutheran missionaries in Kwangtung to the establishment of Congregational and Anglican (Episcopal) churches in these islands are vividly supplemented by interviews with elderly descendants. A most welcome depiction of the contributions of Chinese Christian men and women to the nurturing of Christian ideals in a multi-ethnic American community." -lrma Tam Soong, Executive Director Emeritus, Hawaii Chinese History Center

"The Chinese Christian Association of Hawaii has done a great service in commissioning Diane Mei Lin Mark to write this history of Christian missions among Chinese in Hawaii. From the pages of scattered old documents Ms. Mark has brought to life those early Chinese converts to Christ who in turn became His ambassadors. This is a fascinating story of compassionate and caring servants of Christ, Chinese and Caucasian, who worked together for the propagating of the Gospel among the new immigrant people, the establishment of churches for their nurture and care, and how that mission has flowered through changing climates and needs into significant churches and ministries." The Rev. Dr. Teruo Kawata, General Secretary and Conference Minister, Hawaii Conference United Church of Christ

"The Christian contribution of so many Chinese people is well documented and chronicled in this valuable history. It witnesses to a strong faith from a remarkable group of people which has enriched our churches. We rejoice in our Chinese Christian roots. -The Rt. Rev. Donald P. Hart, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii

"This book by Diane Mei Lin Mark illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of Hawaii's history. She tells in fascinating detail of the extraordinary early Chinese missionaries and the role which they and Christian institutions played in the acculturation of the Chinese in Hawaii."- Dr. Lawrence H. Fuchs, author of Hawaii Pono and professor of American Civilization and Politics, Brandeis University