How it all started

When God moves, there is great power. After a series of evangelistic meetings among the Japanese, testimonies of miraculous healing, and long periods of fasting and prayer, a revival had swept through a church in the late 1920's. That church was the Waialae Holiness Church, and as a result of that church's growth, the new Honolulu Holiness Church was formed in 1932 (later to be called Honolulu Christian Church in 1983). English ministries began within the first couple of years, mainly for children and youth.



In the 1940's and 50's there was substantial growth, leading to the need for a new "home" for God's family. The church moved from Moiliili St. to Alexander St., then to Heulu St. in Makiki. By 1959, the church purchased and moved to the current property on Oahu Ave. In the 1960's the church built a new worship center. In the 1970's, a radio ministry was started, and there was tremendous growth among youth and university students through the church's gospel ministry on the University of Hawaii, Manoa, campus. By the 1980's, many of these young people entered into full-time gospel ministry and long-term missionary service. The new educational building at the Oahu campus was completed during this time, to accommodate the growing ministry. With growth comes the birth of new churches as well. The Pearl City Highland Holiness Church (now West Oahu Christian Church) was started by a group from HCC in the 1970s.



Through its life, HCC has had periods of victory and periods of challenges. In God's eyes, both are periods of growth. Like a tree, that bears all its leaves and fruit in the summer, and then endures all its barrenness in the winter, the life of a church too has its seasons of summer and winter. It's all part of God's faithful plan to nurture and grow His people, Christ's Church. Today, we are in a season of spring. Consider joining this local family of God with all the new life, hope, love, and dreams that this season brings.

statement of faith

Our Statement of Faith comes from the Constitution of the OMS Holiness Church of North America.

  • God the Father
    God, the Father Almighty, Creator, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe; His essential nature is Spirit, His essential attribute is absolutely holy, and His essential character is love.


    God the Son, Jesus Christ

    Jesus Christ, the eternal Son, was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, thereby having a fully divine nature and a fully human nature in one person, and is the only mediator between God and man. To accomplish salvation, He lived a sinless life, completely fulfilling righteousness and offered Himself a substitutionary sacrifice for the sin of the world, satisfying divine justice. He was crucified under Pontius Pilate, died, and was buried. On the third day, He arose bodily from the dead. He ascended into heaven where in His glorified state He intercedes for believers. He shall come again personally and visibly to judge the world in righteousness and to establish His Kingdom.


    God the Holy Spirit

    The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity. His ministry is to reveal Christ through the Word of God, to fulfill salvation in the regeneration and sanctification of believers, to direct and empower the church in the fulfillment of the Great Commission, and to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment.

  • The Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, the Word of God, is a divinely inspired revelation; it is without error in its original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in matters pertaining to faith and practice.

  • Man was created in the image of God but he disobeyed God, thereby incurring spiritual death, which is separation from God. Man is saved from the condition of spiritual death only by the grace of God through faith in Christ and His redemptive act and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. His spiritual growth and maturity is initiated by God's Spirit and by a conscious act of dedication on the part of the believer and is effected by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

  • Salvation is based solely on the grace and love of God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Man never gains salvation by his merit or deeds. It is only received by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior because of His redeeming work on the cross. Through salvation the believer is forgiven of sin, becomes a child of God, is empowered for godly living and service, receives eternal life and an everlasting relationship with God in Heaven, and is saved from God’s wrath and Hell.

  • The Church consists of all who have received salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and have been united into one body under Jesus Christ, who is the Head of the Church. The Church is called to make disciples of every nation and people by the instruction of the Word, by the fellowship of believers, by the practice of ordinances specifically baptism and communion, by loving service and by the sharing of the Gospel.