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Early Membership of Korean Methodist Churches in Hawai'i Early Membership of Korean Methodist Churches in Hawai‘i C D H L M ‘ Published in June by the Center for Korean Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, as a project of the Centennial Celebration of Korean Immigration to the United States. Center for Korean Studies University of Hawai'i at Mānoa 1881 East-West Road Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/ . Contents Introduction Alphabetical List of Church Members List of Church Members by Location Release Notes Detail from a page in the ledger of early Korean Methodist church members maintained in the Hawai'i District Office of the United Methodist Church. 5 E M K M C H‘ embership lists of the early Korean it the earliest known list of Korean Methodist Methodist churches in Hawai‘i were church members in Hawai‘i. e list identifies found in January in the Hawai‘i out of members as confirmed (baptized) Msuperintendent’s files at the Hawai‘i District Office Christians before they arrived in Hawai‘i. e list of the United Methodist Church. e ledger sheets, includes the names of missionaries, such as, James written in English, are categorized by plantation S. Gale, George Heber Jones, Samuel A. Moffett, church and membership categories (member, and W. A. Noble, who baptized early immigrant probationer, and catechumen). ey contain six Christians in Korea. ese missionaries include columns: date (received), member name, state in Methodists (Noble, Jones, W. B. Scranton) as life (marital status), how received or baptized, how well as Presbyterians (Moffett, Gale, Horace G. and when dismissed, and remarks. Underwood). Jones was the minister of the Nai- e first column, “Date Received,” indicates Ri Methodist Church (known also as Yong-dong when the member started to attend church or or the Chemulpo Wesleyan Church) as well as when the member was baptized. In some cases, it the superintendent of the West Korea District, also includes the name of a missionary in Korea including the Chemulpo (present Inch’ŏn) and or a minister in Hawai‘i, presumably the person Kangwha area. Jones encouraged church members who baptized the member. e “How Received to immigrate to Hawai‘i when the East-West or Baptized” column likewise contains the name Development Company was having a hard time of a missionary in Korea or a minister in Hawai‘i, recruiting potential immigrants. As a result, many presumably the person who baptized the member. members of churches in his district, including Nai- e “How & When Dismissed” column includes Ri Church, were among the immigrants on the first the name of the Hawai‘i minister who received the ship landing in Honolulu. member and very rarely indicates how the member e entire group from the first ship to arrive, was transferred, such as “by letter to California.” SS Gaelic, went to Waialua Plantation in the e last column, “Remarks,” states if the member northwest part of O‘ahu on January , . SS was transferred to some other location or went Coptic carried a second group of immigrants, back to Korea. who landed on March , , and this group was e list appears to have been recorded by a assigned to Kahuku Plantation, about ten miles Korean, probably at the end of , which makes distant from Waialua Plantation. Christians in 5 Table 1. Korean Church Membership Circa 1904 L. Pearson to organize the Korean Evangelical Kaua‘i Hanamā‘ulu 17 Society in Honolulu in November . It is likely Kapa‘a 33 that Ahn, Woo, and Chi Pom Hong were leading Keālia 16 the society until the arrival of Seung Ha Hong. Kekaha 18 Upon his arrival in Honolulu on February , , Kōloa 16 Seung Ha Hong took charge of the mission as a Līhu‘e 12 local preacher. e Korean Evangelical Mission Makaweli 22 received regular church status in April from O‘ahu ‘Ewa 56 John W. Wadman, who succeeded Pearson as Honolulu 20 Hawaii Methodist Mission superintendent at the Kahuku 37 Waialua 92 Table 2. Number of Members Baptized Waipahu 36 Elmer M. Cable 5 Maui Hāmākua Poko 9 C. T. Collyer 3 Pu‘unēnē 16 Ferrik (?; possibly Malcolm C. Fenwick) 1 Total 400 J. S. Gale 3 George Heber Jones 37 Graham Lee (Lee Gil Ham in Korean) 2 McRai (?; possibly D. M. McCrae) 1 these two camps started informal worship services S. A. Moffett 2 together not long aer they settled in the Kahuku- S. F. Moore 3 1 Waialua area, probably sometime in March . J. R. Moose 1 is was the beginning of the Korean Methodist W. A. Noble 14 Church on American soil. e list includes C. F. Reid 1 members at fourteen churches on three islands W. B. Scranton 4 (see Table ). Horace G. Underwood 1 Waialua (O‘ahu), with ninety-two members, Weaer (?) 1 was the largest church, and the nine-member Bu Du Ri (?; possibly G. A. Bridle) 1 Hāmākua Poko, near Pā‘ia-Spreckelsville (Maui), Eng Gil (?; possibly F. Olinger) 2 Han Yu Ram (?) 1 was the smallest. ese church members Lee Ul Lim (?) 1 represent about percent of the total number of 2 Mu Du Il (?) 2 Korean immigrants (,) in Hawaii at the end of Ru Na Nuls (?; possibly W. D. Reynolds) 2 . Sang Song (?) 1 e twenty members of the Honolulu Church Simply identified as “Presbyterian” 2 (the present Christ United Methodist Church) Year received only 17 could be founding members. Ahn Chung Soo and Total 108 Woo Pyeng Kil3 contacted Superintendent George . Duk Hee Murabayashi, “Korean Contributions to the Hawaii Metho- . Robert C. Schmitt, Historical Statistics of Hawaii (Honolulu: dist Mission: –.” Paper presented at the Conference on Korean University Press of Hawaii, ), . Christianity, American Academy of Religion/Western Region (Claremont . Murabayashi, “Korean Contributions,” –. School of eology, March , ), . 6 EARLY MEMBERSHIP OF KOREAN METHODIST CHURCHES IN HAWAII EARLY MEMBERSHIP OF KOREAN METHODIST CHURCHES IN HAWAII 7 Hawai‘i Korean Methodists pose with the Rev. George Heber Jones during Jones's visit to Honolulu Methodist Church. Jones is seated at center in the first row. Among others in the photograph are, in the front row, Chan Ho Min, second from le, and Dora Kim, third from right; in the second row, Soon Hyun, Ye Jai Kim, and Chi Pom Hong, second, third, and fourth from th ele, and Sun Il Yee, far right; in the third row, Hong Kyun Shim, third from the right. end of . Mission when the first immigrant groups arrived Most of the names of missionaries who and was replaced by John W. Wadman at the end baptized members in Korea are written on the of . Seung Ha Hong, a local preacher from list in English, but a few are written in Korean. Namyang, Kyŏnggi Province, arrived in Honolulu Lee Gil Ham was the known Korean name of in February , , and returned to Korea around Graham Lee, but some other Korean names could July . His return was noted in the list. Pyeng not be identified. Names written in Korean on the Gil Woo (later known as Pyung Koo Yoon) arrived list are romanized with a question mark. Some in Honolulu on October , . Woo was with names in English were hard to decipher or further Syngman Rhee in the first graduating class of Pai identification has not been determined yet. Some Chai Haktang, which was established by Methodist names are suggested for possible matching. e missionaries. e person who baptized Woo is not numbers of members baptized in Korea by each identified on the list. Superintendent Wadman sent missionary are listed in Table . Woo, Ye (Lee) Kio Tam, and Im (Lim) Hyeng Choo ree persons who received (baptized) church as local preachers to various plantations from May members in Hawai‘i were George L. Pearson, . All three were members of the Honolulu Seung Ha Hong, and Pyeng Gil Woo. Pearson church. Ye is noted as “moved to California” and was the superintendent of the Hawai‘i Methodist Im as “returned to Korea” on the list. Although the 6 EARLY MEMBERSHIP OF KOREAN METHODIST CHURCHES IN HAWAII EARLY MEMBERSHIP OF KOREAN METHODIST CHURCHES IN HAWAII 7 Table 3. Pastors Assigned to Korean Methodist Churches, 1905 Kaua‘i ‘Ele‘ele and Kōloa Kyung Chik Lee (Tongdaemun Church) Kīlauea and Keālia To be supplied Līhu‘e and Hanamā‘ulu Soon Hyen (Hyun) (Nai-Ri Church) Makaweli and Kekaha To be supplied O‘ahu ‘Ewa Young Shik Kim (went to Samgai Church in Seoul in 1914) Honolulu Chan Ho Min (Chungdong Church) Kahuku and Waialua Chung Soo Lim Waipahu Yee Chai Kim (Nai-Ri Church) Waianae To be supplied Maui Lahaina and Kā‘anapali To be supplied Spreckelsville and Wailuku Chi Pum Hong (Pyongyang) Hawai‘i Hakalau To be supplied Hilo and ‘Ōla‘a Pan Suk Shin (later known as Hong Kyun Shin) Honoka‘a To be supplied Kohala Chin Tai Choi (Seoul) Kona To be supplied ‘O‘ōkala To be supplied Source: Journal of the First Session of the Hawaii Mission of the Methodist Episcopal (Honolulu, 1905), 39–40. Note: Affiliations with churches in Korea have been added in parentheses. list does not identify who baptized Ye and Im, Ye was organized, and the First Session of the Hawai‘i was an exhorter from Namsanhyon (Methodist) Mission was held from December through . At Church in P’yŏngyang, and Im was a founder of the session, nine Korean ministers were assigned Sundol (Methodist) Church, Kangseo.4 Im’s son, to churches on Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i.5 Tai Sik, was nine years old when he arrived in Eight other plantation churches did not have Honolulu with his father on January , .
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