God’s Story. All of history is part of it. History is HIS story! And every one of us who were brought into God’s family of faith, the Christian Church, by His love and grace, are now actively and faithfully playing our specific part in HIS story of salvation through His Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Our part in God’s Grand Story of Salvation began at our baptisms and continues to be played out to this day as His Spirit and His Word guide us into His plans and purposes for each and every one of us. What an indescribable joy and honor it is that the Creator of the universe, the Redeemer of our souls, and the Sanctifier of our lives, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, has chosen you and me to each fulfill an important part of HIS Story from the very moment He saved us to our very last earthly breath! Wow! Amazing! How exciting! What a blessing! And while our Heavenly Father is writing His story of salvation throughout the world, all of us who are part of the Waikoloa Lutheran Church Ohana, by local membership or mainland support, are very specifically part of His story of love and grace for our beloved Waikoloa Village. We invite you to read on and discover for yourself the story of God’s love for this growing family community built on the volcanic lava beds far above the beaches and waves of the South Kohala Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mahalo!

God has been writing His love story in the hearts of His Waikoloa Lutheran Church Ohana for fifty years and counting. It’s a beautiful story filled with God’s provision, power, persistence, peace and protection for and through His small but faithful church Ohana. It’s the story of how the Gospel of His Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, has been, is being, and will be shared more than ever to our growing island village and all its families. It’s a story about commitment, challenge, change and conquest. It’s God’s love story in Waikoloa and the best chapters are still to be written!

“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21

The exciting chapter of His love story in Waikoloa that God is currently writing could be best described as “New”. Over the last several months, we praise and thank our Lord for all the new people, new leadership, new strategies, new possibilities, and especially a renewed vision to fulfill God’s desires and plans for us in the future chapters He is about to write. In His divine wisdom and through His Spirit-led guidance, we are fully convinced that He has prepared us over the last fifty years up to this very moment for “such a time as this”.

While we pray our Lord continues to write His love story for Waikoloa Village for decades to come, with many new and exciting chapters yet to write, He has been generous and gracious to us in revealing what the next three chapters here at Waikoloa Lutheran Church will be all about. We are calling these next chapters of God’s love story in Waikoloa “THE VISION”, “THE VOYAGE” and “THE VICTORY”.

In reality, the next chapter was already started by our heavenly Father eight years ago when He provided the funds to purchase one acre of property strategically located in the heart of Waikoloa. Thus, in a spiritual sense, He began writing our future as Waikoloa Lutheran church several years in the past, the future chapter titled “THE VISION”