Preparing the Way by Christopher L. Cook

Preparing the Way A Pictorial History for the Hawai’i Mission Bicentennial 1820-2020 Featuring Images of Events Held in New England in 2019 Christopher “Chris” Cook, author of the The Providential Life & Heritage of Henry Obookiah, a ground-breaking, modern-day biography of the legendary first Native Hawaiian Christian. In Preparing the Way the author’s indepth research and collection of previously unpublished photographs and illustrations, tells the true story of this mission to Hawai‘i made infamous by novelist James Michener in his fictious best-seller Hawaii. How Native Hawaiians Joined with American Protestant Missionaries in New England and Together Brought Christianity and the Bible to Hawai’i. Preparing the Way presents a concise pictorial account of the historical first American Protestant Mission to arrive in Hawai’i as told through the lives of three Polynesian men: ʻŌpūkahaʻia (Henry Obookiah) and his close companion Hopu (Thomas Hopoo) were instrumental in requesting t