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Vision Statement
“That all who enter this Church encounter Christ as children of God, disciples of Christ, and stewards of every gift entrusted to us by God.”
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Mission Statement
“ To live our baptismal promises by living our faith through prayer, service, and generosity.”
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A Brief History
In 1840 a small Catholic community, gathering along the banks of a stream on Oahu, established the Waialua Catholic Mission. On May 8, 1853, Over 160 years ago, the people and frrends of the Waialua Catholic Mission built the first Roman Catholic Church in the North Shore area. In a dedication ceremony, they placed the new church and new parish under their patron saint: St. Michael the Archangel. This event marked the begining of St. Michael Parish, as recoreded in Diocesan records.
As time went on and as the community grew St. Micahel Parish established a School and Various Missions in order to tend to the growing flock. In 1944 St. Michael Parish School was established by Fr. Ernest Claus, SS.CC. and has ministered to the children of our community providing them with a good Catholic Chrisitian education.
Our Mission Church, Sts. Peter and Paul at Waimea started from humble beginings. Catholics residing in the Waimea, Pupukea, and Sunset area informed Father Louis Boeynaems, SS.CC. then pastor of St. Michael Parish of their desire to have a mission church facilitating attendance. Services were being conducted at the time in private homes and then in an old army barracks on privately owned land. Father Louis purchased a property that of an old quarry located just inshore from the northern point of Waimea Bay. He described the place as having a tower and old abandond buildings with walls, no floors, no roof and full of weeds and trees. With the help of the Catholic community and plantation workers they cleared the area, and installed new cement floors, windows and a roof. After years of work, Father Louis held the first services in the new mission church on Easter Snday April 5, 1953.
For more information and detailed histroy please visit the St. Michael story page.
