Chris Cook, Dr. Kapali Lyon, and Dr. Ralph Kam will give a one-hour, three-part talk on the London Missionary Society’s Tahitian mission deputation who came to Honolulu in April 1822. An overview of the Protestant foreign missions movement which sent missionaries to Tahiti and Hawai‘i in the early nineteenth-century, and the events in the Society Islands leading up to the unplanned arrival of London Missonary Society missionaries in Honolulu in 1822, will be presented by Hawai‘i author Chris Cook. The positive impact upon the Sandwich Islands Mission in 1822-23 by the ministry in Hawai‘i of Tahitian Christian missionaries Auna and Aunawahine, and notable English missionary William Ellis, will be given by Kapali Lyon Ph. D., Chair of the Religion Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. The Tahitians brought the first hymns to Hawai‘i, preached the first sermon in the Hawaiian language and presented the Christian faith in Polynesian terms to the ali‘i nui. The creation and widespread popularity of Na Himeni Hawaii, the first Hawaiian language hymnal and the first book printed in the Hawaiian language, as printed by the Mission Press on the grounds of the Hawaiian Mission Houses, will be described by Ralph Kam, Ph.D. He is the author of the chapter titled, “Origin and Legacy of Na Himeni Hawaii” in the Hawaiian Mission Houses’ Hawai‘i Mission Bicentennial publication Kōkua Aku, Kōkua Mai. Kam is also a co-editor, with David W. Forbes and Thomas A. Woods, of Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawai‘i and their Hawaiian and Tahitian Colleagues, 1820-1900 (2018).