In 1985, a small group of believers were meeting on Thursday nights at the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station Chapel. The prayer meetings were originally started by a Marine couple, Ross and Darla Lamkin. Reverend Mervyn Miller, the Regional Field Supervisor for the Pacific region, while visiting the Islands, informed the prayer group in Kaneohe that a missionary had been appointed for Hawaii.

The Robertson family received their mission appointment at the 1986 General Conference held in St. Louis, Missouri. The Robertson family had pastored a church in Neosho, Missouri for seventeen years. They resigned the church in Neosho in October of 1986 and began deputational travel that November.

After fifteen months of deputational travel, Brother Robertson and family finally arrived in Honolulu on May 11, 1988. He became the pastor of the small group of saints that had been meeting in Kaneohe. The first Sunday service was held in Keaiwa Heiau State park in Aiea. Soon after, a recreation center was rented for Sunday services on the Leeward side of the island in Waipio Gentry with Thursday services still being held at the Marine Chapel.

Eventually, the congregation outgrew the recreation center and on June 4, 1989, the congregation moved to 20 Bougainville Drive, it's present location.

New Life UPC has produced Daughter churches in Waipahu, Kailua and in Wai'anae. The Wai'anae church had its beginning from a Bible Study which Pastor Robertson conducted for two years. Today the Wai'anae Church is pastored by Reverend Michael Loscalzo, the Kailua Church is pastored by Reverend Jonathan Sanders and the Waipahu Church is pastored by Reverend Nestor Villarin.

Now in it's 16th year, New Life has seen hundreds experience their own personal pentecost and hundreds more from the local and military communities ministered to. Pastor and Mrs. Robertson felt the need to return to the mainland in 2002, at which time, Rev. & Mrs. Richard McGriffin became pastor. The church is enthusiastically moving forward with a burden to reach the Island of Oahu with the Pentecostal Message.

Our Mission Statement

New Life Pentecostal Church is a dynamic 21st Century congregaton. Our mission is to share the love of Jesus Christ in such a way that people of all faiths and nationalities will be drawn to Him with every need that life may have presented them. It is our desire that this relationship with Christ will cause men and women everywhere to repent and desire to worship God in Spirit and in Truth. We teach the plan of salvation to be repenteance, water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin and the subsequent infilling of the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking with other tongues as the spirit gives the utteracne. (Acts 2:38)

Our Vision

With the establishment of the Life Points Christian Home Fellowship Ministry in 2003, New Life has launched into a five year plan that will see home fellowships numbering no more than 15 persons in 100 island wide neighborhoods. These Home Fellowships will be the seed groups to establish 25 neighborhood outreach centers accross the island. The aquisition of property for the construction of a central worship center is moving forward as well. Please pray with us that these goals will be accomplished and Jesus will be glorified in the process



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