 Kahikolu Church restoration was completed around 1984.In 1993, the body of one of the first native Hawaiians to become a Christian, Henry Ōpūkaha`ia', was reinterred at Kahikolu Church.Ōpūkaha`ia' is credited (or blamed, depending on the speaker's perspective) with starting Hawaii's conversion to Christianity and had travelled from Hawai'i's Big Island by way of Connecticut to Yale University in 1809 where he studied English and Christianity and planned to return to Hawaii himself to preach.