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In 1820, when two Protestant missionary families arrived in Waimea, Queen Deborah Kapule was the wife of King Kaumualiʻi, the last king of Kauaʻi. She and the king helped establish the families as a mission station and supported and protected them. Not long after, due to inter-island rivalry, King Kaumualiʻi was abducted to Oʻahu. During this time, Queen Deborah converted to Christianity.
In 1836, Queen Deborah and sixteen other souls left Waimea and established a church at the mouth of the Wailua River. This church was the ancestor of this present Kapaʻa Church. It was a simple grass hut. Queen Deborah died in 1853.
Later the grass hut was replaced by a wooden frame building. In 1880, that building was dismantled and moved to the present site of the church in Kapaʻa. In 1948, it was taken down and replaced with the present building.