This campus was relocated to property in Waiʻanae in the mid-1980s, where it remained until it was eventually closed in 1997. HBA also had a small elementary campus in Nānākuli (West Oʻahu), located at Nānākuli Baptist Church. The elementary campus shared grounds with Central Baptist Church until it moved to the former Sacred Hearts Convent in Nuʻuanu. The Nuʻuanu Campus, now called the Stan Sagert Campus, welcomed its first students in 1975 with the class of 1976 being the first to graduate from the new campus. Overall, mainland contributions have accounted for 70 percent of campus building costs. By 1977, they had created the Mainland Advisory Council. In order to raise funding for the purchase, Kong and Hawaii Baptist Academy president Stan Sagert began a fund raising tour among potential mainland donars and institutions. Dan Kong resigned his ministry at Olivet Baptist Church in order to become Vice President and Development Director of the school in 1973. In 1972, the governing body of the Southern Baptist churches authorized purchase of the Robertson Estate on the Pali Highway for $553,000. Hawaii Baptist Academy is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and is the largest Baptist school in the state.īefore relocating to the current Middle and High School campus in Nuʻuanu, HBA held court for some time at Makiki Christian Church. In 1987, the elementary school was moved to a second campus one half of a mile away. Formerly located near Roosevelt High School in Makiki, it moved to its present location in Nuʻuanu Valley in Honolulu in 1975. The school was transferred to the Hawaii Baptist Convention in 1960. The school opened in 1949 in surplus Army barracks on a parcel of land purchased at 1234 Heulu Street in Makiki with thirty-six seventh and eighth grade students. and Mary McCormick to carry out the project. The Southern Baptist Convention Foreign Mission Board began the school in 1947, assigning Southern Baptist Convention missionaries Hugh P. In 1944 the Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia pledged $125,000 toward a school in Hawaii. The school is governed by a board of directors elected by the executive board of the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention, an affiliate of the Southern Baptist Convention. Hawaii Baptist Academy ( HBA) is a private, co-educational, college preparatory primary and secondary Christian school that serves grades K-12 on three campuses. One of the largest Protestant Christian schools in Hawaiʻi. Western Association of Schools and Colleges
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