DEAR PARENTS
Reading and studying good books is essential for personal growth and development for both us and our children. The most important book we can read and study is the Bible. It is not just a book, but a living and active Word that can change our lives. Jesus said, “I am the Word” (John 1:1) and “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst” (John 6:35).
We are not what we eat. We are what we read. Jesus teaches that food we put into our body cannot defile us. It is what comes from inside our heart that defiles us. For, out of our heart, comes all kinds of evil.
The books we read shape our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Good books challenge us, inspire us, and teach us great lessons from the Bible.
KIN Publications’ goal is to produce children’s books that illustrate some of the truths of the Bible with amazing stories from the Pacific Island to encourage and help children in their walk with Jesus. We pray this goal is a good one for you. Thank you for visiting our website. We’d love to hear from you.
Stories of our Pacific Island ancestors who did extraorinary work for God and their communities
A TALE OF TWO MEN: BOOK ONE: When I think of the great English writer Charles Dickens, I think of the early English Missionaries of the mid 1800s who took the Gospel to Pacific Islands. I also recall the many, courageous native Pacific Island missionaries and teachers who helped the missionaries. These were ordinary people who did extraordinary work for God. We hope to put out a children’s series based on the lives of some of them. One such person is Rarotongan native, Pao, and his encounter with an Englishman known as Cannibal Charley on the island of Lifu, Loyalty Group. These are two very different men. One started off well and ended badly—the other, quite the opposite.
Born at Ka`ū on the island of Hawai`i in 1792, Opukahaia was one of the first native Hawaiians to become a Christian, inspiring American Protestant missionaries to come to the islands during the 19th century. He is credited with starting Hawaii's conversion to Christianity. His name was usually spelled Obookiah during his lifetime. His name Henry is sometimes Hawaiianized as Heneri.
Just before their book, The Story of Laulii, went to press, Alexander Willis and his Samoan wife, Laulii received word that the warships from the three world powers have been destroyed in the harbor of Apia. This was the famous hurricane of 1889. The couple ended the book with a heart-felt condolences for the death of many brave men and a brief mention of the courageous Samoan natives who saved lives.
In a book titled "The Hawaiian Islands: Their Progress and Condition under the Missionary Labors", Rufus Anderson says that next to Hawaiian Queen Kaahumanu, the most noted of the female chief reformed was Kapiolani. He writes: “Observing the stronghold which superstition had upon the minds of the people, she made a journey of a hundred miles, in 1825, to the great crater of KIlauea, the supposed residence of Pele, and thre, in ways fitted to impress the native mind, set at nought the power and wrath of the pretended goddess.”
Read short stories about some of the greatest men and women and excerpts from the books they wrote. If you want, we will email you FREE jpeg or PDF files just for visiting our site. You can print and frame up to three images for yourself. We ask that you don’t print more than one set or sell them. God keep you and make His face to shine upon you.
That’s our KIN Publications logo. Our young branding and marketing person, Alo Coleman, suggests choosing colors and a logo that say who we are and what we stand for. We guess that’s what branding is all about. But there’s a point to our young friend’s wisdom. Colors affect people. They evoke all kinds of feelings and emotions. That says something about our amazing God Who created everything, doesn’t it?
To save money, Alo suggested Dan design the logo himself. Dan picked two colors — Blue and Green. Blue suggests Nature. It is calm and serene. But Blue can also be cold and distant. The same Blue is present in the Bible and Mountains and on the plant within the world. We know what you may be thinking. Does that mean the Bible is cold and distant? The answer is a BIG NO! It’s cold and distant ONLY to those who refuse to hear it.
The circle stands for world. In the logo, Dan wanted to show the world has colored the Bible. How? So many are teaching a false Bible or Gospel. AND YET, the truths of the Bible are not affected one bit. Out of the Bible sprouts a GREEN plant! The Bible mentions GREEN often. It usually stands for Life, Renewal and Resurrection. Our company tagline or slogan is: BREAK OUT WITH A GOOD BOOK! If we have the truth (and we do in God’s Word), the world cannot hold us down. We break out of the world!
The single, greatest Good Book is the Bible. And it teaches we are not part of this world. Our hope and prayer are, our children’s books will illustrate that single and unbreakable truth! God bless! Dan & June.
