| Paul Nakamura was born in Waialua, a small sugar plantation town on the north shore of
the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Nakamura was ordained in Los Angeles in 1955. Originally a
Congregationalist, he attended Gustavus Adolphus College and then Augustana Lutheran
Seminary, Rock Island, Ill. After ordination he worked with Dr. L.S.G. Miller, former
missionary to Japan, among the Japanese community in Los Angeles. In 1975, with the
assistance of a layperson, Yoshi Hokama, Nakamura initiated a ministry with
Japanese-Americans in the Torrance and Gardena area of Los Angeles. In 1979 Lutheran
Oriental Church, Torrance, became the first Japanese-American congregation in the Lutheran
Church in America.
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