Later, Goo and other members of his church financially supported Sun's revolution toward a modern China and shared similar ideals.

As the social work of Goo Kim Fui occupied so much of his focus, appears that these innovative programs and social engineering innovations influenced the thinking of the young Sun Yat-sen. Goo Kim Fui was born in 1835 in Mei Xian, China, to a Hakka family.

The congregation gradually grew in number and funds were raised to construct a new church building to accommodate the people.

Like anti-Semitic feelings, the exclusion act in the 1880s and increasing discriminatory activities of foreigners led Goo to organize the Mutual Defense Association ("Lein Wei Hui") in 1894 and in response to help his own countrymen when they were refused medical help at the general hospital, he set up a Chinese hospital in March 1897 (惠華醫院) to cater to Chinese patients.

Yang Wei-pin, the previous Chinese Consul in Hawaii resigned "for domestic reasons" and was immediately replaced by Goo Kim Fui.

He often traveled back to his hometown in China and built houses for his extended family as well as building a church for his community.

Self-made to a large extent, he combines the breadth of view, the solidity of character, and the intellectual amplitude, that mark the man of achievement.

Mr. Goo Kim after his conversion became the foremost leader in our Chinese colony in all departments of Christian and philanthropic work.

... As an honored representative of the Chinese Imperial Government for many years, as an active and busy merchant, a faithful and devoted church deacon, chief mover in Y.M.C.A.