Kaikorai Presbyterian Church has stood at the crossroads of Taieri Road and Nairn Street since 1868.

With self-sacrifice and faith, £477 was raised, and a modest wooden building with a shingle roof was erected on land gifted by Miss Helen Hood.

It stands, today, on the site of the old wooden church which was moved to the rear of the grounds to serve as a hall.

But it was not until the centenary of the church that it became part of the West Dunedin Union, serving the districts of Wakari, Halfway Bush, Brockville and Kaikorai – the very areas from which those early settlers traveled to worship, and Waitati.

The years have seen the rule of six sovereigns, the emergence of the depression (during which the congregation gave unobtrusive unemployment assistance), and two world wars.