By the time I arrived, my parents had accepted a role as the first reverend of a local church to establish the second branch of Ekalesia Fa'apotopotoga Kerisiano Samoa (EFKS) in Ōtara. The suburb of Ōtara in the mid-60s was set up by the State offering cheaper housing located near the freezing works and production and manufacturing industries. By the 1970s, the suburb of Ōtara was a place labelled by State departments without public amenities, such as kindergartens, trees, and local parks. Young children of low-income families were missing out.