In 1975, the Hongos moved to Louisville where Randy attended Southern Seminary to study church music and the Hongos found many opportunities to share their songs of aloha in churches, schools and convention halls throughout the south. Their only child, Andrew Keola Kiyohiko, was born in Louisville in April 1978, two months before Randy graduated from seminary. Randy and Gay lived in Louisville for another two years and decided to move back to Hawaii in August 1980 after, they jokingly say, "Andrew started to say 'aloha y'all.'"