Corey Grinder
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i, to an agnostic father and Buddhist mother, Corey Grinder, Ph.D. or "Pastor C" came faith in Christ at Ka Hale Ho'ano Hou O Ke Akua--a Hawaiian language setting--during his junior year in college just before having to drop out of college for financial reasons. He first served as a professional firefighter with the Honolulu Fire Department while serving as a volunteer and eventually on staff under Ralph Moore from 1987-1992 at Hope Chapel Kaneohe.
After just under five years of developing a single’s ministry, a school of the Bible, and both short and long-term missions to seven nations, Corey was invited by the Japan Foursquare leadership to begin a Hope Chapel in the Greater Tokyo region. There he pastored and served in a bi-vocational capacity as a missions director, bylaws committee chairperson, and facilitator for the licensing of ministers for the Japan Foursquare Gospel Church for nearly eighteen years, the first ten while teaching English and writing textbooks to support his family and ministry, and the last eight while serving to resource indigenous leaders in Asia and beyond.
Corey returned to Honolulu with his family in the summer of 2009 to begin a simple church network which chose to disband in the spring of 2017 and follow Corey as he succeeded Ralph Moore at Hope Chapel Honolulu. After seven years given to Church As We Know It, Corey has returned to a simple church network format to sustain community in the face of rising costs, but more importantly to prioritize worship, discipleship and witness at home, work and play.
A firm believer in discipleship and the value of maintaining the posture of a "life-long learner" through both formal and informal education, Pastor C has studied for two Master’s degrees, an MBA and a Doctor of Missiology with an emphasis in Contextual Theology. He continues to teach and consult around and beyond the Pacific Rim through a 501(c)3 called Ho'onunui, Inc.
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