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About Us
September 26, 1993: Hope Chapel Kapolei Foursquare Church (HCK) celebrates its first Sunday at Iilima Intermediate School in Ewa Beach. 436 attend the first service. Office space is leased at the Ewa Professional Center, and our new church is underway!
As of 2007, our fourteenth year of existence, we have planted 11 churches and average 600 attendees per weekend, occupying several locations in our storied history: Holomua Elementary in Ewa, Kapolei Elementary and High School, and Barbers Point Elementary.
September 2007 will birth a new era at HCK, as we move into our new home, the former Fitness Center at Kalaeloa. The spacious campus has a Sanctuary that can acommodate 600+ per service, ample room for children, Staff offices, and even an Olympic-size swimming pool!
John Honold, our Senior Pastor, moved his family from the Windward Side to the City of Kapolei in the summer of 1994. John has been married for 22 years to Brenda, and has three children: daughter Jaymie (a college junior), and sons Jordan and Jeremy (high school senior and junior, respectively).
John spent his first nine years of fulltime ministry on the staff of Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay, where he was an Associate Pastor working with Singles, Youth, MiniChurch, Worship and production of Special Events.
Over the years, HCK has enjoyed a “championship blend” of skilled Staff Members, many of whom have gone on as church planters amidst eleven daughter/granddaughter/great-granddaughter churches, including three overseas.
Weekend Services are called “New Community”; it is our conviction that the assembly of Believers each week at church provides an opportunity for us to live out the love of God as we share in Worship that invites God’s Presence and Power, the Bible taught in a way that is easy to understand, and Fellowship of the heart that is both inviting and real. This commitment leads to an experience of community the way God designed it to be – in a sense, “New Community”, as compared to what we unfortunately experience at times in the frenzied everyday world. While far from perfect, it is the steady heart commitment of consistent fellowship that allow us to both “practice and hone our skills” in loving one another deeply.
The focus of ministry at HCK is MiniChurch, midweek fellowships of 8-10 adults that meet in homes and focus on developing environments of unconditional love. Led by trained lay pastors, the locus of study is called “head, heart, hands”, where Biblically-based discussion revolves around expounding on the message heard at the weekend services. Key to this study method is finding that “one act of obedience” that God is calling members to each week. Much of our ministry towards one another happens at MiniChurch.
We believe that “everyone has something to do” in serving the Lord. This is epitomized by the 300 plus volunteers that serve in various capacities of responsibility and authority in presenting church each week.
In the next 20 years, it is our belief that God has great plans for the State of Hawaii. Our prayer is that through the timely and purposed obedience of Christians to our Lord that 2025 will mark the emergence of Hawaii as the “first Christian State of the 21st century.”
At HCK, we invite you to join us and “Dream Big!”
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