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New Hope Christian Fellowship

Church in Hawaii, US

Church in HI , US

New Hope Christian Fellowship is a Pentecostal church based in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is affiliated with the Foursquare Church.

Overview

The church was started by Pastor Wayne Cordeiro in 1996. It has planted more than 120 churches. In 2023 it has approximately 20,000 attendees each week across all 50 US states.[1]

History

Pastor Wayne Cordeiro (born on October 20, 1952, in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) and his wife Anna moved from Oregon to Hilo, Hawaii in 1983 and started a church in the Waiakea Villas area. It moved to the Hilo Women's Club and then to the Hilo Boys' and Girls' Club. In 1990, the "Gathering Place" facility was built, and the church grew to 2000.

In September 1995, Cordeiro and Anna moved to Honolulu to start New Hope. For seventeen years the church met in the auditorium of Farrington High School.[2][3]

By 2005, the church had about 70 full and part-time staff and 1,500 volunteers.[2]

On Friday, November 23, 2012, Farrington's audi

Dr. Wayne Cordeiro

Pastor

Wayne Cordeiro is the founding pastor of the New Hope International Ministry, beginning in 1984 in Hilo, Hawaii. In 1995, he relocated to Honolulu and pioneered New Hope Oahu. Within ten years, NHO was listed among the ten most innovative churches in America. In addition, Outreach Magazine listed them as one of the “top five churches to learn from.” New Hope has seen over 250,000 first-time decisions in Hawaii since its inception and has planted 153 churches on the West Coast and in Okinawa, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Myanmar, and Australia.

Author

Wayne is an author of over 14 books and speaks globally on ministry and leadership. He also designed the Life Journal and the SOAP method for daily devotions used by thousands of churches. He is also the general editor of the LifeConnect Study Bible.

Husband and Father

Wayne and his wife, Anna, are approaching 50 years of marriage. They have three married children (Amy Hisaoka, Aaron Cordeiro, and Abigail Rivest) and nine grandchildren. His hobbies include music, reading, golf, pickleball, and ho

Wayne Cordeiro

Wayne Cordeiro is the founding pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii; one of the nation’s fastest growing churches with over 14,000 in weekend attendance. New Hope is also listed as one of the top ten most innovative churches in America with over 3000 attending services each week via the Internet. New Hope has seen over 53,000 first time decisions in Hawaii since its inception 26 years ago.

Wayne is a church planter at heart with over 105 churches planted in the Pacific Rim and beyond, including Hawaii, Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, the Philippines, Japan, Australia and Myanmar. He is also a trainer of leaders as chancellor over the consortium of Pacific Rim Christian Colleges with locations in Hawaii, Oregon, Myanmar, and Tokyo training emerging leaders from around the world.

He has authored nine books, including Doing Church as a Team, Dream Releasers, The Seven Rules of Success, The Divine Mentor, Leading On Empty and The Encore Church.

Pastor Wayne and his wife, Anna, have three married children and have three grandchildren. His

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