Pastor Bob became senior pastor at Kailua Church in July 2006. Prior to his return to the Islands he pastored the Living Hope Church of the Nazarene for 9 years in Thousand Oaks, CA. Pastor Bob and his wife Jude, first moved to the Islands in 1980 where he served as a youth pastor at the Kaneohe Church of the Nazarene, before being appointed to start the Paradise Park Church of the Nazarene on the Big Island. While in Paradise Park, he oversaw the construction and completion of the Church Sanctuary. In 1988 Pastor Bob and his family moved to Maui where he pastored the Kahului Church of the Nazarene for 7 years.
Bob graduated from Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho and has a Master's of Religious Education Degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary. It was while he was at Seminary that he met and fell in love with Jude Foerstel, a nursing student at Kansas University. They were married in 1977. Bob and Jude have 3 children: Daniel, Bryan and Greg. Jude has earned a doctorate from USC and is presently a professor of Nursing at the University of Hawaii.

Anne is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene and has served on staff as an Associate Pastor at the Kailua Church for 7 years. Anne has a masters degree in Counseling.
Anne was born and raised outside Kansas City, Kansas and came to Hawaii in 1994. She presently directs our Women's Recovery Group, leads various Bible studies and is available for family counseling.
Anne is a mother of two boys who reside in Arkansas.