
ABOUT KING'S
King's Chapel Oʻahu is an extension campus of King's Cathedral & Chapels, a Pentecostal Christian church based in Maui, Hawaiʻi. King's Cathedral & Chapels has over 400 congregations worldwide that serves a variety of ethnic communities. We desire that every nation and tongue will come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior!
The miracle of King’s Chapel Oʻahu began when Dr. James and Colleen Marocco, senior pastors of King’s Cathedral Maui, walked on the property of the Niu Valley Center in East Honolulu in 1999. Making stops at what was then a Kentucky Fried Chicken & Times Supermarket, Dr. Marocco prayed, “Father, if you want me to build a church in East Honolulu, give us this property.”
After numerous financial miracles, God answered his prayer, and the Niu Valley Center was purchased. The Times Supermarket shut down and remodeling for a brand new church facility began in 2002. While the building was being reconstructed, a life group started in the Hawaiʻi Kai area which eventually grew and multiplied into a midweek church service at Niu Valley Middle School. At the time, Dr. Marocco and Pastor Colleen would fly weekly from Maui to minister to the growing congregation in East Honolulu.
In 2004, both midweek and Sunday services returned to the Niu Valley Center and took place at what was then called “The Upper Room”, the only 2-story building on the property at the time. Two years later, in 2006, the services were finally moved into the newly renovated building that is now the main campus for King's Chapel Oʻahu.
In 2011, God called Pastors Josh & Shannon Marocco from Maui to be the lead pastors over the Oʻahu campuses. Since then, King’s Chapel Oʻahu has experienced tremendous growth and has expanded to two extension campuses in both Windward and West Oʻahu as well as services for various ethnic congregations such as Filipino, Marshallese, Slavic, Spanish, & Hawaiian.

OUR STORY

OUR LEADERS
Josh and Shannon Marocco answered the call to ministry early in their youth. In 2011, Dr. James Marocco, senior pastor of King's Cathedral & Chapels, sent them to be site pastors at the King's Chapel Oʻahu campus. Since then, a movement of Christ which began in East Oʻahu spread to 5 extensions, numerous community outreach events, and summer programs for youth.
In addition, God has moved in such a way to call business and community leaders to join the vision of King’s Chapel to impact the State of Hawaiʻi through marketplace evangelism. Pastors Josh and Shannon’s fire for the Holy Spirit has not stopped since and they continue to live out their motto, “Speak Life” which communicates God-given potential in every person.
More recently, God has imparted a fresh vision to Pastor Josh for the church to impart strategic leadership principles that will effectively empower and equip leaders to connect people with their God-given purpose and see the local church meet the needs of the community.
Pastor Shannon has also taken steps of faith and put into action God’s call to begin Embrace Women’s Ministry which encourages women to embrace God, others, and their call by seeking Him wholeheartedly.
Building upon the rich heritage of faith and leadership, Pastors Josh and Shannon Marocco are believing God to continue in His great work.
OUR MISSION
"EXPERIENCE LIFE
with people, power, and purpose."
Our mission statement is inspired by John 10:10,
"I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."
As a church, our mission and hope is that we would corporately and individually experience abundant life by 1) being connected to God and His people, 2) demonstrating and functioning in His power, as well as 3) pursuing and fulfilling His purpose for His church and our individual lives. Our mission encompasses our core values and serves as a guide in every effort we pursue as a church.
OUR CORE VALUES

OUR VISION
ENLARGE >> STRETCH >> LENGTHEN >> STRENGTHEN
The vision for KC in this season is inspired by Isaiah 54:2:
“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes."
VISION 12-120
As we enlarge, stretch, lengthen, and strengthen, we are believing to have a total of 1,200 congregations ministering to 120,000 people worldwide by May 2025
OUR TEAM

MELANI AKUNA
Experience & Prayer Teams
Pastor Melani serves as the director over the Experience Team, Prayer Team, as well as Transformation Ministry.

JENNIFER JOAQUIN
Generations Team
Minister Jen serves as the director of the King's Kids Children's Ministry.

GABE & JET NELSON
Generations & Creative Team
Minister Gabe and his wife Jet serve as the directors over the King's Youth Ministry. Jet is also the director of King's School of the Arts.

ANDREW & JESSA PEARSON
Executive & Creative Team
Pastor Andrew serves as the Associate Pastor of King's Oʻahu. His wife, Minister Jessa, serves as the director of Photography & Graphics.

ELIJAH & PUA PERKINS
Creative Team
Minister Elijah serves as the Director of Media. His wife, Pua serves as the Corporate Webmaster.

MARGARET VESNEFSKI
Community Team
Minister Margaret serves as the director over the Niu Valley Community Teams including outreach, partnerships, as well as food distribution.

TONY CALVAN
Community Team
Minister Tony serves as a leader on the Community Team as the director of the Evangelism Ministry and all Food + Beverage affairs.

BRANDON & TRACIE MIGUEL
Administration/Next Steps Team
Brandon serves as the director over the Administration Team. His wife, Minister Tracie serves as the director over the Next Steps Team.

KENRIC ODANI
Life Groups Team
Minister Kenric serves as the director and coordinator over all King's Oʻahu Life Groups.

VIKTOR & TANYA PEKUN
Slavic Ministry
Pastor Viktor and his wife Minister Tanya serve as the directors over the Slavic congregation in Niu Valley & Kona.

MARK & CHARLENE SAGAPOLUTELE
Windward Campus
Pastor Mark and his wife, Minister Charlene serve as the directors of our Windward Campus in Kaneohe.

CHINTA & BELMA ZEPTY
Marshallese Ministry
Pastor Chinta and his wife Minister Belma are the directors over our Marshallese congregation in Niu Valley & Makaha.

WHAT WE BELIEVE
OUR FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS
STATEMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS
This Statement of Fundamental Truths contains the 16 doctrines of King's Cathedral & Chapels. These are non-negotiable tenets of faith to which all King's Cathedral and Chapel churches adhere. This Statement of Fundamental Truths is intended simply as a basis of fellowship among us (i.e., that we all speak the same thing, 1 Corinthians 1:10; Acts 2:42). This Statement of Faith does not cover all Biblical truth, only these fundamental doctrines. The phraseology employed in this statement is not inspired but the truth set forth, and is essential to the maintaining of a full-gospel ministry. This assembly accepts the Holy Scriptures as the revealed will of God, the all-sufficient rule of faith and practice, and for the purpose of maintaining general unity, adopts the Statement of Fundamental Truths. With the awareness that in the event of a controversy the Senior Pastoral Leadership of King’s Cathedral and Chapels will be the final authority on the Bible’s meaning and application for the Church.
01. The Scriptures Inspired
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The Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: 2 Timothy 3:15-17, 1 Thessalonians 2:1, 2 Peter 1:21
02. The One True God
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The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent “I AM,” the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 43:10, Matthew 28:19, Luke 3:22
03. The Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ
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The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. The scriptures declare:
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His virgin birth (Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:31,35)
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His sinless life (Hebrews 7:26, 1 Peter 2:22)
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His miracles (Acts 2:22, 10:38)
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His “substitutionary” work on the cross (I Corinthians 15:3, 2 Corinthians 5:21)
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His bodily resurrection from the dead (Matthew 28:6, Luke 24:39, I Cor. 15:4)
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His exaltation to the right hand of God (Acts 1:9,11, Acts 2:33, Philippians 2:9, Hebrews 1:3)
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: See above
04. The Fall of Man
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Man was created good and upright; for God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.” However, man, by voluntary transgression, fell and thereby ensured not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Genesis 1:26,27, Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:6, Romans 5:12-19
05. The Salvation of Man
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Man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
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Conditions of Salvation: Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God according to the hope of eternal life.
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Luke 24:47 John 3:3, Romans 10:13-15, Ephesians 2:8, Titus 2:11,, Titus 3:5-7.
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The Evidence of Salvation: The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit. The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness.
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Romans 8:16, Ephesians 4:24, Titus 2:12
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: See above
06. The Ordinances of the Church
Baptism in Water: The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded in the scriptures. All who repent and believe on Christ as Savior and Lord are to be baptized. Thus, they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness in life.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:16, Acts 10:47-48, Romans 6:4
Holy Communion: The Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements, bread and the fruit of the vine, is the symbol expressing our sharing the diving nature of our Lord Jesus Christ; a memorial of His suffering and death; and is enjoyed by all believers “till He comes!”
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: 2 Peter 1:4, 1 Corinthians 11:26
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: See above
07. The Baptism in the Holy Spirit
All believers are entitled to and should ardently accept and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Ghost and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church. With it comes the endowment of power for life and service, the bestowing of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4-8, I Corinthians 12:13-31
This experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth. With the baptism in the Holy Ghost come such experiences as an overflowing fullness of the Spirit, a deepened reverence for God, and intensified consecration to God and dedication to His work, and a more active love for Christ, for His Word and for the lost.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Acts 8:12-17, 10:14-16, 15:7-9; John 7:27-29, Acts 4:8, Acts 2:43, Hebrews 12:28, Acts 2:42, Mark 16:20
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Acts 8:12-17, 10:14-16, 15:7-9; John 7:27-29, Acts 4:8, Acts 2:43, Hebrews 12:28, Acts 2:42, Mark 16:20
08. The Evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit
The baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is witnessed by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives them utterance (Acts 2:4). The speaking in tongues in this instance is the same in essence as the gift of tongues (1 Corinthians 12:4-10, 28), but different in purpose and use.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: See above.
09. Sanctification
Sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil, and of dedication unto God.
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Romans 12:1-2, Hebrews 13:12, I Thessalonians 5:23.
The Scriptures teach a life of “holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14) By the power of the Holy Ghost we are able to obey the command: “Be ye holy, for I am holy.”
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: 1 Peter 1:15-16
Sanctification is realized in the believer by recognizing his identification with Christ in His death and resurrection, and by faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union, and by offering every faculty continually to be under the dominion of the Holy Spirit.
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Romans 6:1-11, 13; 8:1-2, 13; 1 Peter 1:5, Galatians 2:20; Philippians 2:12-13
One aspect of holiness is not doing what is evil.
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Galatians 5:19-21, I Corinthians 6:9-11.
Another aspect of holiness is seeing all human life as sacred and created by God in His image. The ramification of this truth is lived out in the following ways at King’s Cathedral and Chapels.
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Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage of condition from conception through natural death. We are therefore called to defend, protect and value all human life (Psalm 139).
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We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. (Genesis 1:26-27) Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person.
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We believe the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Genesis 2:18-25). We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (1 Corinthians 6:18, 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4).
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We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.
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We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexual behavior, bisexual conduct, beastiality, incest, and use of pornography) is sinful and offensive to God.
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Matthew 15:18-20; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; I Timothy 1:9-11
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We believe that in order to preserve the function and integrity of King’s Cathedral & Chapels as the local Body of Christ, and to provide a Biblical role model to the King’s Cathedral & Chapels members and the community, it is imperative that all persons employed by King’s Cathedral & Chapels in any capacity, or who are formal members must hold to the Biblical standard of holiness.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: See above.
10. The Church
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The Church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfillment of her great commission. Each believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of “the general assembly and Church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven.”
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Hebrews 12:23, Ephesians 1:22-23, 2:22
11. The Ministry
A divinely called and scriptural ordained ministry has been provided by our Lord for a two-fold purpose: The evangelization of the world, and the edifying of the Body of Christ.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Mark 16:15-20, Ephesians 4:1-13
12. Divine Healing
Divine healing is an integral part of the Gospel. Deliverance from sickness is provided for in the atonement and is the privilege of all believers.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Isaiah 53:4-5, Matthew 3:16-17, James 5:14-16
13. The Blessed Hope
The resurrection of those who have fallen asleep in Christ and their translation together with those who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord is the imminent and blessed hope of the Church.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Titus 2:13, Romans 3:23, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
14. The Millennial Reign of Christ
The “second coming” of Christ includes the rapture of the saints to reign on the earth for one thousand years.
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Zechariah 14:5, Matthew 24:27, 20, Revelation 1:7, 19:11-14, 20:1-6
This millennial reign will:
Bring the salvation of the nation of Israel
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Ezekiel 37:21-122, Zephaniah 3:19-20, Romans 11:26-27).
Bring the establishment of universal peace
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Isaiah 11:6-9, Psalm 72:3-8, Micah 4:3-4
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Titus 2:13, Romans 3:23, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
15. The Final Judgment
There will be a final judgment in which the wicked dead will be raised and judged according to their works. Whosoever is not found written in the Book of Life, together with the devil and his angels, the beast and the false prophet, will be consigned to everlasting punishment in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Matthew 25:46, Mark 9:43-48, Revelation 19:20, 20:11-15, 21:8
16. The New Heaven & The New Earth
We, according to His promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: 2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21:22