History
In September 1995, Pastor Wayne Cordeiro founded New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawai'i. He brought with him a passion to develop leaders for the church and decided to found the School of Church Planters. In 1998, SCP was established as Pacific Rim Bible Institute. The school was formally incorporated in the State of Hawai'i as a college in 2001. Pacific Rim Bible College reached a significant milestone in 2005 with the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE), receiving Applicant status. In 2009, the College received Candidate status and a couple of months after the change in status with accreditation, changed the name of the institution to Pacific Rim Christian College. In 2015 we emerged as Pacific Rim Christian University with independent accreditation and an eye towards the future and enlarging that original calling of the school to equip ministers and artists within the Pacific Rim to change the world for Christ.
Specialties
Pacific Rim Christian University, an institution of higher education, prepares academically and spiritually integrated servant leaders to become independent thinkers who are passionate innovators for Christ and His world. We are passionate about the growth and formation of our students - spiritually, academically, ministerially, and in character. We endeavor to provide a college experience that will elevate a person to his or her God-given potential. The College not only allows a student to learn how to minister effectively in a safe, friendly, and encouraging environment, but to also discover the One we serve, the world we live in, and the people we live alongside. We realize the value and importance of an experience that is both corporate and individual. We unified, one in the Body of Christ, yet we are individuals, distinct and diverse, expressing, creating, and ministering in our unique calling, skills, giftings, abilities, and languages. We encourage our students to discuss, to think with an open and discerning mind, and to wrestle with and grow in their own understanding of God, the changing times and cultures, and themselves.