Joel Elies

Joel (right) is the Assistant Director of Doctoral Programs at Talbot School of Theology and the author of Christ-Centered Spirituality. He is from Hawaii where he served as pastor of Hope Chapel Honolulu, faculty at Bible Institute of Hawaii, and campus director for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries at University of Hawaii. He and his wife, Amy, have been married for 25 years and have four amazing boys. Joel's heart for the church is to see it filled with Biblically-faithful teaching, spiritually-formed disciples, and an acute awareness of the presence of God in our midst.