Pastor of Preaching and teaching

Jeremiah Zuo

“I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation.” Romans 1:16

Jeremiah serves HBC with a passion for careful, deliberate, and joyful exposition of God's Word.

Jeremiah grew up in Chicagoland and came to saving faith in his teen years. As a young adult Jeremiah felt a desire to serve the church full-time. His deep trust in the sufficiency of Scripture led him to spend his entire formal education pursuing the Bible. He holds a B.Th in Theology (Prairie College), an M.A. in Old Testament and Semitic Languages (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) and is finishing a Ph.D. in Biblical Hebrew (University of the Free State).

Jeremiah and his wife Lexi previously served as missionaries in Uganda, where in addition to itinerant preaching and teaching, Jeremiah served as a visiting lecturer teaching Greek, Hebrew, and The Gospels at Knox School of Theology (Mbale, Uganda). After returning to the U.S., Jeremiah served as a Pastor of Adult Education in Elgin, Il. He has also served as a visiting lecturer in Old Testament at the Nairobi Institute of Reformed Theology (Nairobi, Kenya).

Jeremiah and Lexi love raising their five children and spending time with their church family. Through a providential connection with Pastor Billy and after much prayer, the Zuo family moved to Honolulu to serve HBC in 2025.