Pastor Mike Hsu is thirty-nine years old and has been married to his wife, Tanya, since 1995.  Together they have three children: Mia age eight; Isaac age six; and Calvin age five.  Mike came to know the Lord through the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ as a freshman at the University of Kansas.  Mike is also a graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, FL.

One of Mike’s great loves is reading.  Books that have impacted him recently are: 1) Deep Church, by Jim Belcher; 2) When Helping Hurts, by Fikkert and Corbett and 3) The Rebirth of Orthodoxy, by Thomas Oden.  Also, Mike is an avid Kansas Jayhawk basketball fan and can talk for hours about his team’s glorious runs in 1952, 1988 and 2008.  Mike is passionate about motorcycles (owns a Suzuki Boulevard s50), enjoys a fine handmade cigar on special occasions and loves animals.  The Hsus own a pet piranha named Gerhardus Vos and a cockapoo named Belle.  Perhaps the gift Mike enjoys the most in life is spending time with his young family.  He met his wife Tanya when they were both sixteen, has know her twenty-three years and been married to her fifteen of those years.  The Hsus are deeply grateful for their children as they believed at one time they would not be able to have biological children.

In his preaching ministry, Mike is most passionate about unearthing the heart and mind of God in Scripture and communicating that truth in a way that is both affirming as well as challenging to the Grace Chapel congregation.  The Cross his Savior has bore is Mike’s greatest passion in preaching as Mike is fully convinced that all of Scripture speaks to its centrality in all of life.  In terms of a sense of call to ministry, Mike loves the people of Grace Chapel, has a huge heart for the people of Haiti having traveled there on six different occasions, and Mike continues to grow in his appreciation for the Omaha tribal peoples, having spent the last three summers ministering among them.

During Mike’s journey with the Lord, there have been joys and sorrows, valleys and challenges but also tremendous blessings.  One of his favorite Scripture verses is Zephaniah 3:17: “The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”