Frank Cuozzo

It’s always a good thing to know that God is moving you. It was true for Frank Cuozzo. In 2017, God moved the widower to Hawaii from his native New Jersey to be the pastor of Bethel Bible Church in Wahiawa on Oahu.

Frank has a uniquely varied background. As a young chiropractor in Florida, Frank came to know Christ because of the persistence of a patient. After decades he sold his practice to go to seminary and train for the ministry. He had the unique opportunity to graduate with his Master’s degree alongside his son Dominick who had also earned his Master’s. God moved both Cuozzo men to pastor churches in New Jersey: Frank in the greater New York City area and Dominick in the garden-y area of the Garden State.

Frank and his first wife Margaret served in a small church with a more than 150 year history called New Durham Baptist Church where, if they looked hard enough, they could see the Empire State Building across the Hudson River. And then Margaret had a stroke. Frank did what medical professionals said he wouldn’t be able to do: he cared for Margaret himself in their parsonage for 5 years while he pastored the church. And then she passed away.

As a new widower, Frank visited his daughter who lives in Hawaii several times before Bethel Bible Church called him to be their pastor. He met and married his wife Terry. And after a few years, Dominick introduced him to Capitol Ministries. Through an ALEC conference in 2023, Frank had contact with a young state legislator in Honolulu’s Capitol–his insider. And in 2024, Frank met his now ministry partner Adriel Lam, and together they were able to have a Bible study in the Capitol for the whole 2025 legislative session. Frank also serves as CapMin’s Assistant Global Director for the South Pacific.

“I’d been told that you shouldn’t mix ministry and politics,” Frank said. “But Ralph Drollinger’s book All in Authority and CapMin’s training Terry and I were able to attend really shifted my mindset.” He looks forward to God’s leading as he and Adriel continue to meet with staffers and lawmakers in the legislative recess and plan for the upcoming legislative session.