Church pastor Alex Michel, 51, dies after remaining struck by motorcycle

Alex Michel, a pastor at Experience Church in Honolulu, died Sunday morning of accidents sustained when he was struck by an electric powered motorcycle in the Ewa Seashore space Friday morning.

The Honolulu Police Section noted that at about 10:08 a.m., a 51-calendar year-outdated person was jogging on Fort Weaver Road when he was strike by a Sur-Ron electric powered filth bike ridden by a 20-calendar year-outdated man. The jogger was transported to an spot medical center where by he later on died.

In a mobile phone simply call Monday evening, Wayne Cordeiro, founder of the New Hope network of churches, which contains Come across, recognized Michel as the jogger and confirmed his death.

“He was liked so much,” Cor­deiro claimed.

“Alex had a fantastic spouse and children in his wife Jennifer (Canaya-Michel) and four youngsters,” he reported, “and he was just one of our most valued lecturers in New Hope’s Pacific Rim University, in which he mentored and suggested quite a few younger people who appeared up to him. He touched countless numbers of lives below in Hawaii and internationally.”

The reduction of Michel, Cordeiro additional, was “challenging to course of action,” as he was “such a big part of our life.”

Known as “the browsing pastor,” Michel ministered in a online video in which he compares browsing to dwelling a fulfilling, devout life.

Talking from Ala Moana
Regional Park, interspersed with footage of him executing bottom turns and off-the-lips on his shortboard, pulling into a barrel and exchanging happy greetings with other oceangoers, a smiling Michel compares a wave’s ability to that of God.

He urges folks to give up a compulsion to control, and alternatively let themselves abide by with the stream of the wave for a wonderful journey by way of lifetime.

On his Fb website page, the Los Angeles indigenous was lauded and commemorated as a devoted family members man and continuous supply of convenience and guidance to all who knew him.

“He (designed) absolutely everyone he met truly feel like the most essential human being in the home,” wrote Honolulu resident Rachel Morley, adding she observed Michel by possibility final 7 days in a parking lot.

“I was possessing a difficult day and somehow he explained to me particularly what I essential to listen to,” she wrote, “about how he experienced just read my new track and how a great deal he liked it.”

JonCyndi Burgess of Kailua remembered capturing a online video at New Hope Oahu in 2018 exactly where
Michel “led us through an authentic Passover Seder food, this abundant expression of the adore of God ending up in a dance.”

In a telephone call, Susan Nishida, a Honolulu internist who achieved Michel in an training boot camp 4 a long time in the past, reported his frequent cellphone phone calls had helped her.

“I wasn’t a member of the church, but he understood I was owning health troubles. He claimed he would pray for me, and it produced me sense much better,” Nishida stated.

“His effect has been unmeasurable,” Cordeiro said.