Dr. Chuck Missler

Founder, Koinonia House & Koinonia Institute  |  Bible Teacher, Author, and Engineer

Biographical Overview

Charles W. “Chuck” Missler (May 28, 1934 – May 1, 2018) was an American Bible teacher, author, and engineer-businessman who described his life as two full careers in one: roughly three decades in aerospace, computing, and corporate leadership, followed by more than forty years teaching and writing on Scripture, biblical prophecy, and the integration of the Bible with science and history. He is the founder of Koinonia House, the teaching ministry he and his wife, Nancy, established in 1973, and later of the Koinonia Institute, its more structured teaching and discipleship arm.

Education & Formation

Missler received a Congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, graduating with honors in 1956 and receiving his commission in the U.S. Air Force; he went on to serve as Branch Chief of the Department of Guided Missiles at Lowry Air Force Base. He completed a Master of Science in Engineering at UCLA, with additional postgraduate study in applied mathematics, advanced statistics, and information sciences, and later earned a Ph.D. from Louisiana Baptist University. Alongside his corporate career, he taught a weekly Bible study in informal affiliation with Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California, for roughly twenty years — the foundation of his later full-time teaching ministry.

Ministry & Professional History

Missler’s business career spanned roughly thirty years and included service on the boards of more than a dozen public companies, as chairman and chief executive of several, including Western Digital (from 1977) and Helionetics (from 1983). His civilian career began as a systems engineer at TRW and a senior analyst role serving the intelligence community and the Department of Defense, followed by a senior management position at Ford Motor Company, where he established the company’s first international industrial computer network in 1966. He later founded his own computer networking company, subsequently acquired by Automatic Data Processing, and served as a consultant to Rockwell International’s board on corporate acquisitions. Following the conclusion of his corporate career in the early 1990s, Missler devoted himself full-time to Koinonia House, expanding it from a regional Bible-study tape ministry into a nationally and internationally distributed teaching, publishing, and broadcast ministry. After an earthquake destroyed the Misslers’ home in Big Bear, California, in 1992, Koinonia House relocated to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, which served as its headquarters for decades.

Fields of Study & Expertise

Missler’s teaching centered on the integration of Scripture with science, history, and Bible prophecy, along with apologetics, biblical typology, and verse-by-verse expository study. He was widely known for his flagship survey course Learn the Bible in 24 Hours and for 66/40, a teaching series moving verse-by-verse through all sixty-six books of the Bible in forty lessons. Drawing on his technology background, he was also an early and outspoken voice connecting current events to Bible prophecy discussions, notably in bringing the Year 2000 (Y2K) computer bug to the attention of Christian audiences.

Publications & Media

Missler authored or co-authored numerous books, including Learn the Bible in 24 Hours, Prophecy 20/20: Profiling the Future Through the Lens of Scripture, Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon, Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages from the Edge of Eternity, and Hidden Treasures in the Biblical Text, along with, co-written with his wife Nancy, Why Should I Be the First to Change? and The Kingdom, Power, & Glory: The Overcomer’s Handbook. He co-authored The Magog Invasion with Hal Lindsey and a study of the Y2K crisis with John Ankerberg. Koinonia House produced decades of recorded teaching across cassette tape, VCR, CD, and later digital and streaming formats, alongside Personal Update, its ongoing newsletter and magazine.

Recognition & Reach

Over more than forty years of teaching, Missler’s recorded studies were distributed to audiences worldwide across successive generations of media formats, and Koinonia House continues to make his teaching catalog available through Koinonia House TV and its on-demand library. He was a frequent conference and broadcast guest on subjects of Bible prophecy and Christian apologetics, and is remembered as a foundational voice in the modern biblical prophecy teaching movement.

Personal

Missler married Nancy Missler in 1957; the couple had two sons, Charles (“Chip”) and Mark, and two daughters, Lisa Bright and Meshell Missler, along with eight grandchildren. Nancy Missler died in 2015. Chuck Missler died at his home in Reporoa, New Zealand, in May 2018, at age eighty-three.