Grant and Jenna Hodgins

Grant Hodgins is the chief personnel officer of TWR, a role he assumed in February 2025. From the ministry’s international headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, he leads TWR’s global people strategy — recruitment, member care, leadership development, and the policies and practices that support staff and missionaries serving around the world.

Grant came to the work by an unusual route. He holds a Master of Science in mental health counseling from Fort Valley State University and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a minor in social work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He began his career on the clinical side — as a therapist, program manager and clinical supervisor working with at-risk youth and families across Georgia group homes and community programs.

A parallel gift for technology then became a second career. Grant trained formally for it, earning an associate degree in computer networking from Central Georgia Technical College and credentialing as a Microsoft Certified Professional. He spent more than a decade in information technology — as assistant director of IT at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth in Macon, Georgia, and then as network administrator at Guilford Child Development in Greensboro, North Carolina — building and securing the systems of organizations that serve vulnerable people. It was that skill set that opened the door to TWR: in 2014 he and his family moved to Guam, where he joined the ministry as a network administrator.

What followed was 11 years on Guam and a steady widening of responsibility: station director, then director of human resources for TWR Asia, then station director again — leading a multinational team broadcasting the gospel across Asia. The counseling training he thought he had left behind turned out to be the most useful thing he brought with him. That blend of counselor and administrator still shapes how he leads: he believes people are not a department but the ministry itself, and that caring well for cross-cultural workers is how the message keeps going out.

Grant is currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry in advanced biblical and theological studies at Shepherds Theological Seminary, with completion expected in 2027. He and his wife, Jenna, have two adult children, Rachel and Matthew. They attend Life Point Community Church. Grant is a woodworker, and he kept bees for five years on Guam.