Jay & Amor Hallowell

Jay & Amor Hallowell

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  • OMF (U.S.)
  • Retiree Support
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He is Gentle...

January 9, 2025

As OMF Active Retirees, we love having a gentle schedule.  We want to worship Jesus who said, “I am gentle” (Matt. 11:29), and become like him.  May we bear the Spiritual fruit of gentleness (Gal. 5:22-25).  The themes of gentle and gentleness are powerful and gentle words for us from God these days.  

Since arriving in the Philppines in September 2024, we have continued to mentor pastors, leaders, seminary professors, missionaries, and others in the Philippines.  Doing so face-to-face, in the same time zone, is great!  It has been good to catch up more with family.  A couple of projects have been finished in our condo unit.  A few remain.  We plan to spend a week in mid-January 2025 in Baguio City to see friends.  There we participate in a two-day reunion of the student ministry at Amor’s alma mater.  Plans are being made for a family event in late January.  Our schedule has been and will be, we pray, gentle, as the calendar counts down to February 25, when we go to the USA.

The logistics of splitting each year between the Philippines and the USA have taken more energy than we expected.  Overall, though, we sense God’s gentle blessings on His plans for us to divide each year between the USA and the Philippines.  We hope to continue in this plan.

We arrive in Denver, Lord willing, on February 25, as we wrote above.  After we get over jet lag, we plan to focus again on Denver and Colorado.  Church.  Our church’s network.  Friends.  Prayer partners.  Family.  We hope to add some nice touches to our apartment.  Routine medical & dental appointments are on the calendar.  Colorado parks and trails beckon.  We look forward to some gentle days. 

Then, Lord willing, in mid-September 2025, we will travel to the Philippines for about six months.

Because He is gentle, Jay and Amor

About This Project

Currently: 

As Active Retirees, we continue to relate to the next generations of Filipino church, parachurch, and mission leaders.  Amor does this by mentoring women.  Jay is consulted by leaders and mentors men.  We share God-given resources with them.  We get to see God using this to empower these leaders in their new or continuing ministries, to His glory.  As the Lord gives strength, we do this face-to-face about six months per year while living in the Philippines.  We then do it remotely while living in the USA the other six months.  

“Mentoring is a relational experience through which one person empowers another by sharing God-given resources.”  (Paul Stanley & Robert Clinton)

 

A look back:

Jay and Amor Hallowell have been members of OMF-International since 1990, serving in the Philippines.

From 2002 to 2014 Jay taught New Testament, Hermeneutics, Missions and other courses at the Biblical Seminary of the Philippines (BSOP) while Amor taught English and Christian Education. 

In 2014, Jay became the Field Director of the OMF Philippines Field, leading 75 missionaries.  Amor mentored a variety of ladies and helped new missionaries to learn language, culture, and world-view.

In March 2020, Jay was diagnosed with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.  His doctors ordered him to go to the USA for treatment.  He turned over his Field Director duties.  We were then able to travel to the USA just before Covid-19 travel restrictions began.  After six  grueling cycles of chemotherapy Jay was declared to be in remission in August 2020.  

While Covid-19 continued to be an issue in the Philippines and Jay continued to recover from the lymphoma and chemotherapy, we stayed in the USA.  While in the USA, Jay served as a consultant and a mentor to leaders in the Philippines.  Amor continued her ministry of mentoring female leaders.  Jay and Amor also served their home church in Denver in various ways as well as helping our church network with a church plant in northwest Denver.

We arrived in the Philippines on January 20, 2022.  We have a profound sense that God used our mentoring and consulting ministries in the Philippines to advance His kingdom and to bring Him glory.

We moved to the USA in October 2023 for a six-month OMF assignment to report to and to thank as many many prayer partners and supporters as we can. 

In April 2024, we transitioned out of OMF Active Member status to OMF Active Retiree status.  

Thank you for your continued support and prayers.

 

Last update of Project Text: July 9, 2024

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  • Website https://omf.org/us
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    10 W Dry Creek Circle
    Littleton, CO 80120
  • Phone 800.422.5330
    303.730.4160

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