Jay & Amor Hallowell

Jay & Amor Hallowell

  • Philippines
  • OMF (U.S.)
  • Retiree Support
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USA Feb to Sept 2025: Speaking, eldering, family, mentoring

July 11, 2025

We arrived safely in Colorado, USA as scheduled on February 25, 2025.  Logistically, this was one of our easiest returns to the USA ever.  Thank you, Lord!

We rejoice in answered prayers:

  1. Retreat speaking in April (Men) and May (Future Missionaries)

  2. A wonderful Hallowell family reunion in May

  3. Jay being a part-year member of our church’s Spiritual Life Committee (the elders)

  4. Growing friendships in our apartment building with both believers and not-yet-believers

  5. Jay in remission now for 4.5 years as of Feb. 2025.  His five-year tests are scheduled for August 2025.  If he is still in remission in August, he will be considered cured of his lymphoma.

  6. Continued mentoring face-to-face in the USA and remotely in the Philippines (to be reversed September 11, 2025 to February 23, 2026, when we are scheduled to be in the Philippines.)

Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines (IVCF-P) is coming to Colorado, USA in July 2025. 

Jay and Amor met in the 1980s through Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines (IVCF-P).  Our first OMF assignment in the 1990s was to be loaned as staff to IVCF-P.  We have understood the importance of reaching high school, college, and university students since we both were involved in IVCF as students in the 1970s.  Dugong IVCF kami.  Translation: we have IVCF in our blood.  We stay connected to IVCF-P.

IVCF-P is coming to Colorado, USA in July 2025.  There are IVCF-P alumni who have immigrated to the USA.  About 100 of them are having a conference in Estes Park, CO  USA on July 25-27.  They want to continue to faithfully pray for and support IVCF-P student work in the Philippines.  Please pray for us and the other speakers as we speak at this conference and the organizers as they lead it.  Please pray for the alumni to be encouraged and challenged.

Di Fernandez is the National Director of IVCF-P.  She, with her husband, Aldwin, are our long-term friends.  We will be hosting Di in our apartment before and after the conference.  Aldwin, alas, will not be with her.  Please pray that our place may be a home away from home for her while she is in Colorado.  May she connect well with the IVCF-P alumni.

The big prayer requests: Please ask God to reach high school and university students in the Philippines.  Pray that IVCF-P will continue to be His effective ambassadors to students there.

Items 3-6 above are prayer requests while we are in the USA. 

We have our tickets to be in the Philippines from September 11, 2025 until February 23, 2026. 

Because He died for the young and the not-so-young,

Jay and Amor

 

Updated July 11, 2025

 

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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    10 W Dry Creek Circle
    Littleton, CO 80120
  • Phone 800.422.5330
    303.730.4160

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