Jay & Amor Hallowell

Jay & Amor Hallowell

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  • OMF (U.S.)
  • Retiree Support
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Arrival in Philippines; Cancer updates: Leoh & Jay; Active Retirement

November 6, 2025

OMF Active Retirement: We continue to rejoice in God´s faithfulness in our first 1.5 years as "OMF Active Retirees."  We have enjoyed responding to invitations and opportunities by governance, mentoring, consulting, speaking/teaching, missions mobilization, serving, personal evangelism, hospitality, and prayer with assorted ministries and individuals face-to-face and/or virtually in the USA and/or the Philippines.  We are grateful for an interesting and meaningful retirement, even if we occasionally wish for a gentler pace.

Arrival in the Philippines: We arrived in the Philippines on October 29.  We hope to enjoy some relaxed time as retirees, see family, friends, and colleagues, volunteer gently with several ministries here, and continue to mentor leaders. May God give us the wisdom to respond appropriately to the invitations and opportunities He will bring in the four months we plan to be here.

Cancer Updates:

Our dear friend, colleague, and godchild, Leoh, passed away in August from his colon cancer.  Thank you for your prayers for him.  His wife and two children continue to hold on to the Lord’s faithfulness and to carry on without him.  Please pray for them.

Jay had his five-years-in-remission oncology check-up in August.  He was proclaimed healed from his cancer. 

We do feel the dissonance between Jay being declared healed from his cancer in August and Leoh passing away in August due to his cancer.  Why did God welcome Leoh first while making Jay wait until later?  We have no answers.  We continue to rest in the wisdom, grace, power, and choices of God.

Answered prayers: Thank you for your prayers for the Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines (IVCF-P) conference at which we spoke in July.  The IVCF-P alumni in North America who attended were encouraged and challenged.  We hosted Di Fernandez, the IVCF-P National Director.  She graciously described being with us as “like drinking from a refreshing fountain.”  Thank God!

Have a blessing-counting Thanksgiving, a Jesus-centered Christmas, and a hope-overflowing New Year!  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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