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:
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Retreat speaking in April (Men) and May (Future Missionaries)
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A wonderful Hallowell family reunion in May
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Jay being a part-year member of our church’s Spiritual Life Committee (the elders)
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Growing friendships in our apartment building with both believers and not-yet-believers
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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.
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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