Our Formal Story

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=120 BGCOLOR="#FFCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0443f781egdyul.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><B>Proclaim His Praise in the Islands - the Hallowells</B></FONT> <B> </B><B>|    </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Proclaim His Praise in the Islands the "><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=360 BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Our Formal Story</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="746" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 241 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="057a8df0.jpg" border=0 width="168" height="223" ALT="Jay's baby picture" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="529"><div>      Jay began life on a farm near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. As a student at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, Jay helped pioneer an Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) chapter. After graduating in 1978 with a BS in Business Administration and Agriculture Business, he served as an IVCF staff worker in Kansas for five years. Concerned about the world's need for the gospel, Jay went to the Philippines to get both Bible training and missionary experience. In Manila he combined study for his Master of Theological Studies degree at Asian Theological Seminary with serving as a part-time worker with IVCF. During those years he got to know Amor, a fellow IVCF staff worker. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 233 WIDTH="206"><div>   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#009900" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="058dbd50.jpg" border=0 width="219" height="213" ALT="Amor's baby picture" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="529"><div>      Amor was born in Manila, Philippines and raised near the South China Sea in the province of La Union, She came to know the Lord through the high school ministry of IVCF in northern Luzon. After four years of student leadership at the University of the Philippines in Baguio, where she earned her BA in Humanities, she spent 13 fruitful years as an IVCF staff worker. A year at the Discipleship Training Center in Singapore capped her years of experience with formal theological training. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 110 WIDTH="206"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="110" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="206" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="529"><div>      Jay and Amor were married August 6, 1988 at <A HREF="http://www.denverfriends.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.denverfriends.org/"><U>First Denver Friends Church</U></A> (FDFC). Jay had recently finished a Master of Divinity program at Denver Seminary and served as outreach coordinator at FDFC. During that time Jay was also recorded (ordained) as a Friends minister. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 WIDTH="206"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="66" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="206" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="529"><div>      In January 1990, the Hallowells joined OMF and were assigned to the Philippines. They spent the first three and one half years on loan to IVCF, mostly in Manila. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 153 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="An Overview of the Impact of Five Years "><U><IMG SRC="056674d0.jpg" border=0 width="103" height="77" ALT="Click here to see a larger map" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> Click to see a larger map</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="529"><div>      Then, from 1993 to 1999 they helped more than 200 long and short term missionaries (with 99 children, from 15 countries, and serving with OMF and 24 other missions organizations) adjust to the culture, learn language, and become effective in reaching Filipinos of at least eleven language groups.  Please click on the map to the left to see where these missionaries have served or are now serving.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 110 WIDTH="206"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="110" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="206" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="529"><div>      In 2002, following study leave and home assignment in the USA, Jay and Amor began a new ministry of teaching and mentoring Asian seminary students to become pastors, teachers and missionaries in order to reach the unreached in Asia (and beyond) and thus to bring glory to God.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 370 WIDTH="206"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="370" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="206" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="529"><div>      Jay taught and is continuing to teach hermeneutics (Bible study), New Testament and missions and is mentoring students at the Biblical Seminary of the Philippines (BSOP).  Jay and Amor live in an apartment on the campus of BSOP, which is in Metro Manila. </div> <div>    Amor taught some courses on Christian education at the Asian Theological Seminary (ATS), also in Metro Manila.  ATS focuses on reaching Filipinos, though it also has a significant number of students from other parts of Asia. She mentors seminary students at both ATS and BSOP.  She will begin to teach Christian education at BSOP in September, 2007.  </div> <div>    Having finished an 11 month mobilization assignment in the USA, they returned to teaching and mentoring Asian seminary students in the Philippines in May 2007, just in time for the new academic year that began in June.</div> <div>   Their next mobilization assignment is scheduled to begin in May, 2011.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="206"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="23" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="206" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="529"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="23" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="529" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> by Jay and Amor Hallowell</div> <div> Updated: July 7, 2007</div> <div> --------------------------------- end of Hallowell content ----------------------------------------------</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>