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Hallowell, Jay and Amor

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      • Haag, Mary
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      • Holley, Yvonne
      • Huh, Chiyon
      • Jang, Jay and Heeyoung
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      • Kovach, Kurt and Sally
      • Kuroda, Setsu

Jay and Amor Hallowell

Missionaries to the Philippines

Jay began life on a farm in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and Amor in Manila, Philippines. As a student at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, Jay helped pioneer an InterVarsity 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.

Amor had come to know the Lord through the high school ministry of IVCF in Luzon. After four years of student leadership at the University of the Philippines in Baguio, where she earned her BA in hunanities, 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.

Jay and Amor were married August 6, 1988 in Denver, where Jay had recently finished a Master of Divinity program at Denver Seminary and where he served as outreach coordinator of their church, First Denver Friends Church. During that time Jay was also recorded (ordained) as a Friends minister.

In January 1990 the Hallowells joined OMF and were assigned to the Philippines. They spent the first three and a half years on loan to IVCF, mostly in Manila. Then, from 1993 to 1999 they helped more than 200 long- and short-term missionaries adjust to culture, learn language and become effective in reaching Filipinos of at least eleven language groups.

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, teacher and missionaries in order to reach the unreached in Asia (and beyond) and thus to bring glory to God.

Jay is teaching hermeneutics (Bible study), New Testament and missions and is mentoring students at the Biblical Seminary of the Philippines (BSOP). BSOP focuses on reaching the Chinese in the Philippines and Mainland China. Jay and Amor live in an apartment on the campus of BSOP, which is in Metro Manila.

Amor teaches 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 has been invited to teach Christian educaiton at BSOP in the future.

Now on home assignment in the USA, they plan to return to teaching and mentoring Asian seminary students in the Philippines in May 2007, just in time for the new academic year that begins in June.

Check out Jay and Amor's webpage: www.bsop.ph/faculty/hallowell