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Here's what to expect at Fight Night Hawaii.

Fight Night Hawaii
June 18, 19 and 20, 2015
Kona, Honolulu and Wailuku

Register online today at www.himonline.org/fightnight

 Not that worm, THIS worm!

An Integrated Life: Seeking Wholeness in a Fractured World
This seminar for pastors & spouses will look at some of the divisions or splits that challenge many of us: internal vs. external; family vs. church/ministry; emotional vs. mental; person vs. role; confidence vs. humility; private vs. public. All of these areas of potential split make our lives, families, and ministries more difficult. How do we find integration that brings wholeness to ourselves, our families and those we serve?

Who should attend: church and ministry leaders and their spouses, pastors, church staff, full-time Christian workers, missionaries, staff serving in Christian organizations

Presenter: Mark Labberton
President of Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark was formerly Lloyd John Ogilvie associate professor of preaching and director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching at Fuller Seminary. He previously served 16 years as senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, CA. He has spoken for the Presbyterian Church (USA), InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the National Pastors Convention, International Justice Mission, and taught at New College Berkeley for Advanced Christian Studies. In 1982, he co-founded the Christian International Scholarship Foundation, which funds the advanced theological education of Christian leaders from the majority world, including executives of relief organizations, college and seminary faculty, and denomination presidents. He has worked closely with John Stott Ministries, which provides books, scholarships, and seminars for majority world pastors. He is a senior fellow at International Justice Mission. 
Mark’s books include Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today, The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor:Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus and The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice.

Click here to register for this one-time presentation. 
Registration deadline: March 9, 2015

HONOLULU Preconference sessions are part of the HONOLULU Conference, produced annually by Hawaiian Islands Ministries (HIM). Preconference sessions are not included in regular full-time HONOLULU Conference tickets and require separate registration.

For more information about the HONOLULU Conference or HIM visit us online at himonline.org

A Mini Spiritual Retreat | Philip Chircop, S.J.

Barefoot on Holy Ground: Sacred Necessities for Passionate Living
BAREFOOT we are in direct contact with the earth that holds us and sustains us. During this all-day session and mini spiritual retreat, I hope we will be “mightily inspired,” exploring a few practices that can help us experience the “life in abundance” (John 10:10) that Jesus promises. Embracing these sacred necessities we will hopefully move from the surface of things into the dark cave of the heart where real transformation happens. This session is about paying attention to the traces of God’s compassion and mercy, the echoes of God’s love, the sparks of the divine that we are soaked in every moment of our lives. It is all about the art of WAKING UP.

Who should attend: anyone wanting to discover, rediscover, or deepen their relationship with God and find the sacred in everyday life.

Presenter: Philip Chircop, S.J.
Philip, a jesuit priest, is an internationally known retreat master and public speaker. He is a native of the Mediterranean island of Malta presently working in Toronto, Canada. He is an artist at heart and madly in love with all things beautiful and soulful: music, painting, sculpture, photography, film, theatre, poetry, good company, good food, good wine and more. He strongly believes that beauty is a uniquely wonderful entry into the mystery of the God “whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.” God can indeed be sensed and experienced in all things if we have ears to hear and eyes to see, if we have the patience to have a long, loving look at the real that surrounds us.

Prior to coming to Toronto, Philip served as an associate pastor in a vibrant young parish on the Island of Malta, as a Prefect of Studies at the local Jesuit High school and as a chaplain at the State University of Malta. In Canada, Philip’s main ministry is in the field of spirituality. He travels widely to many countries to facilitate retreats, workshops and seminars on a variety of topics to a variety of groups from all walks of life. He is available for conferences, seminars, workshops and key-note addresses for churches, pastoral and parish councils, groups, religious congregations and businesses alike.

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Registration deadline: March 9, 2015

HONOLULU Preconference sessions are part of the HONOLULU Conference, produced annually by Hawaiian Islands Ministries (HIM). Preconference sessions are not included in regular full-time HONOLULU Conference tickets and require separate registration.

For more information about the HONOLULU Conference or HIM visit us online at himonline.org

Does God Care About My Work?

Session 1 - The Problem of Work
70% of people working are not engaged by the work they do and Christians are no exception. What are the problems we have with work? What are the specific problems that Christians have? Why do so many of us feel like second-class citizens in the Christian world? This first session will look at these issues and help us understand the issues surrounding the workplace.

Session 2 - God's Vision for Work
Does God have a specific purpose for work? Does God have a vision for work? Does God have roles for each of us to play? Is work a calling? Unless we understand God's vision for work, how can we fully engage in the workplace in a way that is consistent with His will for our lives? This session will look at what Scriptures has to say about God's basic vision for work so that we can be properly oriented in the marketplace.

Session 3 - How Should We Work?
Once we understand God's vision for work and our role in it, are there specific ways that God wants us to work? How does God evaluate our performance? How might Christians think differently about working with others? This session will highlight several Scriptural themes that will help you think about "how" we should work.

Session 4 - The Impact Of Work
Finally we will take time to look at the Impact of Work? How does work impact human flourishing? What benefits does it bring? How can work help us love our neighbor? Is work a platform for evangelism? How do we think about wealth and influence that work might bring?
Each session will comprise a prepared presentation and an expansive Q&A Session that will allow for plentiful interaction.

Who should attend: anyone seeking to find new value, meaning, purpose, and God’s presence in their work

Presenter: Andy Mills
Andy is primed and passionate about giving new value, meaning and purpose to WORK. Andy says, "Something is wrong: Christians are like everybody else in the work place. Work is utilitarian on the one hand and idolatry defining self-worth on the other. Neither end works. It does not bring shalom or peace. There's no vision for God nor the possibility that God cares."

Andy's background is The Workplace. His unique and extensive background includes leading one of the largest global information companies as CEO and board member of the Thomson Financial and Professional Publishing unit of The Thomson Corporation, which under his leadership grew revenue to exceed $3.5 billion. He has also provided key leadership to a variety of innovative non-profit organizations.

Andy's foundation, however, is Christ. Co-Chair of the Theology of Work Project, he speaks frequently on work and faith, devotes most of his time to Christian ministry as a missionary from Hope Christian Church in Winchester MA, as a senior fellow at The King’s College in New York City where he was previously president and chairman of the board and in active mentoring of men of all ages. He is a regular traveler to Africa where he is involved in economic development activities in the West Nile region of Uganda and is co-founder of the Mango Fund.

Andy received his BA from Oxford University and his MBA from Harvard University. Andy lives in Winchester, MA with his wife Gail of 31 years. They have two children, Victoria and Christopher, and as foster parents have welcomed more than 30 children into their family since 1999.

Click here to register! 
Registration deadline: March 9, 2015

HONOLULU Preconference sessions are part of the HONOLULU Conference, produced annually by Hawaiian Islands Ministries (HIM). Preconference sessions are not included in regular full-time HONOLULU Conference tickets and require separate registration.

For more information about the HONOLULU Conference or HIM visit us online at himonline.orgClick here to register! Registration deadline: March 9, 2015 HONOLULU Preconference sessions are part of the HONOLULU Conference, produced annually by Hawaiian Islands Ministries (HIM). Preconference sessions are not included in regular full-time HONOLULU Conference tickets and require separate registration. For more information about the HONOLULU Conference or HIM visit us online at himonline.org

Sex Trafficking: A look behind the numbers
This session will drill down beyond the staggering statistics of those being trafficked. You will learn the extent of sex trafficking worldwide and the impact on its victims and survivors. Anyone concerned about knowing more about and/or changing the status quo of human trafficking within our reach today should seriously consider attending this session. It will prepare you to step off the sidewalk as mere bystanders and take action in the streets, homes, hovels and hotels where injustice take place. Please take a look at this video:

NOW, learn about our presenters: Don and Bridget Brewster, founders of Agape International Ministries
Everything seemed eerily normal. Cambodian pastors from 13 different provinces assured Pastor Don Brewster everything was fine when he visited the country in 2005. Other than poverty, there didn’t seem to be any major problems in Cambodia.

Within two days of returning to the States, Don and his wife, Bridget, learned the horrible truth when Dateline NBC aired their first of many specials on an unthinkable reality: the trafficking of children for sex in Cambodia.

“The very children I held hands with and saw running in the streets were not just trying to survive poverty. Many were living in hell, enduring torture,” says Don. “I couldn’t believe it was right under my nose and I didn’t even know it.”

Far from hidden, the community of Svay Pak, in particular, is a notorious haven for international pedophiles where girls as young as 8 brazenly wave foreigners toward brothels and karaoke bars to purchase sex. These children were trafficked from Vietnam, kidnapped from rural communities, sold by impoverished family members or exploited by members of their community. Once a girl is controlled by a pimp or brothel owner, she is forced to sell herself up to 12 times a night.

UNICEF reports that across the world, there are over one million children entering the sex trade every year and that approximately 30 million children have lost their childhood through sexual exploitation over the past 30 years.(1) Hundreds of thousands of these children are in Cambodia, enduring what Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission (IJM) calls, “the ugliest, most preventable man-made disaster on the globe today.”

When facing the truth of this disaster in Cambodia, Bridget explains, “Our hearts broke realizing the largeness of the problem and we wanted to offer our help any way we could.” It was time to act.

After selling their home, quitting their jobs, conducting weeks of research and building a team, Don and Bridget along with a start-up team including James and Athena Pond and their three children, Ashley, Gabe and Alexis, moved to Cambodia and developed Agape International Missions (AIM).

Their first goal was to meet the greatest need they had seen; quality aftercare for rescued girls. “We learned that undercover operations that rescued girls and shut down brothels were no longer effective because there was nowhere for a rescued girl to go. She ended up in a cycle of hopelessness that put her right back in a brothel.”

AIM Restoration Home (ARH) opened in 2006 as a beautiful, safe haven for rescued girls to get the holistic rehabilitation they need to live full, healed lives. After just a year, they had 52 rescued girls on the road to recovery.

“One of our girls who had been through unthinkable things was healing so beautifully. She no longer believed she was worthless but knew she had value and a life ahead of her. I went to her home city, Svay Pak, and was walking around looking for a job and home for her reintegration, when a pimp who I recognized from undercover footage said he had hundreds of girls available and asked if I wanted to buy one,” recounts Don. “It was incredible. This was her neighborhood, where selling the innocence of children was acceptable. How on earth was I supposed to just throw my daughter back into that?”

Believing the best way to prevent trafficking to be protection from the community, Don and Bridget founded Rahab’s House, a Community Center in Svay Pak, in 2008. Here, the community receives healthcare, education, necessary items and a safe place for children to spend time. Most importantly, they build relationships with Christian Cambodians who teach the value of their children and how to protect them.

The results were unprecedented. “The transformation evident on those streets today is simply extraordinary,” says IJM’s president, Gary Haugen. “Rather than being peddled for rape, children are now accessing educational opportunities, health services and community building activities, from art to break dance, provided by Agape International Missions within the community. Their steadfast commitment to Svay Pak and its children has created a vibrant sense of hope, and brought life to a very dark place.”

Now with the goal to Fight Trafficking, Restore Victims and Transform Communities, AIM has expanded to multiple Rahab’s House community centers, a Lord’s Gym reaching pimps and traffickers, AIM Employment Center (AEC) giving young women a career in textiles, and a network of Cambodian Churches who are now educated about the issue they didn’t even see back in 2005. AIM equips churches to fight trafficking in Cambodia and now in the US with AIM Anti-Trafficking Training.

“Our goal is to defeat child sex trafficking. We will fight until we’re victorious,” says Don. “We need as many soldiers as we can get.” 

Click here to register! 
Registration deadline: March 9, 2015

HONOLULU Preconference sessions are part of the HONOLULU Conference, produced annually by Hawaiian Islands Ministries (HIM). Preconference sessions are not included in regular full-time HONOLULU Conference tickets and require separate registration.

For more information about the HONOLULU Conference or HIM visit us online at himonline.org