tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17572663588310678082024-03-14T03:10:02.148+07:00Asia NowAddressing issues of poverty, exploitation, child protection, education, aid, and humanitarian relief efforts in Asia.James Michael Hankinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378939381828949757noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757266358831067808.post-47271219223101951722012-02-12T09:41:00.004+07:002012-02-12T09:41:43.896+07:00Visit to Myanmar (formerly Burma)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;">I spent the last five days visiting World Vision projects in rural areas of Myanmar and was amazed at the warmth and hospitality with which we were received in each of the villages we visited. The goal of the trip was to meet with the Area Development Project (ADP) teams providing support to these villages to better understand their work environments, challenges, successes, and ways to best support them. From the capital city of Yangon we took a 1 hour flight to Bagan, then a two hour drive to the ADP office. The villages we visited were yet another 2 1/2 hours away in very remote areas and we needed special visas, 4-wheel drive, and government accompaniment to visit – this created long days but we were rewarded with rich experiences and the opportunity to see and hear in person testimonies of improved health and well-being as a result of several projects that are under way in the villages. The WV facilitated projects include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Food and Water Security</b>: Providing landscape and conservation principles for water security in dry and drought areas. Sharing best practices in food (agriculture and livestock) production and sustainability</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Health and Nutrition: </b>Providing instruction on nutrition and maternal health principles such as healthy diet during pregnancy, exclusive breast feeding, and pre-natal and post-natal care. One woman shared that her older children get sick more often than the younger children who benefited from the health training and practices. The younger children maintain healthier weight (more weight), do better in school, and are overall healthier. HIV/AIDS awareness, and reproductive health and family planning are also saving lives and fewer deaths related to child delivery are occurring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Early Childhood Development:</b> Early childhood development programs help prepare children for school and provide important life skills related to nutrition, behavior, and learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Savings and Loan:</b> Two of the villages we visited had established a savings and loan program amongst themselves. Each month the participants meet to make deposits into the common fund. Pass books are maintained and interest is accrued. Loans are available from the common fund as well, at a low interest rate. The implementation of programs like these helps remove dependence on high interest money lenders and provides long term stability to the people of the village.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hospital:</b> A hospital is under construction that is being 100% funded by the people in the village. They receive official support through well priced materials and will also receive official support through staffing of doctors and nurses once the facility is completed. This is not a World Vision project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Reforestation:</b> WV helped provide training on growing techniques that help conserve water. The nursery we visited had several thousand plants and trees planted in small plastic bags and meticulously cared for by people in the village. After 6 months the saplings will be sold for reforestation purposes. This provides ongoing financial and environmental support. I learned that 7 eucalyptus trees grown for 7 years produce enough wood to build one house. The nursery and reforestation project provide long-term sustainability for the village and the surrounding land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My heart goes out in gratitude to all of the people we met and for the warmth and loving communal experience they live and shared. I am very happy to see the WV projects having a significant and measurable favorable impact to health and economic sustainability, and also pray the way of life I observed will be preserved as there was much joy and strong sense of community displayed throughout our trip. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Other notes:</b> The chalk you see on kids and some adults faces is called Thanaka and is a sunscreen worn nearly all the time by children and women. It is made form the ground bark of the sandalwood tree. The traditional and standard dress for men and women is long sarong-like wraps of silk, cotton, or silk-cotton blend, called a longyi. Despite being in an extremely dry and dusty region of Myanmar the villages are exceptionally clean and orderly. Work duties are shared between families and between men and women. The drought like conditions create water and food security issues, which have been aided greatly by the improvements to water retention at the main water pond, improved technologies for growing, and increased health and yield from livestock. In the villages we visited the main sources of livelihood were agriculture, weaving, and casual labor.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">WV facilitation of a community planning session scheduling for a full calendar year</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Knife sharpenin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ADP Manager Kai Kai</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silk weaving</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drying out husks for next years silk production</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The flood waters in Thailand have been clearing but even
months after the flooding began many neighborhoods are still under water and
people are forced either into alternate locations or up to the second floor if they have one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I joined the Bangkok Thai Ekachai church in
flood response in Nonthuburi, Northeast of Bangkok and was again amazed at the
resilience of the people I encountered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wading through water between calf and just above knee high we went house
to house bringing welcomed care kits with food, water, and hygiene and sanitary
products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Even as the flood water recedes the real work and impacts of
the flooding is just beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
over 1/3 of the country directly affected by the flood the scope and magnitude
is staggering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some schools have been
closed for more that 18 weeks – those of you in education can imagine how hard
it would be to make up 18 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In rural
areas especially this creates great risk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In rural communities kids often don’t continue past primary school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one community 39 primary schools feed into
just one high school and 3 vocational schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keeping kids in school not only increases their education it provides
safety from exploitation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following the
floods many rural families have lost their livelihoods. In many cases farmland
is mortgaged each year and paid for by the harvest. There will be no harvest
this year so people may lose their land. With parents out of work and children
out of school there is an increased risk of exploitation by traffickers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The land will actually become more fertile in
a year or two following the flood, but without intervention many will return to
work their former land as wage earners. There are many opportunities for
advocacy, community education, and vocational training to help the more than 2
million people who have been displaced as a result of these floods.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ekachai Church Team Members </div>
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Multiple Generations from Ekachai Church </div>
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This Soi (street) gets deeper the further down you walk or boat.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since joining World Vision I’ve had many incredible
experiences and opportunities to learn more about the state of developing
countries and least developed populations.
Of these experiences the one that stands out the most is a visit to the
Van Yen Area Development (ADP) in Vietnam about 5 ½ hours north of Hanoi. The
Van Yen district has a population of approximately 116,000 people. I took the picture at the top of this blog
site not far from this ADP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">ADP’s are the name given by WV to community transformation
efforts in which WV works with local communities for up to 15 years to address
needs related to poverty, health, education, and child well- being. There are
36 ADPs in Vietnam and over 1800 ADPs in 60 countries served by World Vision.
Ideally the projects are staffed with people local to the area or country,
although the difficulty of accomplishing this increases as the remoteness and
poverty level increases. The teams of 5-15 that do staff the projects assume
significant responsibilities and personal burdens as they are usually separated
from their families, at least during the week, and may have long travel to work
through remote and sometimes dangerous access conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What made this visit so inspiring and confirming were the results
that this community has realized in the five years since the baseline was
established. A subset of the results the
Van Yen ADP team of seven, working closely with the community, reported from
2006-2010:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The poverty rate has been reduced from 33% to
11% (26% adjusted for inflation)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The livelihood development efforts have provided
new techniques to farmers resulting in increased productivity and yield of
husbandry (285kg/person/yr to >415 kg/person/year)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been built as well as access roads and irrigation canals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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increased from 63% to 84%. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In mountainous areas, where schools and access
roads did not previously exist, day-boarding school enrollment increased from
0% to 65%. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Improvements in maternal well-being, child well-being,
accident preventions, and health education have also been significant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The community is mobilized and actively
participating in making these things happen.
In fact the ADP serves a facilitation and education role but it is the
community involvement that makes change sustainable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In 5 years this community has made measurable
differences that not only improve the quality of life but also save lives. Through
this work and these results I can see that issues related to poverty actually
can be addressed and eliminated. It’s
not an overnight process, but it possible within our lifetime and that, for me,
was a brand new and amazing realization. </span><br />
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Hanoi, Vietnam</div>
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ADP Manager Showing Communities on Map</div>
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North Vietnam </div>James Michael Hankinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378939381828949757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757266358831067808.post-90995930120183733082011-12-08T22:01:00.001+07:002011-12-08T22:13:33.968+07:00Backstory: Moving to Thailand<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last year at this time, almost to the day, I received the news that I had not been selected for the WV post in Panama. It was disappointing to say the least, as I had felt my prior experiences, including moving to Spain a few years out of college, had been preparing me for this role. World Vision did express interest in having me apply for the same role but serving a different region – East Asia based in Bangkok, Thailand, instead of Latin America/Caribbean based in Panama. I had never been to either location but somehow Panama felt like a local move (my sense of “local” has been warping for the last 20 years) and Thailand felt like the other side of the world (because it is!). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There was a feeling of calling that required my availability and responding I moved forward and began the interview process. By February I was in Bangkok for final face-to-face interviews. During this trip I met with strategic leaders for community transformation, advocacy, child health, poverty eradication, and anti-trafficking. I learned that 900 million of the world’s poor live in Asia, more than any other region in the world, including Africa, and that there was measurable evidence of progress to addressing and, possibly eliminating, many issues related to poverty, including poverty itself. It was inspiring and daunting, all at the same time. I'm not sure how to describe what I felt when the offer came through, but I realized the opportunity it represented and so after prayer and consultation with friends and family, I moved forward and by the first week of April I had relocated to Bangkok accepting the role of East Asia Director of People & Culture. For more on this region and the work I am involved in check out this site (it also has coverage on the flooding in Thailand). <a href="http://www.wvasiapacific.org/">www.wvasiapacific.org</a></span><br />
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life I realized that I would need to become conversant in an entirely new
field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While my past experience in
leadership, change management, operations, and human resources would be relevant
and applicable this was an entirely new landscape for me and I needed ways to
come up to speed quickly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was led to the Pepperdine University Graduate School of
Education and Psychology (<a href="http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/welcome/mission/">http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/welcome/mission/</a>)
where I discovered a Master’s Degree in Social Entrepreneurship and Change
program that seemed to be tailor made to meet the needs of my transition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was immediately interested, signed up for
an information session, and began the application process for the Spring 2011
Cohort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The program brochure <a href="http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/masters-social-entrepreneurship-and-change/content/sec-program-brochure.pdf">http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/masters-social-entrepreneurship-and-change/content/sec-program-brochure.pdf</a>
provides a great overview of the objectives and content of the program, and as
I am now finishing up my third term and preparing for my Global Change
Experience (see Champions Education Alliance page on this blog) I can attest to
the quality of the program, and the incredible value it is providing as I
continue my immersion into the field of Social Entrepreneurship and Change. </span><o:p></o:p></div>James Michael Hankinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378939381828949757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757266358831067808.post-54432550917506643762011-12-05T13:57:00.001+07:002011-12-05T14:08:32.208+07:00Backstory: World Vision International<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The vision and work of World Vision is both inspiring and aligned with my core values. Sometime in 2010 I began monitoring the World Vision employment website submitting one unanswered application for a program management role in Haiti and another for a role leading People & Culture (HR) for the Latin America and Caribbean Region, based in Panama City, Panama. Also around that time I was reading</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>The Hole in Our Gospel </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">by Richard Stearns the President of World Vision U.S. and found that the book provided exceptionally detailed information on the needs of the poorest of the poor and the hopeful yet inadequate response of individuals, organizations, and governments to address those needs. The interviews and candidate selection process was set to be completed just prior to Thanksgiving (2010) and I felt very good about the interviews, although I would not actually learn the outcome until the second week of December...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">World Vision is a Christian relief, development and
advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and
communities to overcome poverty and injustice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Inspired by our Christian values, we are dedicated to
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>James Michael Hankinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378939381828949757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757266358831067808.post-83488803846259928742011-12-05T13:32:00.001+07:002011-12-05T13:40:36.395+07:00Backstory - Beginning the Transition<br />
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Permanente in August 2010. Almost
immediately several opportunities presented themselves, most with lucrative
salaries and opportunities. A series of
conversations and interviews with Google ended in the recruiter’s conclusion
that I should probably work for a non-profit due to my desire to serve and time
allocation devoted to missions. A short term consulting assignment with the
Santa Rosa Community Health Centers (through Resources Global Professionals) was
especially fulfilling and I also began working on a change management book I
had set aside a few years back. While these opportunities were reassuring and genuinely
entertained, it was through prayer, not planning, that my next steps were
chartered. My attention was ultimately drawn
to two organizations that would offer an opportunity for immersion in the field
of social justice and humanitarian aid: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">World Vision International and Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Over the six months following The School of Nations I
participated in missions to the Amazon (June 2010) with Mike Silva International,
Indonesia (July/August 2010) with Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara and Revive
Indonesia, and again to Indonesia (October 2010) with Revive Indonesia. Whether
providing medical or dental clinics, or sharing and showing God’s love, I found
each trip reinforcing the call to help and refining and confirming ways in
which I could make a difference in the lives of people throughout the nations.
I was fortunate to be born into the wealthiest nation of all time in the course
of human history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was neither my right
nor my fault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is my privilege, and
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in
need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children,
let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 John 3: 17-18</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In December 2009, following the trip to Fiji, I enrolled in a newly developed
program sponsored by the same group (The Mission, Vacaville, CA). The School of
Nations evening program had ten students, and each week from January through
April, we studied a different region of the world. Each student would prepare
and present a five-minute presentation on a country within the given region for
that week. The weekly research, done mostly online and through multiple media
sources, was eye opening and humbling.
It again reminded me that there is no excuse for inaction, no excuse for
ignorance, no ability to say “I didn’t know”.
Each week we also hosted indigenous people or missionaries from a
country within the studied region and learned from first hand experience what
was happening in that country – areas of success and areas of need. I heard chilling first hand accounts of
ethnic cleansing in Croatia, starvation in Malawi, oppression in Romania, and
devastation in South Africa caused by Aids and lack of clean water. The reports were real-time, not historical
recounts from 50 – 100 years ago. Right
now. </span><o:p></o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This course and community provided an amazing heart broadening experience that helped
solidify my call to serve and informed my decision in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May 2010 to leave my executive post with Kaiser
Permanente to create more flexibility to pursue my passion to serve those in
need throughout the nations.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In October 2009 an opportunity was presented to participate
with another organization on a mission trip to Fiji. This trip was quite
different from the trip to Indonesia. We happened to be there during a two-week
national campaign to raise awareness to the social issues of gender inequality
and child abuse. The dynamics in the groups we were leading, the Tala Tala, who
were both the church leaders and village chiefs, confirmed what I was reading
in the papers in the areas of gender inequality and the importance of
addressing it for the stabilization and future of Fiji. This trip also provided additional insight to
the importance of respecting, and in some cases restoring, indigenous
culture. As in Indonesia the culture
supports community and sharing to a much greater extent than most Western
cultures. It was a reminder that providing aid or assistance to another culture
is a delicate venture. The West does not
have all of the answers and many of our ways are not only unappealing to other
cultures, they can create disharmony in well-balanced communities if not done
appropriately.</span></div>James Michael Hankinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378939381828949757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757266358831067808.post-24705616399628486012011-12-05T10:44:00.001+07:002011-12-05T10:54:52.383+07:00Backstory: Serving Through Short-Term Missions - Kupang, Indonesia<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In 2008 I felt a strong calling to service and international
missions that had been tugging at me for some time, increase to the point of
demanding action and I signed up for a mission trip to Kupang, Indonesia. What I experienced on that trip was truly
life altering and when I returned to from that trip I knew without a doubt that
a new season was opening and my calling was again being refined. On that trip
in July 2009, to Kupang, Indonesia, on the Island of Timor I was able to
experience, first hand, the love and similarities between people from distant
nations, as well as the stark differences in access to clean drinking water,
medical supplies and services, and shelter following devastating events such as
earthquakes and tsunamis. An entire people group and region of the world became
immediately real and tangible. It forever changed my life. I knew the time to make
a difference was now. I just wasn’t clear on how to do it. I did note that friends, family, and
neighbors were eager to hear about my trip. Colleagues I had never even had
lunch with invited me to their homes for dinner to hear about the trip. I shared
my experiences mostly through the photos I had taken, and found it to be a
great opportunity to expose people to the needs of others and to share my
faith. </span><o:p></o:p></div>James Michael Hankinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378939381828949757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757266358831067808.post-1782939850212746912011-12-05T10:33:00.000+07:002012-02-11T20:10:18.330+07:00Backstory: An Important Personal Question<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From 2002 to 2009 as I was maturing both as an individual
and in my faith, my worldview and life perspective began to change
significantly. Up to this time the full-page magazine ads and other reporting
on modern day genocide, ethnic cleansing, starvation, and human trafficking
were so far removed from my daily reality that I could see them yet still not
grasp the magnitude and realness of them. Over time, however, it became more
and more difficult to ignore or gloss over the harsh realities that people were
experiencing throughout the world. Documentaries, movies, and books, such as
Born into Brothels, Schindler’s List, and Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea,
kept the issue of ongoing social injustices visible. They also pointed out
something else – that individuals <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman Italic';">could</span></i>
make a difference. The concept is both
inspiring and condemning. If individuals
could make a difference, a real difference addressing grave social injustices,
then why wasn’t I? It’s a simple
question, and unfortunately too easy to answer with rationalizations. I had to change my question to “how can I use
my talents and abilities to reduce social injustices on a global basis?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>James Michael Hankinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378939381828949757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757266358831067808.post-80494672082848486732011-11-20T19:29:00.001+07:002012-02-11T20:11:17.469+07:00Introductory Blog - Backstory<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In early 2009 I became overwhelmingly aware of a profound calling on my life to serve God and to share God’s love with people on a global level. The platform for this work was not clear to me then, and in fact it is still being framed, but the calling was undeniable and I began preparing for a fundamental shift in my life’s focus and purpose. I soon found myself participating in a short-term mission trip to Indonesia. This life-changing trip in July 2009 revealed the power of God’s love, and although we had gone to bless the people of Indonesia, I believe that we received an even greater blessing from them. Later that year I joined a team traveling to Fiji. The country was in the midst of a government-sponsored campaign for awareness of gender inequality and child abuse and through a series of events it became clear that change in each of these areas of social injustice was both needed and possible. After returning from this trip I enrolled in the School of Nations, an intensive 4-month program that focused on different global regions each week and featured missionaries from around the world, sharing their stories and perspectives on the mission field. The first hand narratives and consistent themes of hardship and perseverance brought new perspective and seemed to make the world a little smaller. Over the next eight months, through mission trips, I visited the Amazon, returned two more times to Indonesia, and left my executive post with a large health care provider. I had heard and accepted a request to live a life worthy of the calling I had received and I placed my faith in God to guide my path forward.</span><br />
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