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Name: Joe Allen Hale |
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Age: 51 |
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Favorite Bible Verse:
Luke 6:38 "Give and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." |
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Married to : Annalee Carol (Greiman) Hale
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Children: Benjamin (26), married to Jessica, who both work at ICS Seoul. Daniel (25), is teaching English at ICS Seoul. Jed (22), is married to Whitney Rieves; Jed graduated from LU in May and Whitney is now a Junior at Liberty University. Wes (19), a freshman at Liberty University, Ben and Jess just gave the Hales their first grandchild, Gabriel Allen in June 2004.
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I'm Most Proud of: What I see my four sons becoming. |
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Prayer Requests: Pray for God’s wisdom in leading NICS/OASIS; pray for physical strength as I continue to live with diabetes; pray for God’s hand of blessing and grace on our family. Pray for wisdom as we continue to develop OASIS, an “added dimension” to this ministry.
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Work Background: Since my junior year in high school, I have helped small churches with their youth ministry, continuing to do so during college breaks, etc., even serving as a youth pastor during my senior year of college. I also worked my way through college working as a salesman for Sears, and also as a booking agent for one of Liberty University's singing teams. I have always felt called into youth ministry--the calling that led me initially to Korea to serve as a missionary to young people. Through the years and the development of NICS, I still feel very much that what we are doing is, in fact, youth ministry. As NICS expands around the world, the impact of the Gospel on young lives continues to expand that vision. |
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Colleges: After one year of attending Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, I transferred to Liberty University because of their youth ministries major. I graduated from the undergraduate program in 1977, and also completed my masters degree at LU in 1992. I received an honorary doctorate of humanities from Liberty in 1995. |
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Degrees:
B.S. in Pastor Studies--Youth Ministry Specialist from LU (1977).
M.A. in Church Growth from California Graduate School of Theology (1981).
M.A. in Cross-Cultural Studies from LU (1992).
D.Div. from Nashville Bible College (1995).
D.Hum. from LU (1995).
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Other Interests: I enjoy working in my yard, gardening, traveling.
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We have asked our NICS President to share thoughts from his heart with us. Joe cares deeply for every member of our NICS Family and would like to encourage each one. |
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| JOE HALE, NICS PRESIDENT |
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Straight from the President’s Pen…
Do Short-Termers Really Contribute? 
No matter what you think of the Mormon Church, I believe they have a fabulous plan when it comes to short-term service overseas. Can you imagine how much could be accomplished if somehow we could mobilize the Church so that our young people would all be encouraged to give at least two years in overseas service! What a difference it would make in them, not to mention the vast amount of work they could accomplish.
NICS has been blessed greatly by those who commit to serve for two years—an amount of time commonly referred to as a “short-term” commitment. I cannot say how grateful I am for these folks. Of course, any agency desiring to produce long-term results needs long-term people, but the fact is, many of these short-termers do, in fact, become long-term staff for various reasons.
Moving into a world of the unknown and full of uncertainties, it is indeed difficult for anyone to make a career decision on the front end—especially if there hasn’t even been a survey trip beforehand. A two-year commitment is long enough to experience and work through culture shock, field adjustments, ups-and-downs, successes and failures, etc., after which one can make a more informed decision regarding a longer stay. Our experience has been just that—our long-term, vocational people come mostly from those who are initially short-term people.
For those who complete their short-term commitment and return to their home country, they can feel that they have succeeded, contributed and learned much, becoming people much more “world” minded than those who have never had the cross-cultural living experience. These people will be enriched throughout their lives because of their experience.
So, when people ask me why we encourage overseas placement for so many short-termers in NICS, my reply is simple: “Because they are a major force for the cause for which we exist!” They’re some of my heroes!
--Joe Hale, President
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