September will meld into October as a lengthy ministry trip commences with yearly Navajo Pastor Training at Four Corners Native American Ministry in Arizona and New Mexico. From there Stan heads to North Carolina where he preaches in two separate churches for multi-day renewal services. He is home briefly before heading to Thailand for a teaching stint training missionaries with the international ministry Youth With a Mission.

In November, he will be speaking in Wellington, New Zealand at a Pacific Island Church Bible Workshop. In that venue, he will be joined by other international speakers in the week long event.

December finds Stan in attendance at Ambassadors For Christ Ministry Council meetings as well as visitation and speaking stops en route. He has various bookings to preach locally when in his home Hawaiian islands.

March-May 2008
Spring time will find N. Stan Hankins with a spring in his ministry step. Throughout the season, when in his home Hawaiian Islands, Stan has varied local speaking ministry. Early March takes him to Colorado for “Facilitators Training” and networking with others in the field of international pastors training. Late March squeezes in a quick sortie to New Zealand for Board meetings with UCB Pacific Partners, a Christian Radio and Discipleship ministry throughout the South Seas. As part of that journey, Stan visits the Kingdom of Tonga to relate directly with local ministry staff. In April, he commences a five city itinerary which concludes in Atlanta for Ministry Council meetings with Ambassadors For Christ. And finally most of May will find Stan in the Cook Islands where he will teach for two weeks at Takamoa Theological College and spend an additional week in ministry on the outer island of Mangaia.

Ministry Schedule May-July 2007

The phrase “Lazy Days of Summer” will not apply to ministry in upcoming months. First, Stan will be in Auckland, New Zealand in May. Located below the Equator, the season will be winter. Second, the calendar in country is full; no time to laze! Stan will speak in a week long multi-church spiritual life conference for Pacific Island immigrants. He will join an international team of speakers. The Salvation Army will host Stan on the North Shore of Auckland for two weekend speaking series surrounding afore mentioned conference. And finally, while in country, Stan will caucus with UCB Pacific Partners, a Christian radio discipleship ministry, for whom he sits on their Board of Directors.

In July, Stan will fulfill his yearly teaching stint at Takamoa Theological College in the South Sea nation, the Cook Islands. Access in the historic denomination, The Cook Island Christian Church, by folks outside the country and denomination is a unique privilege. God has granted Stan an enduring pass to move and minister freely. During his stay, he will minister in various local churches.

From May through July, Stan will have diverse local ministry in a variety of churches and denominations when home in the Hawaiian Islands. There will be just enough time to catch breath to prepare for an August itinerary in Costa Rica, Central America.

Finishing Strong!

The last part of the year finds N. Stan Hankins firing on all cylinders in service for Christ. In November, he will be speaking and singing at a Missions Conference in Worland Wyoming at Zion Church. Different participants will represent various mission ministries. The Lord has used Stan to be the common connection between them all as they meet at this dynamic church served by pastor Bud Surles.

While in the west, Stan will make three ministry stops across the state of Colorado. Heading east, he is slated to join his wife Brenda in Washington D.C., where Stan has various speaking commitments, including preaching at Maple Springs Baptist Church in Maryland.

December’s docket includes Ministry Council and Board meetings in Atlanta. On the way home, Stan will make three ministry stops up and down the California coast. Typically, local ministry in the Hawaiian Islands is requested during the holidays.

Looking to the New Year, numerous exciting ministry opportunities are already in place throughout the islands, across the nation, and around the world!

July 2006 Update

N. Stan Hankins will spend July in three nations in the Southern Hemisphere. Commencing in the Fiji Islands, he will be featured speaker at two Men’s Conferences on separate islands for the Salvation Army. In the interval, he will teach at their Officer Training Academy in Suva.

Transiting to Vanautu (formerly named New Hebrides) he will be joined by AFC colleague Cathy Kreis and Pastor Kevin Eshlemen and Brian Lough from the United States. While in Vanuatu, outreach ministry will occur on outer islands. Ministry in the country will culminate with an Evangelistic Crusade and Pastors Training Conference in Luganville, on the island of Espiritu Santo. In the latter, other church mission teams from the Hawaiian Islands will join for a combined effort!

The team then heads to New Zealand where there will be networking and preaching in two separate churches.

In September, following ministry in his home area, Stan will be speaking in various U.S. mainland venues ranging from the midwest and southeast, culminating with return work on the Navajo Reservation in the southwest.

Feb. & March Update

N. Stan Hankins will embark upon a February and March ministry itinerary commencing in Central America and concluding in Middle America.  AFC colleague Roger Marini and Stan will be joined by Pastor Bud Surles of Wyoming for eleven days of Pastors Training, Festival Preaching meetings, and church services in El Salvador and Guatemala.

Immediately Stan will transit to southern Indiana where he speaks in a series of Spiritual Renewal meetings in the Washington United Methodist Church.  That is followed a few days later in a nearby community by an Evangelism/Church Growth workshop for the Lincolnland Association of the United Church of Christ. 

In early April Stan will serve as resource speaker for the international Staff Retreat of Pacific Partners Ministry in New Zealand.  This event brings together local ministry personnel serving in Christian radio and discipleship based in numerous Pacific Island nations.