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Jack Hakimian is a family man, entrepreneur, pastoral counselor, evangelist, and bible teacher.
Jack Hakimian brings a combination of cultural diversity, scholarship, street knowledge and compassion to his work.
His greatest asset is his faith and dependency on the Lord Jesus Christ who saved his life while serving time in the L.A. County Jail in 1992.
Jack has a Master's Degree in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and a B.A. in Pastoral and Biblical Studies from Life Pacific College.
He serves as a Pastoral Christian Counselor with Impact Family Christian Counseling Network.
He founded and operates Global Presence Enterprises (Business and Marketing Development). Global Presence Network (Nonprofit Tech Education), Global Presence Solutions (Virtual Work From Home).
He has been doing cross-cultural community work since 1992 in the African, Latino, Anglo and Armenian communities of L.A. and Miami.
The diversity of education and experiences has made him uniquely qualified for urban multi-cultural service.
As a half Armenian and half Liberian immigrant, he fled Monrovia, Liberia Africa in 1979 due to civil war brought on by corruption in the government.
When he arrived in America he experienced a culture shock.
As a young boy, he was an extremely talented athlete and was being groomed to play college and professional football. Running the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds he was a star tailback.
But, as a result of a need to be accepted, during the ninth grade, he joined the Piru Blood street gang of L.A.
From ages 14-19 he was in and out of correctional institutions and spent a total of three years incarcerated.
At age eighteen, he was almost killed several times and served six months in the L.A. County jail for selling crack cocaine.
It was there that he had a life-changing experience with Jesus Christ and received a call to help others as a Kingdom servant.
700 Club captured and aired his testimony on national television.
With a newfound perspective on life, he reunited with his family and began to grow in his kingdom lifestyle as God began to reshape his perspective on family, society, and economics.
He went from a human-centered morality to a God-centered ethical viewpoint. He believes God has given to all humans basic laws of love to live by if we are to be "blessed" as individuals, families and a nation.
He went from a perspective that the government can solve our local problems to one that believes solutions are best found through family, church and local community forprofit and nonprofit leaders. Places where God can move in a direct way upon people's hearts and minds. We freedom can be modeled and taught experientially.
These kingdom views of personal rights, freedom of thought, family bonds, free-market enterprise and personal virtue founded on the responsibility to God and universal principles of truth embedded in the human heart (Romans 2:14-16) is what motivates his cultural commentary, counseling, evangelism, discipleship and kingdom activism.
His father is a businessman who escaped the war in Beirut, Lebanon, and Liberian coup d'état taught him to work hard and to appreciate the opportunities the U.S.A, has afforded his family.
The prosperity his immigrant family had achieved in just thirty years in America was a living example that in cooperation with God, hard work and self-discipline; financial success is possible.
During his early period of faith, Jack enrolled in college and later graduate school. While in Seminary he began to develop entrepreneurial skills in graphic design, print, web development, social media and church consulting.
Also, during this season he married Jhael Hakimian and together they raised four boys who are honors students in Miami-Dade gifted programs. Follow her blog www.jhael.com.
Jhael has a B.S. in Education from Miami-Dade College and is actively engaged in the nonprofit sector fighting for economic freedom and prosperity. As she engages South Florida in Christian Counseling ministry her ambition is to see families made whole through the Word of God.
Together Jack and Jhael facilitate personal counseling sessions, discipleship small groups, and workshops on Holistic Christian Growth.
They believe the family, church and private sector enterprise is the key to solving the social ills of our society. God is the only person who can forgive sins and change hearts!
Clearly, it is this rich tapestry of not only background and education, but also experiences, failures, and triumphs that have shaped and prepared Jack for the special task of mobilizing diverse leaders to bring about effective change, one community, and one person at a time.