About

Jack Hakimian mainly serves in multi-cultural urban settings. He seeks to tackle issues facing people in the urban context with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Since urban cities are diverse in cultural expression he finds great joy in having a multi-cultural approach to Biblical theology, disciple-making, and missions.

He has a special love for all cultures due to God's love for all humanity, having lived in multi-cultural settings like West Africa-Liberia, Los Angeles, Miami and being half Armenian and African himself.

He see's the international world in desperate need of the International Christ and Biblical solutions delivered with compassion and boldness in a local contextual manner.

Jack Hakimian is a kingdom-minded independent leader who is part of various evangelical networks but does not officially associate with any denomination.

Jack Hakimian was saved in the L.A. County jail and began attending chapel services led by Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, and Catholics. When he was released, he found fellowship and growth in Calvary Chapel Movement, Foursquare Gospel Denomination, Great Commission Baptist, and Armenian Evangelical Movement.

He greatly appreciates the many expressions of Christianity: (i.e., Eastern & Coptic Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Reformed, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Independents,  House-Church Movement, etc.).

He also believes these various movements must self-evaluate and critique their doctrines and practices in light of scripture and examples of Christ, Apostles, and early Christians.

Without constant self-evaluation and Spirit examination, these movements will die, distort the will of God and become displeasing to Christ the Lord of the Church!

His independence allows him to associate with like-minded Christian churches while maintaining freedom of thought on secondary matters and culturally contextual issues.

He is grateful for the freedom and unity the Universal Church-Body of Christ posses—an agreement built around the worship and obedience of Christ and Scripture.

He seeks to live, teach and defend the teachings of Jesus Christ for aspects of life to be lived by the power of the Holy Spirit.

His ultimate mission is the make disciples who make disciples of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:18-20)

Jack Hakimian is a nonpartisan independent Christian leader who holds no allegiance to any political parties. His allegiance is to God and the universal principles of freedom, justice, and love.

He aims to praise or critique any idea or policy that aligns itself with our U.S. Constitutional limits and freedoms, well as the social ethics of Jesus Christ. He believes a Judeo-Christian worldview and virtue leads to a more prosperous society.

He believes having an uncritical allegiance to denominations, political parties or cultural groups above an allegiance to God and the use of Scripture, Reason, Scientific Evidence, and Natural Law Philosophy clouds the judgments of Christians concerning the "Whole Counsel of God" and it's application for social life. All the above-mentioned disciplines (i.e. Theology, Science, etc) are complementary and not to be discarded in our observation of the world and our understanding of discerning the good.

ABOUT GOD
God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God. | Genesis 1:1,26,27; 3:22; Psalm 90:2; Matthew 28:19; 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Corinthians 13:14

ABOUT MAN
Man is made in the spiritual image of God, to be like Him in character. He is the supreme object of God’s creation. Although man has tremendous potential for good, he is marred by an attitude of disobedience toward God called sin. This attitude separates man from God. | Genesis 1:27; Psalm 8:3-6; Isaiah 53:6a; Romans 3:23; Isaiah 59:1,2

ABOUT ETERNITY
Man was created to exist forever. He will either exist eternally separated from God by sin, or in union with God through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separated from God is Hell. To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life. Heaven and Hell are places of eternal existence. | John 3:16; John 2:25; John 5:11-13; Romans 6:23; Revelation 20:15; 1 John 5:11-12; Matthew 25:31-46

ABOUT JESUS CHRIST
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father. Jesus lived a sinless human life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all men by dying on a cross. He arose from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven’s glory and will return again to earth to reign as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. | Matthew 1:22,23; Isaiah 9:6; John 1;1-5, 14:10-30; Hebrews 4:14,15; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4; Romans 1:3,4; Acts 1:9-11; I Timothy 6:14,15; Titus 2:13

ABOUT SALVATION
Salvation is a gift from God to man. Man can never make up for his sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting in Jesus Christ as God’s offer of forgiveness can man be saved from sin´s penalty. Eternal life begins the moment one receives Jesus Christ into his life by faith. | Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8,9; John 14:6, 1:12; Titus 3:5; Galatians 3:26; Romans 5:1

ABOUT ETERNAL SECURITY
Because God gives humans eternal life through faith Jesus Christ, the believer is secure in His salvation for eternity. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives this security. | John 10:29; II Timothy 1:12; Hebrews 7:25; 10:10,14; I Peter 1:3-5

ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit is equal with the Father and the Son as God. He is present in the world to make men aware of their need for Jesus Christ. He also lives in every Christian from the moment of salvation. He provides the Christian with power for living, understanding of spiritual truth, and guidance in doing what is right. The Christian seeks to live under His control daily. | II Corinthians 3:17; John 16:7-13, 14:16,17; Acts 1:8; I Corinthians 2:12, 3:16; Ephesians 1:13; Galatians 5:25; Ephesians 5:1

ABOUT THE BIBLE
The Bible is God´s word to all men. It was written by human authors, under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is the supreme source of truth for Christian beliefs and living. Because it is inspired by God, it is truth without any mixture of error. | II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:20,21; II Timothy 1:13; Psalm 119:105,160, 12:6; Proverbs 30:5 

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.