Heather Hawks is a career missionary having grown up as a missionary kid in Belgium where her parents produced children’s TV shows at International Media Ministries.  Heather has been involved in Children’s Ministry for 18 years. She traces her call to world missions back to when she received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as a child of eight years old. 

Heather is bold and adventuresome spending part of her Southeastern University education studying theology abroad at Oxford University in England.  Her passion for children has led her to swim with sharks and jump out of a perfectly good airplane while skydiving to raise funds for BGMC.

Heather will take her passion to the Northern Pacific Rim of Asia Pacific in Japan to promote children’s ministry by training leaders, establishing indigenous children’s ministries, and holding crusades to win kids to Christ. She will be partnering with Yokota.Church in the greater Tokyo area as a ministry base for training and reaching the children of Asia in her Tokyo NextGEN ministry.

Previous Ministry

Heather most recently served as the Assistant Children’s Pastor at Faith Assembly Orlando where she served as the Upper Elementary Pastor and the Girls Ministries Coordinator leading 30+ volunteers in ministry to 400 children each week.

Education

Heather earned her Bachelor of Science in Ministerial Leadership at Southeastern University in Lakeland and she studied theology abroad at Oxford University.