FRAGRANCE OF HEART INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES (FOHIM), INC. 



Women With Integrity (WWI)

WWI is a ministry that ministers unto women from various socio-economical backgrounds to help them brake through obstacles, stagnations, hindrances, and spiritual disabilities that block them from rising up and fulfilling their divine purposes in their lives; to realize their potentials, talents, and divine calling in ministries; to activate their faith to seek God's plan, purpose, and will for their lives; and to raise up to become dynamic and powerful women of God who allow the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to operate in their lives. WWI also provides support to women who are in need of  crisis intervention, counseling, and referral services, as well as assist them during transitional phases. WWI aim is to bring about transformation in ever aspects of women and their families lives to help bring total wholeness in their physical, emotional, marital, financial, and spiritual wellbeing. WWI is committed to be a safe venue where women can always come to receive the help they need in order to bring about balance in their spiritual and physical status in life. This ministry is for women (18 years and older) who are hunger and thirsty to achieve God's devine will in their lives.

What WWI is About?

WWI sponsors enrichment programs that will foster physical, emotional, financial, relational, and spiritual wholeness in women’s lives.

WWI will help women develop their spiritual potential to walk in God’s divine purposes.

WWI will help women proclaim that through Jesus Christ: There is Comfort where there is sorrow; Hope where there is deception and lies; Healing where there is sickness; Peace where there is turmoil; and Faith where there is doubt.

Positive Men Promotion (PMP)

PMP is a Christ-centered ministry that will reinforce the positive attributes in our men. Through ministerial sessions (men's fellowship, prayer conferences, retreats, seminars, forums, etc.), men will be empowered to attain their divine potential in their families, churches, and their communities. Men will be empowered to become God fearing men who will raise up and become the spiritual leaders in their homes. The ultimate goal of PMP is the transformation of ordinary men into powerful men of God who will make positive impact in their world by carrying the flaming torch of the Holy Spirit and the gospel of Jesus Christ everywhere they go.

Through this ministry, men will formulate positive bonding with other men. They will become great men who will light the torches in their families, communities, and in their churches. Like the fire of burning coals, PMP will ignite the fire in the hearts of men to stir up the gift within them through the flame of the Holy Spirit. By this, men will be encouraged to stir up the gift of God which is in themselves (2 Tim. 1v.6). The aims of PMP are to help men achieve spiritual growth to their fullest potential and utilize their talents and time to make a positive impact in their families, communities, and churches. PMP will enable men to develop positive Men's Network and mentorship connections.

PMP is for men (18 years and up) who want to experience God's divine purposes manifest in their lives. There is no limit or restriction, as long as he knows his identity as being created as a man in God's image and likeness. PMP goal is to empower, affirm, and validate men's commitment to Christ, their families, their churches, and their communities.

How will PMP help men?

-- Affirm and validate men's commitments to Christ, their families, churches, and their communities.

-- Build positive communications and fellowships with like-minded men of God.

-- Promotes reconciliation and family bonding.

-- Entrust hope in the brokenness of their lives.

-- Empower them to achieve their ultimate spiritual potentials.

-- Build Godly characteristics and integrities to develop them into great men of God.

-- Affirm them as leaders in their families, communities, and societies.

-- Encourage emotional, compassionate, and social supports to foster growth among men in the Kingdom of God.

-- Empower men to proclaim the gospel in their actions, not just in words, by serving and loving people in Christ likeness.

-- Help men find their ultimate values and significance in their families, churches, and communities

-- Propel men to overcome obstacles that hinder their spiritual, marital, financial, and physical growth and prosperities.

-- Challenge men to channel their energies into practical Christian actions that foster personal and spiritual growth as leaders, husbands, fathers, and passionate disciples of Jesus Christ.

Golden Years  Ministry (GYM)

GYM aim is to minister the unconditional love of Christ to our elderly individuals by providing supports and assistance as deem necessary, through visitations, provision of care packages, lending an helping hand as needed, to foster emotional and spiritual wellbeing. GYM will facilitate special enrichment programs and events for our senior citizens to help stimulate spiritual, mental, and physical growth and wellness in the golden years.

Safe Haven 

This ministry caters to our pre-adolescents, teens and young adults, ages 13 through 25. This ministry reinforces positive self esteem and images by sponsoring educational awareness forums and discussions regarding street life, fads, crimes, gangs, self images, depression, etc., that are often experienced by this age group. Through this ministry, youths and young adults will develops their true identities in Christ, trust, and a sense of responsibility to themselves, their families, their churches, and their communities. The goal is to help youths and young adult avoid negative behaviors that could be detrimental to their lives, families, and divine destinies and purposes in God's Kingdom. As such, Safe Haven will sponsor youth forums, leadership initiatives, protégées mentorship, educational advancement and supports, and spiritual programs to build strong spiritual and moral ethics in youths and young adults to make a difference in their everyday world.

Safe Haven is a ministry that will empower youths and young adults to become vigilant soul winners for Christ, to reach out to peers who are struggling, hurting, or combating life's difficulties, and to help them transition into new lifestyles through the exhibition of unconditional love through Jesus Christ. Safe Haven goal is to validate and affirm the innate talents of youths and young adults through the sponsorship of talents, comedian, and spiritual enrichments programs that will foster their spiritual growth, as well as enable them to optimize their potentials in the Kingdom of God and to be a light in their schools and communities. 

Spiritual Enrichment Ministry (SEM)

This ministry focuses on prayer for healing and deliverance for wounded, broken, and hurting individuals. PUSH signifies Pray Until Something Happens in your life. Through SEM, individuals will develop their prayer lives as the Bible says: "men ought to always prayer; prayer without ceasing." Together as the body of Christ, we will encourage each other to PUSH through life's obstacles, hindrances, and spiritual warfares until we obtain deliverances and healing in our spirits, minds, bodies, and souls and for our families, friends and relatives. SEM will consists of intercessory prayer sessions, all night prayer vigil, prayer breakfasts, retreats, and annual prayer conference.

Hospitality & Community Outreach Ministry (HCOM)

We, at FOHIM, deeply desire to share the love of Christ with those in our communities. We want to make a difference, to be known as a loving, caring, and compassionate organization. We desire to exemplify the command of God's word: "Love thy neighbors as thyself." Our hope is to reach out into our communities to edify, encourage, and embrace individuals of all nationalities through the display of the unconditional love of Jesus Christ, by putting other first. Our commitments are to serve people faithfully and display the love of Christ boldly, as one in the body of Christ Jesus. The hope is to reach out to those individuals in our communities who are faced with challenges and to help them overcome such challenges and live their lives victoriously through a new life in Jesus Christ.

The community outreach ministry will provide FOHIM's volunteers with opportunities to serve our communities by supporting and/or sponsoring various outreach opportunities, ranging from but not limited to food bank, feeding the homeless, sponsoring back to school programs and educational endeavors for college bound young adults, mission endeavors, Bible study, etc., as God does allotted to FOHIM. By teaming up with the outreach team, it's a great way to be salt and light in the community that God has placed us in. The overall goals of this ministry are to welcome individuals in love, to share the gospel without prejudice, and to encourage then to pursue their spiritual walk with Christ.

As such, FOHIM solicits volunteers with a heart for cross-cultural assistance, encouragement and evangelism and those who desire to apply the Great Commission in thier own neighborhoods.

FOH Radio Ministry

FOHIM radio broadcast is designed to equip individuals to become a voice for the hopeless and to empower individuals to defuse the fragrance of love in their communities, schools, churches, and societies. The program aims at promoting the sanctity of humanity and to help guide individuals in making affirming choices to healthy life styles and family living. FOHIM goal is to promote educational awareness regarding social issues that impact Christianity, families, children, and individuals' spiritual development and potentials. Through this radio broadcast ministry, FOHIM will provide biblical teaching to guide individuals in making healthy life choices and promote the love of Christ to bring about healing in hurting individuals across diverse cultures, ethnicities, and socio-economical backgrounds. 

Programs

Biblical Counseling Ministries 

As God's people, we are members of one body in Christ Jesus. Therefore, God wants us to use our gifts and abilities to build up one another, displaying the unconditional love of Christ in an environment that is safe and confidential. As such, we can effectively impart wisdom, exhortation, love and compassion in the confidential setting of counseling to help bring about personal resolution and healing. The primary goal of the Biblical Counseling Ministry is to show forth God's love to people regardless of their status in life.

Christian Lay Counseling (CLC) -- This ministry is to provide supportive counseling at every points of a person's spiritual journey. This ministry seeks to convey the relational aspects of God and His desires for our love in an intimate relationship with Him. The Bible declares that there are safety and victory in the abundance of counselors (Prov. 11:14; 24:6). This ministry will come alongside those who are facing difficult circumstances to help guide them along the way, to facilitate healing and growth. The Word of God assures us that: (1) there is victory in the abundance of wise, godly counsel, and (2) the people of God have received precious gifts such as exhortation, wisdom, discernment, mercy and teaching to personality share with others in the counseling environment.

As lay counselors, we are interested in the health and strength of a person's spiritual walk with God. However, we keep in mind how all of the mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and relational aspects of our humanity need healing, especially since they all interact with and affect one another. We are more likely to become our best--all that our Lord would want us to be--when we embrace the large picture of the "whole person," as we wrestle with and work through our trials and challenges. It is God's will for us to understand Him in the context of His generous love and grace, so that we can live out that love in our lives and the world.

We rest in the fact that God is a safe, sovereign, present help in our time of need. In Him we are, without condemnation, free to acknowledge and then address our own unresolved issues and emotions. As we deal with our own unresolved issues and emotions, we increase our ability to help others. We love because we are first loved by God, and then by His people (the body of Christ). This healing journey often reflects:

--Giving ourselves completely to God for His purposes and learn to grow in the knowledge of His grace.

--Desire to serve Christ and others by helping others.

--Realize our needs, hurts, and unresolved issues that get in the way of serving God.

--Open up ourselves to help by God and others to address that which hinders and cripples us.

--Experience the grace of God as we hold and embrace the intolerable, embrassing and unacceptable aspects of our lives.

--Experience healing from God by learning to be ourselves, believed in and loved in whatsover state we are in.

--Learn to fully accept the severest of our own issues and unresolved challenges and emotions.

--Put our hearts in the position of applying God's truth, practical tools, and correction.

--Become more equipped and empowered to do for others what God and others did for us--to effectively minister God's love, grace, comfort, and wisdom.

Crisis Intervention Programs

Anger Management Workshop (AMW) -- The AMW is designed for both men and women who are struggling with anger issues and whom anger is causing problems in their lives or relationships (with God and man). It focuses on compassion and is designed to teach individuals control over anger by helping them to replace the emotion of anger with that of compassion, so they can build loving relationship, instead of breaking them down.

Couple's Communication Workshop (CCW) -- A couple's ability to handle conflict and disagreements is the best predictor of future marriage well being. All couples will have problems. However, it is how you handle them that count most. CCW is an interactive workshop that is designed for couples of all ages. This workshop is a combination of discussion and interactive exercise. The workshop will provide married couples with the communication and problem solving skills required to handle issues that we all face. 

Divorce Care and Crisis Intervention (DCCI). Going through a divorce is a stressful event for the parties who are faced with such predicament. The emotional reactions usually depend on the spiritual maturity levels of the individuals. Oftentimes, many experience feelings of anger, hopelessness, rejection, desertion, sadness, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. It is not uncommon for these feelings to be expressed in the individuals' behaviors. As Christians believers, we can help those who are going through the process of divorce by coming alongside them by encouraging, praying, supporting and being a friend with a listening ears. Also, we can help to minimize the stress the situation creates by responding openly and honestly to the concerns of the person experiencing the divorce.

The DCCI strategically incorporates both Biblical and educational strategies to help provide spiritual and emotional supports to those facing divorce crisis. As such, DCCI will help to provide support system, support group sessions and divorce workshops: a) anger management resolution--to help individuals develop healthy coping mechanisms in dealing with their anger and fears of abondanment, engage in supportive communications, maintain consistent expectations and routines, and make healthy adjustment; b) relaxation training--this strategy teaches individuals how to relax their minds and bodies and help them learn to cope with stresses and maintain daily activities and take responsibilities for their own actions, allowing them to feel more in control of their situation; and c) support group counseling session to help individuals cope with crisis situations through group discussions, role plays, and peer interactions to encourage individuals to be honest, direct, and open about thier feelings. The educational program is designed to help individuals effectively cope with divorce in a healthy manner.

Care and Compassionate Ministry (CCM) -- This ministry assists those who are struggling with spiritual and physical impairments (i.e., hospitalization, confinement to nursing homes, physical restrictions, etc,). The aim of this ministry is to keep members of FOHIM from feeling disconnected and forgotten. Our goal is to visit those individuals who are isolated at home, hospitalized, visitation of elderly who are physically impaired, or confined to nursing homes. It is the desire that this ministry to foster a relationship with people that reflect the true love of Christ in serving people God's way. Volunteers are needed in this area and commitment would be to make at least one visitation bi-weekly or two visits per month.

Family Intervention Care (FIC) -- FOHIM advocates for the sanctification and unification of the family as a unit in order to stop the disintegration (tearing down) of the norms of family values within a communal (society). We are committed to the rebuilding of strong family systems (as God originally intended) by providing resources, training, and Biblical precepts that promote Godly family values to enhance the mobilization of members within the family unit. As such, FIC will reinforce traditional values in families that promote family bonds/closeness and nurture healthy communication among family members according to Biblical truths regarding the institution of marriage and family system. FIC will assist with crisis intervention and referrals to bring stability within the family unit, as well as will provide spiritual enrichment programs, family violence prevention training, and family bonding activities.

FIC focus is to minister healing and wholeness in the lives of shattered and hurting families through the application of Biblical principles to bring total recovery and restoration within the family unit. The aims are to create a paradigm shift to inspire deeper level of commitment, love and appreciation among family members,to empower, affirm, validate and strengthen the family as a cohesive unit, and to uphold Biblical family values as set forth in the Scriptures: Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19: 4-9; Eph. 5: 22-25; Lev. 14:29; Ps. 127: 3; James 1:27; Num. 27: 6-11; Lev. 25: 47-49; Acts. 10: 11-14; 16: 21-32.

Christian Centered Recovery (CCR) -- This program helps individuals recovery from hang-ups, habits and hurts. The Bible tells us that all have sinned. It is human nature to sin, and because of this, we have at some point hurt ourselves and others, as well as been hurt by other people. The expression "time heals all wounds" is unfortunately not true. CCR is program that gives people the resources and fosters relationships to help them recover from life's hurts, habits, and hang-ups. The program is for anyone struggling with past or current dysfunctions or compulsions, whether they are affecting their own life or the lives of those around them.

The purpose of CCR is to fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in thier lives through the principles found in the beatitudes (Matt.5). This experience allows them to be changed by working and applying Biblical principles, to grow spiritually, and becomes free from addictive, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy, and most importantly, a strong personal relationship with God, others, and Jesus Christ, the one and only true God.

What Will You Experience

• Spiritual Rejuveniation which consists of large group worship. This will be a time of worshipping God in song, reading the word, prayer, testimonies and/or teaching by set aside the busyness and stresses of the outside world (Psalm 150: 1-6).
• Break-out sessions for open share group. These small groups meet immediately following the large group worship, with separate groups for men and women and according to topic. There are five simple rules while in the large group:

 Guidelines

• Keep your sharing focus on your own thoughts and feelings.
• Limit your sharing to 2-3 minutes.
• There is no cross talk which is when two persons engage in conversation, excluding all others.
• Each person is free to express his/her feelings without interruptions.
• The group is there to support one another, not to fix each other.
• Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements.
• What is shared in the group stays in the group.
• Offensive language are prohibited in all CCR groups.

What CCR Is?

• A safe place to share hang-ups, hurts, and habits
• A place of refuge
• A place of belonging
• A place to learn
• A place to care for others and be cared for
• A place where respect is given to each member
• A place where confidentiality is highly regarded
• A place to grow and regain spiritual strenght
• A place where you can take off your mask
• A place where you can experience unconditional love
• A place for healthy challenges and healthy risks
• A place to experience a turning point in your life