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January 10,2006
 New Board of Directors Member
Meet Kim Hoare
As a person with a passion for helping others, Kim Hoare is a natural choice as a new Global Harmony Institute Board of Directors member. Kim now serves as the Associate Pastor of Service and Outreach for the First Church of Christ in Farmington, Connecticut. Kim spent the first six years of her career working at the Census Bureau in Washington DC in the Survey Department. For the next several years, Kim worked for non-profits focusing on adults and youth, where she has been an Adult leader for more than 20 different youth mission trips or youth camps. Kim attended the Yale Divinity School where she received her Masters of Divinity.
After years of working with youth, Kim says she loves seeing the transformation people go through when they make the connections between faith and how they can actually make a difference in the world. It’s great when people finally they recognize the humanity in the entire world, versus the commercialized world, where people are judged by how they look and who they hang out with. Kim receives great satisfaction when kids go on a mission trip realize what they do can change the world and really make a difference. She says these kids actually change the way they live now, some have joined the non-profit world and do more volunteering. Kim likens the transformation to the movie “Pay It Forward,” where someone does something good for someone else and how much difference these actions make in both lives.
Kim’s latest project is locally in Hartford where members of the church are working to build new homes. “You don’t have to go a long ways away to have these experiences,” says Kim. One home has already been completed, with work started on another. These small community changes have inspired members of the neighborhood to also fix their homes, so there is a ripple effect as well.
“Global Harmony Institute is an instrument of change” says Kim. “A counter cultural organization, GHI is a place that promotes compassionate relationships that help people care for each other and care for the world.” Kim says her goal for GHI is to serve as a local resource to aid in change. By developing the community, GHI can expand and become a progressive voice in the Hartford area. Kim says, “As a member of the clergy, it is important to be involved with organizations that are not religious.” Her goal is to help spread the progressive voice of Global Harmony Institute.
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