Pastors and Church Mission Committee Members

Overseas Ministries Study Center
cordially invites you and your church’s mission leadership to a
mission seminar and luncheon

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Dr. John W. McNeill

The Russian Church, Collapse of the Soviet Empire, and Missions

Dr. John W. McNeill, senior mission scholar in residence at OMSC for the fall 2010 semester, is professor of anthropology and intercultural studies at Providence College, Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada. Prior to joining the Providence faculty in 2000, he was an intercultural teacher and administrator with the University of the Nations, an affiliate of Youth With A Mission. Dr. McNeill trained leaders for nineteen years (1990– 2009) at the university’s center in Eastern Europe and Russia, and he held the same position in former East Germany (1989–92). A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, he discovered Russian literature as a child, and that appreciation led to his academic career. Dr. McNeill wrote a Ph.D. dissertation (Trinity International University, 1995) on “Western Saints in Holy Russia: Perceptions of Conversion and of Westerners Among Western Influenced Converts, Russian Church Converts, and Members of the Public in the Former USSR.” The ethnographic study was published as Western Saints in Holy Russia (Mandate Press, 2002). He is also author of “The Church and Western Ministry: What Russian Christians Think,” in The East-West Church and Ministry Report (1994), and “Reclaiming Augustine for Christian Education,” in Christian Education Journal (2003).

Space is limited: To reserve your complimentary luncheon, please RSVP by September 22, 2010, by e-mail to Pamela Sola, sola@OMSC.org), by mail to 490 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, or by fax to (203) 865-2857. When registering, list the name of each person attending from your church.

Directions: www.OMSC.org/directions.html

Previous mission seminar and luncheon

Korean pastors: You are invited to a mission seminar and luncheon on October 4, 2010.