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Rev. Jonathan J. Bonk, Ph.D.
Executive Director

bonk@omsc.org
203) 285-1561

Curriculum Vitae
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Dr. Jonathan J. Bonk is the Executive Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Before moving to New Haven in 1997, he served for twenty years as Professor of Global Christian Studies at Providence College and Theological Seminary in Canada. He was raised in Ethiopia by missionary parents, serving there with his wife in famine relief from 1974–1976. A Mennonite minister, he is past President of both the American Society of Missiology (ASM) and the Association of Professors of Mission (APM), and is currently President of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS—www.missionstudies.org). He is the author of numerous articles and reviews, has published five books, and edited several others. His best-known book is Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem (Orbis: 1st edition 1991; 2nd edition 2007), translated into Korean (Christian Literature Society of Korea 2010). He is editor of Accountability in Missions: Korean and Western Case Studies, being published this year in English (Wipf & Stock) and Korean (Word of Life Press). He travels extensively in Asia, and as Project Director for the Dictionary of African Christian Biography, a multilingual, electronic, non-proprietary reference tool (www.dacb.org), visits Africa regularly. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries, Volume 9 in Routledge’s Religion and Society Series (2007), and serves as regular visiting professor of Missions and Evangelism at Yale Divinity School and at the Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary in Seoul. He and his wife Jean have two children.

Rev. J. Nelson Jennings, Ph.D.
Executive Director Designate

jennings@omsc.org
(203) 285-1556

Curriculum Vitae

Nelson and Kathy Jennings joined the Overseas Ministries Study Center’s staff on July 1, 2011, Nelson as director of program and community life and Kathy as the English for Speakers of Other Languages teacher. Nearly a year later the Board of Trustees appointed Dr. Jennings executive director designate, completing a leadership transition that concludes in June 2013 when Dr. Jonathan J. Bonk retires after twelve years as executive director.

In 1999 Nelson joined the faculty of Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, where he was professor of world mission; he was also editor of Missiology: An International Review and president of Presbyterian Mission International.

A native of northern Alabama, Nelson graduated from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and mathematics in 1980, having had four years varsity baseball scholarships. In 1985 he earned a master of divinity degree from Covenant Theological Seminary. Raised in Miami, Florida and southern California, Kathy attended Vanderbilt University, where she and Nelson met. She taught ESOL for more than ten years before coming to OMSC.

From 1986 to 1999, Nelson and Kathy were church-planting missionaries in cooperation with the Presbyterian Church in Japan, and Nelson was assistant professor of international Christian Studies at Tokyo Christian University. During those years of international service, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, studying under Professor Andrew F. Walls at the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World.

Dr. Jennings is author of God the Real Superpower: Rethinking Our Role in Missions (2007) and Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro, 1885–1934 (2005, the subject of his doctoral dissertation), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is coauthor of Philosophical Theology in East-West Dialogue (2000).

Nelson and Kathy are parents of three daughters and grandparents of twin girls.

Rev. Jin Bong Kim
Director of International Church Relations

kim@OMSC.org

(203) 285-1568, office
(203) 285-1540, home

Former Korean missionary with the Fulani through WEC International and GMS (Global Mission Society) in Guinea, West Africa.

Mrs. Judy C. Stebbins
Director of Finance and Housing

stebbins@omsc.org
(203) 285-1552

Former Director of Administration and Finance, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut

Rev. Daniel J. Nicholas
Director of Communications and Publications

nicholas@omsc.org
(203) 285-1566

Former pastor-church planter in Vermont and Managing Editor for the Baptist Convention of New England. Rev. Nicholas is Managing Editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.