OMSC Staff

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

bonk@omsc.org
(203) 285-1561

Curriculum Vitae

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.

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Rev. J. Nelson Jennings, Ph.D.
Director of Program and Community Life

jennings@omsc.org
(203) 285-1556

Curriculum Vitae

Former missionary in Japan and professor of world mission, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis. Dr. Jennings is Associate Editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.

Rev. Jin Bong Kim
International Church Relations Assistant to the Executive Director

kim@OMSC.org
(203) 285-1540

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.

Raymond W. Sola, Jr.
Property and Facilities Manager

rsola@OMSC.org
(203) 285-1569

Mr. Sola is owner of a residential painting company and a member of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America.

Mrs. Maureen Alonso
Study Program Registrar
Administrative Assistant to the Director of Program and Community Life

alonso@OMSC.org
study@omsc.org
(203) 285-1565

Rev. Dwight P. Baker, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Editor, IBMR

baker@omsc.org
(203) 285-1515

Former Associate Director of OMSC and former Director of the World Christian Foundations study program, U.S. Center for World Mission, Dr. Baker is Senior Associate Editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.