OMSC Staff

(203) 624-6672
490 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511 USA

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

Bonk@OMSC.org

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae (summary)

Dr. Jonathan J. Bonk is executive director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Before his relocation to the United States in 1997, he served as Professor of Global Christian Studies at Providence College and Seminary in Canada. He was raised in Ethiopia, where he and his wife also served as missionaries, 1974–76. He is an ordained Mennonite minister, has served as president of both the American Society of Missiology and the Association of Professors of Mission, and is currently vice-president of the International Association for Mission Studies.

He is the author of numerous articles and reviews and has published five books, the best known of which is Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem (Orbis, 1991), now in its eleventh printing. A second edition, Missions and Money: Affluence as a Missionary Problem . . . Revisited, was released by Orbis in 2006.

As project director for the Dictionary of African Christian Biography, a multilingual (English, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Arabic), electronic, nonproprietary reference tool, he travels extensively each year in Africa. He also is editor of the Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries (2007 as Volume 9 in Routledge’s Religion and Society Series.)

Rev. Dwight P. Baker, Ph.D.
Associate Director

Baker@OMSC.org

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

Mrs. Judy C. Stebbins
Director of Finance and Housing

Stebbins@OMSC.org

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

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

maintenance@OMSC.org

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 Associate Director

Alonso@OMSC.org

Mrs. Lois Baker
Prayer Ministry

loisibaker@aol.com

Ms. Laura Bentivegna
DACB Assistant

laura.bentivegna@yale.edu

Mrs. Grace Inae Blum
Circulation Coordinator
Publications Office Assistant

IBMR@omsc.org

Mrs. Jean Bonk
English-as-a-Second Language

Cooking class

ESL@omsc.org

Dr. Irina Brown
Mr. Frank Brown
Resident Hosts, Doane Hall

doctoririna@gmail.com (Irina)

brown@ireland.com (Frank)

Ms. Patricia Dowling
Assistant Director of Finance and Housing

Dowling@OMSC.org

Dr. Natalie Eastman
Mr. David Eastman
Resident Hosts, Great Commission Hall

eastman@omsc.org

Ms. Sandra Garcia
Housekeeper

Garcia@OMSC.org

Mrs. Erika K. R. Hirsch
Administrative Assistant for Admissions
Project Manager, Oxford Studies in World Christianity

admissions@OMSC.org

oswc@omsc.org
www.oxfordstudies.html

Mrs. Pamela S. Huffman
Guest Relations
Business Office Assistant

huffman@OMSC.org

Mr. Craig A. Noll, Ph.D.
Assistant Editor
International Bulletin of Missionary Research

North Kingstown, Rhode Island

canoll@cox.net

Ms. Sarah Patterson
Intern, Yale Divinity School

sarah.patterson@yale.edu

Mrs. Michèle Sigg
DACB Project Manager

dacb@OMSC.org
www.DACB.org

Mr. Sam Sigg
Artist Liaision

art@OMSC.org

OMSC art gallery

Ms. Becka L.Sisti
DACB Assistant

lilsunbeam886@yahoo.com

Mrs. Pamela Sola
Administrative Assistant to the Executive Director

sola@OMSC.org

Mr. Jeff Theriault
Computer Systems Assistant

theriault@omsc.org

Mr. Bruce Toth
Maintenance Caretaker

toth@omsc.org