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OMSC Seeks Director of Program and Community Life

The Overseas Ministries Study Center seeks a missiologically informed, academically competent, editorially proficient, and professionally respected team player for a new senior staff position—Director of Program and Community Life.

The successful candidate will participate in general planning, program development, and administration; be responsible for publicity, recruitment, registration, and logistics for OMSC’s mission seminars; share in lecturing, tutorial instruction, planning and leading worship, and advising international missionary residents and church leaders; nurture relationships with churches, academic institutions, and community agencies; foster OMSC community life by helping to coordinate resident programs and social activities and by participating in them; represent OMSC at conferences and consultations concerned with world mission; conduct research on current trends and issues in the Christian world mission; and engage in research and writing projects for the purpose of publication.

Candidates interested in this position, which commences in mid-2011, are asked to send a résumé, a cover letter, and three references that provide opinions about  their academic, administrative, and editorial skills and experience to Dr. Jonathan J. Bonk, Executive Director, either by e-mail (bonk@OMSC.org) or by regular mail (Overseas Ministries Study Center, 490 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 USA).

Deadline: September 1, 2010.

posted 25 May 2010


Listing of other positions open

Place a summary of your mission-related "Positions Open" on the OMSC Web site at no charge. Summarize your announcement including Web and e-mail links back to the details on your Web site. Positions Open will be listed for four months and may be renewed. Send notices of positions open to Dan Nicholas, Managing Editor, nicholas@OMSC.org. This is a free service of the IBMR. There is no charge for these brief listings and links.


 

Read the Hearth Newsletter

 

READ THE SPRING 2010 NEWSLETTER

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S LETTER

YOUR REPLY

ADDRESS AND E-MAIL UPDATE

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Haiti Rising

Art Exhibition:
May 3 to September 17, 2010

DETAILS

 

OMSC 2010-2011 Study Program Seminars

From All Nations,
To All
Peoples

Download the Study program brochure :
September 2010 to May 2011 [PDF]

 

 

 

Click here to View a video online

Sunny and Rosalind: Marriage and Ministry

Featured in this video are Boon Sang (Sunny) Tan and Rosalind Lim-Tan, former OMSC residents community ( © James Ault Productions, 2007). Also featured is the late Dr. Kwame Bediako.


Joy in the Lord

The Collage Art of Jae-Im Kim
Volume 1

200 inspirational, high-resolution paper collages on a single CD-ROM.

Ready for your use when designing church bulletin covers, greeting cards, newsletters, and other colorful ministry publications.

 

INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND CONTENTS
ORDER A COPY ONLINE

 

 

Listen to an OMSC Public Lecture: Professor Andrew F. Walls
Friday, November 13 at 12:30 p.m.

When World Christianity Fell Apart: The Missionary Significance of the Sixth Century

LISTEN (1:04, 60.3 MB)

Professor Andrew F. Walls, founder and former director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, is senior research professor at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture, Akropong, Ghana. He is honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh, and professor of the history of mission at Liverpool Hope University. He served as a missionary in Sierra Leone and Nigeria. His writings include The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith (1996), The Crosscultural Process in Christian History (2002), and The Cultural History of Christian Conversion (forthcoming).

Listen to other mission lectures online

 


You Are Invited

The Believer’s Journey: The Art of Jae-Im Kim

An exhibition at Yale Institute of Sacred Music

Now until April 16, 2010

 

 

Atlas of Global Christianity

Edited by Todd M. Johnson and Kenneth R. Ross
A visual quick reference of the changing status of global Christianity over the 100 years since the epoch-making ‘Edinburgh 1910’ World Missionary Conference.

The Overseas Ministries Study Center is a sponsor of the Atlas. See the advertisement in the July 2009 International Bulletin of Missionary Research, page 163.

Pre-order your copy now at the special price of £60.00 / $100.00

 

 

 

 

OMSC Study Program,
2009-2010

Seminars for International Church Leaders, Missionaries, Mission
Executives, Pastors, Educators, Students, and Lay Leaders

Study program brochure: September 2009 to May 2010 [PDF]

List of seminars [html]

Renewal for Misison in the 21st Century

 

 

Third International Conference
The Crossings Community, Inc.
January 25-27, 2010
St. Louis, MO

God's Promise, Our Mission: Making
the Crucial Link

Speakers include: William R. Burrows, former managing editor of Orbis Books, former president of the American Society of Missiology, research professor of missiology at New York Theological Seminary, and a contributing editor to the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.

CONFERENCE DETAILS
P.O. Box 7011, Chesterfield, MO 63006-7011
314-576-7357, info@crossings.org

 

 

OMSC information in Korean

OMSC는 국적과 교파를 초월한 다양한 레지던트들이 함께 생활하고 있습니다. 또한 전문적인 선교 훈련 세미나, 최신 선교 연구와 유명 선교학자들의 포럼 등을 주최하고 있으며, 권위 있는 선교관련 잡지와 책들을 발행하고 있습니다. 또한 유명 크리스천 미술화가들을 초청하여 예술을 통한 선교에도 앞장서고 있습니다 OMSC는 21세기 세계화 시대에 맞춰 다각적이고 효과적인 사역의 확장을 통해 독보적인 위치를 유지하고 있습니다.

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Read about OMSC in Christianity Today, November 2008:

The Good News in Oil and Acrylic

A missions center becomes a patron of the arts
Tony Carnes | posted 11/25/2008 09:26AM | click here

Visitors here don't expect to be challenged, diverted, distracted, and exhilarated when they walk into a missions building," says Jonathan Bonk. But when they enter the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC), whose walls are lined with contemporary paintings, Bonk says, "The sheer beauty of the art causes people to light up. As visitors walk around, they are reminded of the gospel." Bonk is the director of OMSC, which has an established reputation for studying and strategizing world missions. The 160 paintings highlight one of its newer roles: patron of the visual arts. read more. . .

 

 

 

 

OMSC Audio Library


Listen to a select collection of
mission lectures online

 

 

 

   

 


 


 

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