Pastors and
Mission Committee Members
Plan to attend
Mission Seminar
and Luncheon
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Charles
Amjad-Ali
“Christian Faith and the Muslim World”
.jpg) Dr. Amjad-Ali, who was ordained as a presbyter of the Church of Pakistan in 1987, is professor for justice and Christian community at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. Previously he was director of the Christian Study Center, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (1985–95), and chair of the Asian Partnership for Community Organization, part of the Christian Conference of Asia. Since 1991 he has been a member of the Christian-Muslim task force of the Lutheran World Federation. He was a founder of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Dr. Amjad-Ali’s most recent book is Islamophobia or Restorative Justice: Tearing the Veils of Ignorance  (2006). He is coauthor of Leaving the Shadows? Pakistan’s Christians and the Search for Orientation in an Overwhelmingly Muslim Society (forthcoming).
Overseas Ministries Study Center
(203) 624-6672, ext. 314
Cosponsored by
Black Rock Congregational Church, Fairfield, Connecticut
Greenfield Hill Congregational Church, Fairfield, Connecticut
Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
Naugatuck Valley Community Church, Naugatuck, Connecticut
St. James’ Church, New Haven, Connecticut
St. John's Episcopal Church, New Haven, Connecticut
Space is limited. To reserve your complimentary luncheon, please RSVP by March 5, 2010, by e-mail
(sola@OMSC.org), by mail (490 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511) with the enclosed reply form,
or by fax (203-865-2857). When registering list the name of each person attending from your church.
Directions: www.OMSC.org/directions.html
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PREVIOUS Mission SeminarS and LuncheonS
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
 Rev. Randall Prior is professor of ministry studies and missiology at the United Faculty of Theology, Melbourne, Australia. A senior mission scholar in residence at OMSC for the fall semester, he teaches in the areas of theological reflection for ministry practice and pastoral theology, as well as about the intersection of Gospel and culture, mission, and evangelism. Prior’s research interests include exploring these topics in the context of Vanuatu as an experiment in grounding theology in a post-independent South Pacific. He is editor of The Gospel and Cultures: Initial Explorations in the Australian Context (1997) and a five-volume series called The Gospel and Culture in Vanuatu (1998–2006). A former pastor, Prior is part of the Uniting Church in Australia.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
 Dr. Edith L. Blumhofer, professor of history at Wheaton College and director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton, Illinois, is being invited to lecture on one of her principal interests, “Pentecostalism as a Worldwide Phenomenon.” Her research interests focus on the history of Christianity in post–Civil War America. A senior mission scholar in residence at OMSC for the spring 2009 semester, Dr. Blumhofer is also interested in the religion of ordinary people and has recently been exploring the history of Protestant hymnody. She is preparing a set of Web-based resources to facilitate the teaching of Pentecostal studies.
The author of People of Faith: A History of Western Christianity (2007), she is currently writing Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
October 8, 2008
RESOURCES: Audio download (41 MB) / PowerPoint notes
Global Church Partnerships in Light of Unique Challenges
Facing the Two-thirds World Church
Bible teacher and author Dr. Ajith Fernando has been national director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka since 1976. Dr. Fernando’s writing andinternational preaching ministry focuses on teaching and applying the Bible and on helping people understand the mission of the church. He is visiting lecturer in biblical studies and mission at Colombo Theological Seminary. His major theological inquiry at present is to find out how  Christ helps people to overcome addiction, especially drug addiction, and also to find out how Christians can best communicate the Gospel to people from shame-based cultures. Dr. Fernando has written thirteen books, including Crucial Questions About Hell (1994), The Supremacy of Christ (1995), NIV Application Commentary on Acts (1998), Jesus Driven Ministry (2002), The Call to Joy and Pain (2007), and The Fullness of Christ: Ephesians (2007). A Methodist, he is writing a preaching commentary on Deuteronomy.
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