SIM Missionaries Guide Children in Pakistan OMSC and Family

No. 28, Fall 2010
FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OMSC and Family
Resemblance
By Jonathan J. Bonk
Executive Director
“The LORD is slow to
anger, abounding in
love and forgiving sin
and rebellion. Yet he
does not leave the guilty
unpunished; he punishes
the children for the sin of
the fathers to the third
and fourth generation”
(Numbers 14:18 NIV).
Memorized when I was a child in an
Ethiopian boarding school more than fifty
years ago, this verse—indicative of a motif
that suffuses the Old Testament—has gained
renewed poignancy at OMSC this year, thanks
to one of our resident missionary families. Dr.
Seok Jeoung Woo, a cardiovascular surgeon,
directs the Long An Segaero Hospital in
Vietnam. His wife, Hee Jeong Lee, serves as
the hospital administrator.
They have served there with Korea
Presbyterian Missions (Kosin) for the past
nine years. The hospital caters to the six million
or so descendants of those whose exposure
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George Pickens (left) of Messiah College and
Ohene Kumi (see his story on page two) get
acquainted at an OMSC picnic, September 10.
Welcome residents: OMSC is home this year to a vibrant community of missionaries,
scholars, and international church leaders (photo by Michael Marsland, Yale University).
SIM Missionaries Guide Children in Pakistan
Abraham Dong Beck Choi, a missionary o’clock every morning to pray. If anyone
with Serving in Mission (SIM), and his missed a Sunday service, he or she would
wife, Young Sun Kim (Margaret), have been be beaten.
working in Pakistan since 1996. During
Despite the harsh environment, Abraham
their fourteen years of ministry, they start- accepted Christ at the age of nine. He beed a book van ministry to spread the Word came passionate about mission after seeing
of God to villages where the Gospel was
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not heard. Christian books, Bibles, CDs,
cassettes, and other evangelistic materials were sent to villagers to introduce
them to Christian faith. Abraham and
Margaret also developed a discipleship
training program to build strong believers among young people and pastors. Teaching Sunday school is another
key component of their ministry.
Abraham’s father died when he was
three years old, and his mother moved
to another province in Korea to work in
a Christian orphanage to raise Abraham
and his four siblings. “It was a very tough
job for my mum,” he recalls. Strict rules
were implemented in the orphanage, Serving in Pakistan: Abraham Choi with
where the children would get up at six daughter, Noelle, and wife, Margaret
Family Resemblance
Continued from page one
to Agent Orange unwittingly bequeathed to
succeeding generations of progeny hideous,
often debilitating, birth defects and physical
malformaties so grotesque as to make looking
at them difficult.
In a series of five articles appearing in the
Chicago Tribune in December 2009 (www
.chicagotribune.com/health/agentorange/)
investigative reporters Jason Grotto and Tim
Jones surveyed the tragic legacy of America’s
use of toxic defoliants in waging its war
in South Vietnam. Although it would soon
be discovered that they contained the most
toxic man-made chemical known, the dioxin
TCDD, officials at the time assured anxious
soldiers and civilians that the defoliants were
risk free.
To demonstrate their harmlessness to more
skeptical peasant farmers, soldiers would spray
themselves with the defoliant and drink water
laced with the chemical. Thus reassured, over
a period of ten years (1961–70), “Operation
Ranch Hand” dropped almost twenty million
gallons of herbicides on South Vietnamese
fields and forests. Scientists now link dioxin
to scores of illnesses, including crippling
congenital disorders. Although the war is considered ancient
history by the country that waged it, the
estimated six million affected Vietnamese
have not been forgotten by this Christian
missionary family.
In Jesus’ name, they do what comes naturally
to those who bear his DNA. Beneath the
national, political, ethnic, social, and medical
labels that we humans use to justify our
kindness, meanness, or apathy vis-à-vis
others, Dr. Woo and his family (their photos
are on page four) see in each person, however
labeled or defaced, what God sees: his family
resemblance.
Each bears God’s image. Like all the other
wonderful “ministers of reconciliation” who
comprise OMSC’s community this year, they
“no longer live for themselves, but for him who
died for them and was raised again,” and they
can no longer regard anyone “from a worldly
point of view” (2 Cor. 5:14–16 NIV).
There is no other way that we—comfortable
beneficiaries of our nation’s suppressed sins—
can authentically echo the Psalmist’s heartfelt
prayer for mercy: Do not hold against us the
sins of the fathers; may your mercy come
quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate
need. Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory
of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins
for your name’s sake (Psalm 79:8–9 NIV).
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SIM Missionaries Guide Children in Pakistan
Continued from page one
a vision when a Western missionary shared
his testimony about work in Africa. To prepare for mission work, Abraham studied in
Korea at the Asian Centre for Theological
Studies and Missions where he completed
a bachelor of theology degree. He also
received theological training at Hapdong
Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Korea and Providence Theological Seminary
in Canada, where he was one of Jonathan
Bonk’s students.
The biblical image of seeking lost sheep
(Luke 15:3–7) is a central idea in Abraham’s
ministry. When he arrived in Pakistan, he
noted that although Western missionaries
had started schools and hospitals and had
engaged in many charitable ministries,
they did not train enough Pakistani leaders
for the indigenous churches. “Many of the
church people I met were nominal Christians. They were relaxed. They just wanted
a peaceful and enjoyable life. Many of them
are just concerned about money,” says
Abraham, who was disturbed by that reality. He decided to vigorously reintroduce the
concept of justification by faith alone, and to
make heaven and hell real to the Pakistanis.
Abraham and Margaret devoted much
of their time to building a vibrant Sunday school. They insisted that all Sunday
school teachers visit the children they
taught frequently and increase the number
of activities they organized. This rigorous
policy expanded the Sunday school class
from twenty to 150 children.
Abraham hopes others will find meaning through his ministry. “I want people to
know that their lives are about proclaiming
the Gospel.”
Abraham and Margaret are the parents of
Joel, who attends Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia; and Noelle, who
lives with them at OMSC. —Conan Yin
Ghanaian Ministers to Children for Two Decades
When asked to name the most important
thing others should know about him, Ohene
Kumi says, “I just want to be remembered
as a fellow servant of Jesus Christ.” The
national director of AMG International in
Ghana, Ohene teaches at the All Africa
Bible Institute, holds
leadership
seminars,
conducts vacation Bible
schools, and runs a discipleship program in
105 junior high schools
across the country.
Ohene and his team
work hard to teach,
preach, encourage, minister, and share the Gospel with young and old.
Prior to serving as a missionary with AMG International (Advancing the
Ministries of the Gospel,
Chattanooga, Tennessee)
he worked as an accounts
officer in a trading company.
Ohene became a Christian in 1985 after
hearing the Gospel preached clearly at a
revival meeting. He started his ministry
by playing football with children at a playground and telling them stories at the end
of games. The children kept coming and
sometimes they brought their friends for
more games and the Bible stories. As time
went by, a few children became a team, and
the team eventually evolved into a church.
Ohene has been working with children
for more than twenty years now. Among
his students are Gladys, who despite a disability plans to be a volunteer teacher at VBS
classes someday. Another student, Linda, found
strength from God’s
unwavering love after
the death of her father,
and the lessons taught at
VBS brought her peace.
Mohammed discovered
his own faith despite
family opposition. It is
for young people like
these that Ohene and
his teams are passionate about ministry. “It is
a true joy,” he says, “to
work with children. That
is my calling.”
At OMSC Ohene plans
to write a book that will encourage pastors
to reconsider ministry with teenagers. He
is inspired by Matthew 18:5 that Christians
should welcome children as they would
welcome Jesus Christ. He sometimes worries that most church activities do not include
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Jesuit Demonstrates
Ability to Find Joy in
Simplest Gifts of Life
Michèle Sigg (right) in Nairobi with a group that includes Professor Andrew F. Walls (front
row, third from right) and former OMSC senior resident scholar Diane Stinton (front row left).
Plans Are Developing to Move DACB to Nairobi
In September 2010, Dictionary of African Christian Biography project manager Michèle
Sigg joined the M.Th. in World Christianity program at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate
School of Theology, now a wing of the newly chartered Africa International University,
for her first two-week residency.
Her participation in this program is part of the plan to have the DACB office transition to
Africa in the next two to three years. In the fall of 2011 Michèle, her husband, Sam (OMSC’s
artist liaison), and their three children will move to Nairobi to facilitate the transition.
African Scholars Prepare Dictionary Profiles
The 2010–11 Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.DACB.org) Project Luke
fellows hail from Kenya and Nigeria.
Watson Omulokoli is professor of church history in the Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies at Kenyatta University in Nairobi. His wife, Emmah, is a lecturer in chemistry at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, and they have three children, Barnabas,
Paul, and Esther, all of whom are university students.
In addition to his calling as an educator, Watson served for seventeen years (1985 to 2002) as university chaplain at Kenyatta
University, ministering to students and staff from diverse church
backgrounds.
He is active in Christian work outside the university as the patron for Bible Translation and Literacy, the Wycliffe International affiliate in Kenya;
chairman of the trustee board of the African Institute for Contemporary Mission and
Research; a board member of Africa Evangelistic Enterprise; a council member of
Pan African Christian University; and the chancellor of Africa International University.
Kehinde Olabimtan is from Lagos, Nigeria, where he coordinates the educational
ministries of Good News Baptist Church. He is an adjunct teacher
at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Mission, Theology, and Culture, in Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana; Baptist College of Theology,
Lagos, Nigeria; and Cliff College International Learning Centre,
in Nigeria.
Kehinde coordinated the work of the DACB in West Africa from
2002 to 2004. He has served as a pastor in several churches and worked
in the office of the general secretary of the Nigerian Baptist Convention
in Ibadan. His wife, Bose, works in contract management with transnational corporations in Nigeria. They are the parents of a girl, Tinuoluwa, nine, and two
boys, Olumide, twelve, and Bolarinwa, fourteen. —Michèle Sigg
Yiu Sing (Lucas) Chan, a Roman Catholic
Jesuit priest, decided to study at OMSC and
Yale after completing a Ph.D. in Christian
ethics at Boston College. He is a research
fellow at Yale Divinity School, where he
plans to expand his doctoral dissertation on
the relation between Christian ethics and
Scripture.
Born in Hong Kong, Lucas has served
with his religious order in many parts of
the world. He taught mathematics, English, and ethics in Hong Kong, Singapore,
the U.K., and Macau. As part of his Jesuit
training, he received a B.A. in philosophy
from the Holy Spirit Seminary and College
in Hong Kong, an M.Div. and an M.A. in
pastoral ministry from Ateneo de Manila
University, Quezon City, Philippines, and a
licentiate of sacred theology in moral theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Commenting on his theological training,
Lucas says, “It is our Jesuit belief that theology should not just be the activity of the
brain. We need experience so that our theology can reflect upon these experiences.”
Therefore, before his degree in theology,
Lucas served for two years in Cambodia as
a missionary working with Jesuit Refugee
Service and the UNHCR and as an acting
director for a vocational training school for
the handicapped.
Joy
is
one of the
greatest
themes for
L u c a s ’s
m i n i s t r y.
His service
in Cambodia taught
him that
happiness
is not necessarily
dependent
on “quality of life.”
Among the
people he worked with, many had lost their
eyes and limbs because of land mines, lived
in poverty, or received little education.
Yet in the midst of their difficult lives,
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Greetings from OMSC
For twenty-nine years Sr. Odilia Bulayungan,
O.S.B., of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the Philippines has
been serving the poor. She
and the other Benedictine
sisters advocate empowerment and self-reliance for
women, children, and indigenous peoples.
Korean Pastors Enjoy Luncheon and Seminar
Korean pastors and church mission leaders from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New
York attended OMSC’s luncheon and seminar on October 4 at which Ellen Svea Swanson
of Madison, Connecticut, gave a presentation about Mary F. B. Scranton and her son, William
Scranton, who were missionaries to Korea from New Haven.
Fifty-four people attended the annual event, which also featured brief presentations from
OMSC residents Dong Beck (Abraham) Choi about mission with SIM in Pakistan (see
page one), Hee Chul Chae about mission with SIM in Mongolia, Ahn Jin Jung of the
Presbyterian Church of Korea about mission in China, and Seok Jeoung Woo about medical
mission with Korea Presbyterian Missions in Vietnam.
The luncheon was coordinated by Jin Bong Kim, international church relations assistant
to executive director Jonathan Bonk.
Leadership Forum Will Focus on Accountability
“Missions, Missionaries, and Accountability: Implications for Strategy, Integrity, and
Continuity” is the theme of a forum for mission administrators that will be held at OMSC
from February 10 to 14, 2011. “Administrative and fiscal accountability processes and
procedures within the very dynamic and rapidly growing Korean mission community are
evolving, and Korean mission administrators, missionaries, and churches are encountering some perplexing issues. The explosive growth and energy of Korean mission endeavor
in some of the world’s most challenging mission fields has often far outpaced established
policies and guidelines, which could not have anticipated these kinds of challenges,” says
OMSC executive director Jonathan Bonk, who organized and will host the invitation-only
conference for senior administrators.
An impressive roster of fifteen Korean and fifteen non-Korean case study presenters
and respondents—high-level mission agency executives and mission professors—have
agreed to take part in this important forum, assembled specifically to explore (through case studies) questions of accountability from every possible angle.
Plans have been made to publish a book with the forum’s papers, responses, and Bible studies in both English and Korean. OMSC is providing the hospitality, and—with the financial assistance of some key
Korean churches—covering the full cost of the conference, which includes
lodging, food, honoraria, and book publication.
OMSC wants to expand its conference and housing capacity for future leadership conferences of this kind and to better serve the immediate
needs of Korean and other missionary families who apply for residence
at OMSC. “We simply don’t have enough room for families,” says Bonk,
whose dream is to add a third floor onto Doane Hall. It will cost an estimated $2 million and will provide the center with four three-bedroom
apartments, a small conference-gallery space, and an elevator.
For additional information, e-mail Jonathan Bonk (bonk@omsc.org) or
Jin Bong Kim (kim@omsc.org), or telephone them at (203) 624-6672.
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Kay Myar of the Mon Baptist Convention, Myanmar, teaches church
music, Christian religious
education, and New Testament introduction at
Mon Baptist Theological
Seminary. She also leads
the educational ministry
of the Mawlamyine Mon
Baptist Church.
Paw Gaw of the Yangon Kayin Baptist Women’s Association,
Myanmar, has been serving women, especially migrant domestic workers,
for thirteen years. She and
her team work to advance
women’s welfare by providing legal assistance,
job training, and spiritual
care.
(Below) Seok Jeoung Woo, a medical missionary with Korea Presbyterian Missions,
Kosin Denomination, works in Vietnam as
director of the Long An Segaero Hospital,
where his wife, Hee Jeong Lee, is an administrator. Their daughter, YeonKyung,
attends high school in New Haven.
Specialist on Christianity in Former Soviet Union Is Senior Mission Scholar
John W. McNeill came to OMSC
from Providence College, Manitoba, Canada, where he is professor of
anthropology and intercultural studies. As the senior mission scholar at
OMSC for the fall 2010 semester,
he is engaged in numerous research
projects, including one on the activities of Korean missionaries in
the former Soviet Union around and
after the collapse of Soviet power,
and another project on the European
Russian dominance in Siberia that
has resulted in the suppression of
the culture of local Asian minorities.
As a Christian scholar, John believes that “it is absolutely essential
to combine faith and intellect” in
academic work. Recalling his ex- Anthropologist John W. McNeill (right) spoke on September 29 about Christianity and mission in
perience as a Ph.D. student, John the former Soviet Union, at OMSC’s semiannual luncheon and seminar for pastors and church
says, “The more deeply you under- mission leaders. Three OMSC residents also talked about their missions.
stand people and their cultures, the
more you see the relevance of Christian
“We met hundreds of people from all be transcended by the same yearnings for
faith and Christian principles. I believe that over the world, many of whom we still love and acceptance.
Jesus had the best skills for understanding keep in touch with. We now literally have
John and Christel take great delight in
people and their cultural setting. Christian friends everywhere.” The greatest mo- their four daughters, all of whom speak
compassion calls us to understand people ments for Christel were when she could several languages, thanks to their multiculbetter, and cultural anthropology and in- discover the common humanity of people tural upbringing. They are celebrating the
tercultural science, which I was studying, with drastically different cultures and birth of their ninth grandchild, a boy who
were designed exactly to do that—to try to when sometimes language barriers could was born on October 4. —Conan Yin
understand people better.”
With this belief, John, a native of Canada,
has been teaching for more than twenty
years in eastern Germany, Russia, Poland,
Romania, and Ukraine. This period of
teaching gave him a great sense of excitement because his students were curious
and eager to learn about Christianity, since
Christians had been largely excluded from
higher education, and propaganda courses
against Christianity were obligatory in
many Communist regimes.
These years of conversing with students OMSC residents need electric keyboards with headphones so their children
forced him to reflect deeply on the issue of can practice without disturbing their neighbors. If you could provide a
intercultural understanding. He laments,
good-quality keyboard or a donation ($500) for a keyboard, that would be
“We from the West understand almost
nothing about the Russian people—yet we much appreciated. Contact Jonathan Bonk, OMSC Executive Director,
base our interaction with them on profound bonk@omsc.org or (203) 624-6672.
ignorance. This is sad.” Much of John’s
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scholarship strives to bridge this gap of
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John’s wife, Christel, accompanied him
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Associate Director
during some of his trips to Eastern Europe.
Although it was challenging for her to take
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J. Nelson Jennings Named to OMSC Senior Staff
The Board of Trustees invited Nelson and phy and mathematics in 1980, having had
Kathy Jennings to join the Overseas Min- a four-year varsity baseball scholarship. In
istries Study Center’s senior management 1985 he earned a master of divinity degree
from Covenant Theologiteam effective July 1,
cal Seminary.
2011.
From 1986 to 1999,
In 1999 Nelson joined
Nelson and Kathy were
the faculty of Covenant
Presbyterian missionTheological Seminary,
aries in Japan, focusSt. Louis, where he is
ing their ministries on
professor of world mischurch planting and
sion.
theological education.
He is editor of MissiDuring those years of
ology: An International
international
service,
Review and president of
Nelson earned a Ph.D.
Presbyterian Mission Infrom the University of
ternational.
Edinburgh; he studied
Nelson will serve as
under Professor Andrew
director of program and
F. Walls at the Center for the
community life, replacing the
Study of Christianity in the
retiring associate director,
The Spring 2011
Dwight Baker.
issue of The Hearth Non-Western World.
Nelson is author of God the
Kathy, a teacher of English
will have more
Real Superpower: Rethinking
for Speakers of Other Languaginformation.
Our Role in Missions (2007)
es, will enhance OMSC’s comand Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutamunity life with her gifts of hospitality.
“Kathy and I are deeply honored by the ro, 1885–1934 (2005, the subject of his
opportunity to serve Jesus Christ and his doctoral dissertation), as well as numerous
worldwide people at OMSC,” Nelson said journal articles and book chapters. He is coauthor of Philosophical Theology in Eastabout joining the OMSC leadership team.
A native of northern Alabama, Nelson, West Dialogue (2000).
Nelson and Kathy are the parents of three
52, graduated from Vanderbilt University
with a bachelor of arts degree in philoso- adult daughters. —Daniel J. Nicholas
Dwight Baker Announces Retirement in June
Associate director Dwight Baker and his wife, Lois, who manages the center’s prayer
ministry, moved from California to OMSC in 2001, and a year later he commenced work
as program director and associate editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary
Research. In 2005 Dwight was named associate director. In June 2011 he will retire from
the directorship but continue as associate editor.
Associate director Dwight Baker (left) will retire in June
2011. He studied design plans (above) for reconstruction of
the third floor apartment of his home at 48 Starr Street in
New Haven. OMSC residents will occupy the three-bedroom
apartment, which overlooks Great Commission Hall.
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Overseas Ministries
Study Center
The William Howard
Doane Legacy
Society
Leaving a Lasting
Commitment to Missionary
Excellence
www.omsc.org/plannedgiving.html
Ghanaian Ministers
Continued from page two
young people and hopes that the resources
at OMSC and Yale Divinity School will expand his vision so that the book he is writing will be relevant to Ghanaian churches.
Ohene’s wife, Janet, who remained in
Ghana, leads a women’s conference, does
counseling with young women at church,
and manages a little bakery they have in
their house.
They are the parents of a nine-year-old
daughter, Ama, and seven-year-old son,
Kwesi. —Conan Yin
Jesuit Demonstrates
Continued from page three
Lucas discovered people’s ability to find joy
in the simplest gifts of life.
His Catholic spirituality confirms that consolation does not necessarily mean “happiness” in a literal sense. Desolation does not
imply that a person must be suffering.
Sometimes in pain, a person may be in consolation because of the humility that comes
from it. Pain reveals our true identity as a
creature who is connected with the whole
universe and as a child of God utterly dependent upon God’s grace.
At a time when the Roman Catholic
Church faces many risks and opportunities,
Lucas hopes that, as a moral theologian from
East Asia, he can help the church realize its
“catholic” commitment as a world church
that is in constant dialogue with other cultures and faiths. He wants to help his church
shape an informed conscience of the faithful
and find a unified Christian standpoint from a
wide spectrum of beliefs. —Conan Yin
Thank You, Cosponsors and Contributors!
April 16 to October 15, 2010
This list includes only churches, organizations, and missions agencies, not 103 individual donors.
COSPONSORS
Student Seminars on World Mission
Alliance Theological Seminary
Andover Newton Theological Seminary
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
Boston University School of Theology
Christian Theological Seminary
Columbia Theological Seminary
Concordia Seminary
Dordt College
Emmanuel School of Religion
Episcopal Divinity School
Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
Fuller Theological Seminary
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
The John Leland Center
Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
Memphis Theological Seminary
Moravian Theological Seminary
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
North Park Theological Seminary
Omega School of Urban and Global
Mission
Palmer Theological Seminary
Paulist Fathers Novitiate
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary
Protestant Episcopal Theological
Seminary in Virginia
Redeemer University College
Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Virginia Union University
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Union Theological Seminary, PSCE
Vanderbilt University
Wesley Theological Seminary
Yale Divinity School
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mileage, in good condition. For use
by OMSC’s properties and facilities
staff. Reply to: Raymond Sola, Property and Facilities Manager, OMSC,
rsola@omsc.org, (203) 285-1569.
CONTRIBUTORS
Organizations
Askew Family Investment Trust, Danvers, MA
Foundation for Theological Education in Southeast Asia
Hedlund Family Trust, Calmesa, CA
Institute for the Study of American
Evangelicals, Wheaton, IL
Lundman Family Foundation, Fredonia, WI
Churches
Connecticut unless otherwise noted
Agape Church for the Homeless, Bethany
Black Rock Congregational Church, Fairfield
Calvary Baptist Church, New Haven
Crystal Presbyterian Church, Palisades Park, NJ
First Korean Church, Cambridge, MA
Greenfield Hill Congregational Church, Fairfield
Long Island Korean United Methodist Church,
Commack, NY
Lord of the Hills Lutheran Church,
Centennial, CO
Naugatuck Valley Community Church,
Naugatuck
New Haven Korean Church, Hamden
New Haven Presbyterian Church, North Haven
Outreach Presbyterian Church, Middletown
The Pure Presbyterian Church of New York,
Flushing, NY
St. John’s Episcopal Church, New Haven
Short Beach Union Church, Branford
Trinity Evangelical Free Church, Woodbridge
United Church of Westville, New Haven
Mission Agencies
Contributed to OMSC residents
American Baptist Church—USA, International
Ministries
AMG International
Korea Presbyterian Mission, Kosin
Denomination
Lisu Christian Church of Myanmar
Missionary Benedictine Sisters
Myanmar Baptist Convention
Myanmar Council of Churches
Olive Baptist Church, Pensacola, Florida
Presbyterian Church of Korea Worldwide
Mission Ministry Department
SIM Korea
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Filipino Paints Scenes of Social, Political, and Religious Complexity
Emmanuel Garibay, the 2010–11
artist in residence at OMSC, was
born in Kidapawan, North Cotabato,
Philippines, to a father who was a
Methodist pastor and a mother who
worked in the city engineer’s office. When Emmanuel, or “Manny” as he prefers to be called, was
young, his family moved to Davao
City where others described him
as “charming and wild in so many
senses of the word.”
He studied sociology at the University of the Philippines. Although
social science did not become his
true passion, he acquired an acute
awareness of how personal lives
are deeply connected with social
institutions, class dynamics, and
cultural traditions.
After working two jobs as a
community developer and curator’s assistant, Emmanuel returned
to the University of the Philippines
to complete a degree in fine arts.
He also received a master of divinity degree from Union Theological
Seminary in Cavite in 1995.
One will never fail to meet ordinary people in his paintings: the
newsboy, the bus rider, the cigarette
vendor, the tired woman activist, the
glue-sniffing boy—breathing souls
struggling at the bottom of Philippine society.
As Garibay puts it, “It is the richness of the poor that I am drawn to
and which I am a part of, that I want
to impart.”
Emmanuel and his wife, Edna Jaojoco Garibay, whom he met when
she was a student of veterinary medicine, enjoy visiting museums and
interacting with artists while they Emmanuel Garibay paints every day (above) in a small art studio in OMSC’s Doane Hall.
are at OMSC. —Conan Yin
He introduced his art to Korean pastors (below) who attended an OMSC luncheon on October 4.
FISH—Faith, Institution, Society, and History: The Art of Emmanuel Garibay
An exhibition at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven
November 29, 2010, to January 28, 2011
Reception for the artist: Thursday, December 2, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Yale Institute of Sacred Music Great Hall