OMSC

OMSC has served missionaries and international church leaders for nearly 100 years. We would like to invite you to join OMSC’s international and interdenominational community for a time of spiritual renewal and professional challenge.

In 1922 the daughters of gospel hymn writer William Howard Doane founded OMSC in Ventnor, New Jersey. Relocated in 1987 to New Haven,Connecticut, one block from Yale University Divinity School and the renowned Day Missions Library, OMSC welcomes both long-term (one semester to a year) and short-term (less than a semester) residents. In our facilities you will find fully furnished apartments and a graduate-level noncredit educational program focused on intercultural Christian ministries. OMSC publishes the International Bulletin of Mission Research. With a circulation of more than 8,000, the IBMR is widely respected as a leading professional journal of mission research and reflection. E-journal and print subscribers live in more than 100 countries. Many of today’s foremost missiologists and mission thinkers appear both in the IBMR and as lecturers at OMSC.

Residents at OMSC live as a community. Missionaries and church leaders from around the world bring unique contributions, enriching all. Community life is guided by the principles of unity in Jesus Christ and fellowship in the work of his kingdom. Seminar discussion times and informal exchanges afford Western mission personnel opportunity to gain insight into the perspectives and concerns of seasoned non-Western mission and church leaders.