Hastings and Assistant Director Easten Law see the center's new relationship with the Seminary as an opportunity to support and learn from one another. It publishes a respected research journal, translates the work of global scholars into English, holds an artist-in-residency program, and offers a digital certificate program. Today, the center is engaged in a range of work aimed at amplifying and interpreting the voices of World Christianity. Over time, its focus expanded to include scholarship and research, prompting a 1987 move to New Haven, close to Yale Divinity School's Day Missions Library. The center was founded in 1922 in Ventnor, New Jersey as a place of rest and rejuvenation for American missionaries. “There is the formal, academic part of the program, but then there is the impact from the sustained interactions with the larger community that happen over tea, meals, walking to chapel and going to the library.” “Having these leaders and scholars from the world church here on campus is really when the magic happens,” says Tom Hastings, the center’s executive director. This year’s cohort of 10 will include researchers from Australia, India, Malawi, Myanmar, Nigeria, South Africa, and South Korea, and an artist in residence from Tanzania. Later in the summer, the center’s signature Residential Study Program will bring to campus scholars, theologians, and church leaders from the around the world for a year of research. Those interested in attending the lecture may do so in person or online via livestream. Anderson, a much-admired scholar who led the center from 1976 to 2000.
On June 9, OMSC will hold a centenary celebration that will include an open house, dinner, and a special lecture honoring Gerald H. By exploring the dramatic growth and diverse expressions of Christianity across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, OMSC hopes the West will be able to better learn and fellowship with friends from across the global church. The center has a decidedly global, 21 st-century mission: Engaging in God’s mission by amplifying the voices of the world Christian movement. The house at 58 Mercer Street, which was built for Princeton Seminary’s first professor, Archibald Alexander, recently became headquarters for the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC), a renowned research institute that became a program of the Seminary in 2021 after nearly a century as an independent nonprofit. Now it is also playing a role in the Seminary’s future. The 200-year-old Alexander House is grounded in Princeton Theological Seminary’s history.
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