SIM Missionaries Guide Children in Pakistan OMSC and Family
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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 Continued on page two 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 Continued on page two 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). 2 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 Continued on page six 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, Continued on page six 3 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 ([email protected]) or Jin Bong Kim ([email protected]), or telephone them at (203) 624-6672. 4 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 [email protected] or (203) 624-6672. ignorance. This is sad.” Much of John’s The Hearth is published twice a year by the Overseas Ministries Study Center. scholarship strives to bridge this gap of Visit www.OMSC.org for more information and to view these photos in color. knowledge among different cultures. Jonathan J. Bonk John’s wife, Christel, accompanied him Dwight P. Baker Executive Director Associate Director during some of his trips to Eastern Europe. Although it was challenging for her to take Judy C. Stebbins Daniel J. Nicholas care of the children alone while John deDirector of Finance and Housing Director of Communications and Publications voted his time to traveling and research, she Raymond W. Sola 490 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 remembers those years of missionary work Property Maintenance Supervisor (203) 624-6672, [email protected] as “never boring and very enriching.” 5 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. 6 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 TRUCK WANTED Immediate need for donation of a fullsized pickup truck. New or used. Low mileage, in good condition. For use by OMSC’s properties and facilities staff. Reply to: Raymond Sola, Property and Facilities Manager, OMSC, [email protected], (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 Searchable Index Now Online for the IBMR To find any article or book review published in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research from January 1977 to the present, go the IBMR’s newly released online index. 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For a free e-mail subscription, sign up at www.omsc.org/notices. 7 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