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Project Director
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Dr.
Jonathan J. Bonk is the Executive Director of the Overseas
Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and editor of the
International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Before his relocation
to the United States in 1997, he served as Professor of Global Christian
Studies at Providence College and Seminary in Canada. He was raised
in Ethiopia, where he and his wife also served as missionaries from
1974-1976. He is an ordained Mennonite minister, and has served as President
of both the American Society of Missiology and the Association of Professors
of Mission. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews, and has published five books, the best known of which is Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem (Orbis 1991), now in its eleventh printing. A second edition is being prepared. As Project Director for the Dictionary of African Christian Biography, a multilingual (English, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Arabic), electronic, non-proprietary reference tool, he travels extensively each year in Africa. He also serves as editor of the Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries, to be published in 2007 as Volume 9 in Routledge’s Religion and Society Series. He is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A.) and the University of Aberdeen (Ph.D). The Bonks have two children, both of whom reside in Canada. Susan is a self-employed business person in Winnipeg, and James is studying Chinese at McGill University in Montreal. |
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Mrs. Michèle Sigg is the Project
Manager for the Dictionary of African Christian Biography
and has been working on the project since the New Haven
office opened in October 2000. She moved to France with her missionary
parents when she was eleven. After graduating from French public high
school in France, she attended Covenant College in Tennessee. Following
two years in the trilingual translation program (I.S.I.T.) at the Institut
Catholique in Paris, she went on to complete a B.A. in French and Spanish
at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Master's in French Literature.
While at university she met her husband Sam, also from a missionary
family, who grew up in Zaire and France.
Before moving to New Haven, she worked as a translator and a French teacher at the university and high school levels. Working in coordination with Project Luke fellows and African scholars, she edits and incorporates all the DACB articles into the website. She serves as webmaster and graphic designer as well as translator for the French version of the Dictionary. She is also a potter. The Siggs now have three children, Johan, age 10, Annie, age nine, and Catherine, born on June 29, 2003. |
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Catherine Amélie (twenty-one months old), born June
29, 2003, with her brother Johan (11) and her sister Annie (10). Our three
fabulous kids!
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