World Missions prof to lecture at Grove City

Staff report

grove city, pa.

Grove City College will host J. Nelson Jennings, Ph.D., professor of World Missions at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, at 7 p.m. Monday in Ketler Auditorium of the Pew Fine Arts Center on campus.

Jennings’ lecture, “A Missional Theology of Civility,” is sponsored by The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College: Character and Formation Working Group. The organization is co-chaired by Paul Kemeny, professor of religion and humanities, and Steven Jones, associate professor of sociology.

President of Presbyterian Mission International and a missionary to Japan, Jennings has earned degrees from Vanderbilt University, Covenant Theological Seminary and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

He is an expert on administrative leadership for mission-focused organizations and publications and is researching U.S. Christians’ view of Islam.

For more information about Jennings, visit www.covenantseminary.edu/faculty/nelson.jennings.