Faculty and Staff
Dr. Eugene Bunkowske - Fiechtner Endowed Chair of Christian Outreach
The person who is appointed to the chair of outreach is responsible for coordinating and the further development of the Master of Arts in Christian Outreach at Concordia University. Begun in June 2002, it is the only degree of its kind in the LCMS. The chair is also responsible for intentional contact with the church at large in the area of outreach. Mission Sundays, outreach workshops, congregational, circuit, district, and synodical outreach speaking presentations fill the schedule.
Dr. Bunkowske served as the Graduate Professor of Missions and the Director Emeritus of the PhD Program in Missiology at Concordia Theological Seminary (CTS) in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He also served as a Vice President of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod from 1989 to 1998. From 1982-2002 he taught mission theology and cross cultural ministry at CTS. Before 1982, Dr. Bunkowske and his family served as missionaries in Africa for 22 years. During the first years in Africa, Dr. Bunkowske worked in Nigeria. He served as an evangelistic missionary, school manager, built a hospital, worked with Yala coworkers in reducing the Yala language to writing and with expatriate and Yala coworkers in Yala literacy and Bible Translation. He assisted the Lutheran Bible Translators in establishing their work in Liberia and Sierra Leone and was loaned by the LCMS to the United Bible Societies (UBS) for the work of Bible Translation Consultancy in West Africa. During his final years in Africa, Dr. Bunkowske served as one of the four UBS world Translation Coordinators. His area of responsibility was the 60 plus countries in the African Continent that he served from Nairobi, Kenya. He has lectured and conducted workshops and seminars in over half of the countries in Africa, many parts of the USA and in many other parts of the world. His Topics in Yala Grammar, together with the ten books that he edited for the Mission and Communication Congress series and two books for the Lutheran Society for Missiology are recognized as making an outstanding contribution in the field of Linguistics, Missions and Communication. Dr. Bunkowske and his wife, Bernice, have four married children, nine grandchildren, and reside in Maplewood, Minnesota. You can contact Gene at 651-603-6252 or via email at Bunkowske@CSP.edu.
OHSCO Faculty and Staff
Founder: Dr. Oswald Hoffmann
Current Faculty:
Dr. Mark Press
Mr. Phil Johnson
Current Staff:
Mrs. Melanie Vasterling
Mr. Norman Piatti
