Dr. Dawson’s Biography

DAVID G. DAWSON January, 2006
30 Willow Drive, New Wilmington, PA 16142 USA david.dawson@shenango.org

Education:

• 1969 Westminster College BA Theology
  New Wilmington, PA (Honors)
• 1972 Pittsburgh Theological Seminary MDiv Theology
  Pittsburgh, PA (cum laude)
• 1987 Yale Divinity School STM Missiology
  New Haven, CT (magna cum laude)
• 1997 Westminster College DD honorary degree
  New Wilmington, PA

Ministry:

Ordination in the United Presbyterian Church USA – May 14, 1972

• 1972 – 1981 Pastor Jamestown Presbyterian Church
  Jamestown, PA
• 1981 – 1992 Mission Funding Counselor Synod of the Northeast
  Presbyterian Church (USA)
• 1992 – present Executive Presbyter Presbytery of Shenango
  Synod of the Trinity, PC(USA)

Mission Study Travel:

• Israel-Palestine ‘72, ‘83, ‘95
• Dominican Republic ‘80, ‘88
• Sudan ‘96, ‘98, ’01, ’04, ‘05
• Lebanon-Syria ‘79, ‘83, ‘97, 02
• Cuba ‘86, ‘88, ‘92
• China, Singapore, Thailand ‘02
• Japan ‘77 Egypt ’83, ‘05
• Kenya-Ethiopia ‘76 Mexico ‘86

Books:

• “Counting the Cost,” chapter in A History of Presbyterian Missions 1944 – 2007, Geneva Press, 2008, edited by Scott Sunquist and Caroline Becker.

Journals:

• “The Church and the Edinburgh Missionary Conference” publication pending in Missiology, April, 2011.
• “Mission Funding in the Future” The Presbyterian Outlook, July 26, 2004
• “Mission and Money in the Early Twentieth Century” The Journal of Presbyterian History, Spring, 2002
• “Funding Mission in the Early Twentieth Century” International Bulletin of Missionary Research, October, 2000
• “A Recurring Issue of Mission Administration” Missiology, October, 1997
• “Needed: A Re-orientation of the Funding System” Presbyterian Outlook, June 26, 1995
• “Mission Philanthropy, Selected Giving and Presbyterians” American Presbyterians (Journal of Presbyterian History) (Summer, 1990 and Fall, 1991)