Dr. David Dawson
Executive Presbyter

• Biographical Information
• List of Essays
• Bibliography for Essays

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

Publications:

• “Mission Funding in the Future”
• The Presbyterian Outlook, July 26, 2004
• “A Mission Funding System for the 21st Century”
• Paper presented to the Yale-Edinburgh Group, New College, Edinburgh,
  July 2, 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 April, 1997
• "Needed: A Re-orientation of the Funding System"
• Presbyterian Outlook June 26, 1995
• "Mission Philanthropy, Selected Giving and Presbyterians"
• American Presbyterians Part 1 (Summer, 1990); Part 2 (Fall, 1991)