Surely the original vision of Gene Dulin has touched more lives on both sides of the Atlantic than even he could have imagined in the early days of the Toronto Christian Mission. Here at Emmanuel, our Dean, Eleanor Daniel, regularly goes on these teaching missions, and other members of the faculty have served as well. My experience in Europe is but a microcosm of the sense of globalization that exists at Emmanuel School of Religion. Today Emmanuel graduates serve in approximately thirty different countries. Half of our faculty have served as missionaries.
International students broaden our understanding of the church universal.
Furthermore the understanding of missions at Emmanuel is not limited to cross-cultural mission work. We have taken to heart the words of General Simatoupong of Indonesia who Lesslie Newbigin overheard at a world missions conference. The General had listened to Westerners discussing the global missionary situation. Many years ago those marvelous women of the Fig Tree Fellowship created a lectureship at Emmanuel called, The Mission of the Church. A survey of the lecturers and their topics over the years reveals that mission is understood in its broad biblical sense, i.e., going into all the world.