Tom and Judy Harvey
25 Hayfield Road
Oxford OX2 6TT  England
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Tom and Judy Harvey have been under appointment as mission co-workers since 1997. Until the summer of 2008, they served at Trinity Theological College in Singapore. Now Tom is dean of the Overseas Center for Mission Studies in Oxford England, which celebrated its 25th anniversary the week of Tom's arrival.

With over 140 part-time or full-time students working towards their master’s of philosophy or Ph.D., OCMS has a graduate program larger than most university departmental doctoral programs with research into areas as diverse as displaced youth in Romania, HIV/AIDS in Africa, conflict resolution in Kenya, and biblical hermeneutics and the Anglican Church of Malaysia.

Such a diverse and large task would be impossible anywhere but in Oxford. Oxford is home to one of the leading universities of the world, and it is made up of and surrounded by leading colleges, universities, research centers with leading scholars whose academic diversity can embrace OCMS’s global reality. Like many other research centers in England, OCMS works in tandem with universities that register and confer master’s and doctoral degrees. Through the University of Wales OCMS offers traditional research masters and doctoral degrees, and through City University of London masters and doctoral degrees in professional practice where full-time professionals research while continuing on in their professions. The job of the dean is to coordinate and oversee all this, which entails working with the students, OCMS faculty, staff, a host of supervisors, and two universities.

Letters from
Tom and Judy Harvey

• April 2009
• November 2008
• July 2008
• April 2008
• November 2007
• August 2007
• April 2007
• November 2006
• July 2006
• February 2006
• June 2005
• November 2004
• December 2003
• July 2003
• December 2002
• May 2002
• August 2001
• December 2000
• February 2000
• December 1999

While at Trinity in Singapore Tom lectured in systematic theology and ethics and worked with the Singapore Presbyterian Church through the training and mentoring of future pastors. He gave seminars in local churches, chaired the synod theological commission, and is an advisor to the National Council of Churches Singapore.

Judy taught English as a second language and led Bible studies in Singapore.

In their role as wardens of the married-student quarters, Tom and Judy also worked with married students from outside Singapore.

Trinity is an interdenominational seminary that serves the entire Southeast and East Asian regions. Over half its students come from outside Singapore, from 21 countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Philippines, Cambodia and China. Trinity is an important regional training center for pastors and church officials, having trained more than a 1,000 pastors, church workers and missionaries serving around the world.

Tom has a B.A. in Christian education and philosophy from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and an M.Div. from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He also holds an M.A. in theology from Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, and a Ph.D. in theology and ethics at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Judy has a B.A. in psychology from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

Tom is a clergy member of New Hope Presbytery.

Tom and Judy have three children, Joseph (at Davidson College), Paul (at Wheaton College), and Emma, who attends school in Singapore.

Birthdays:
Tom - June 2
Judy - October 20
Joseph - November 3, 1986
Paul - August 13, 1988
Emma - February 1, 1993