Jane Holslag
Hohenbrucher Dorfstr. 9
D 16766 Kremmen
Germany
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Jane is on study leave from her assignment with Lithuanian Christian College. She is completing a PhD in east German church history. She plans to return to LCC in July 2008.

Since mid-1997 Jane Holslag has been teaching at the Lithuanian Christian College in Klaipeda, Lithuania. She teaches in both the English and Theology departments of the college. She is also working cooperatively with congregations in the Evangelical Reformed Church of Lithuania and the theological faculty at the University of Klaipeda. From 1990 until 1997, she was working with the Berlin Fellowship Program in Berlin, Germany and as Coordinator for Ecumenical Fellowship in central and eastern Europe to establish relationships between congregations in the United States and congregations in eastern Germany and Poland.

Klaipeda, population 220,000, is the only port city in Lithuania, the largest and southern-most of the three Baltic states. Bordered by the Kaliningrad Oblast and Poland to the south, Belarus to the south and east, and Latvia to the north, Lithuania is a rather flat and primarily agricultural land dotted with lakes and forests. In Lithuania, the predominant Christian tradition is Roman Catholicism, although Lutheran, Reformed, and Baptist churches persisted through the Soviet era. Since independence in 1992, some free churches and charismatic movements have also established themselves in the country.

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Letters from
Jane Holslag

• April 2008
• February 2008
• September 2007
• April 2007
• December 2006
• July 2006
• March 2006
• August 2005
• May 2005
• November 2004
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• December 2000
• October 1999
• March 1999

Lithuania Christian College was founded in 1991, and in June 2000 the fourth graduating class entered Lithuanian society prepared in a unique way to serve the country as it develops as a free nation. Lithuania Christian College is an independent, four-year liberal arts college owned by the Lithuania Christian Fund. With funding help from a Canadian foundation and voluntary donations, the college offers business and English as majors and religious studies as a minor. Students are primarily Lithuanian, although the student body also includes young men and women from other parts of the former Soviet Union, as well as some exchange students who come each semester from North America. The general education curriculum seeks to integrate the liberal arts tradition with Christian faith. The faculty come from a variety of church backgrounds; most of them are volunteers from the West, some of whom are Presbyterians.

A native of Denver, Colorado, Jane received her BA in English and education from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. She worked with youth and students at First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs and served as associate pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church in Irvine, California, before her appointment to Central Europe. She is a member of the Presbytery of Los Ranchos.

Birthday: May 7