Dr. Arthur Glasser
Littleton, Colorado – December, 2009 – OMF International Mourns the Loss of Dr. Arthur Glasser, National Director of OMF International from 1951-1970.
Dr. Arthur Glasser, age, age 95, of Pasadena, CA and Seattle, WA died in Seattle on December 8, 2009. He was most recently the Dean Emeritus of the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. After graduating from Cornell University in Civil Engineering in 1936, Glasser experienced a call to cross-cultural missions. He furthered his education and graduated from Faith Theological Seminary in 1942. After two years as a Navy chaplain in the South Pacific, he joined the China Inland Mission (now OMF International). Following the expulsion of missionaries from China in 1949, Glasser taught at Columbia Bible College in Columbia, South Carolina.
In 1955 he became the Assistant Home Director of OMF International (U.S.) was Home Director from 1960-1970. In 1970, he became the second dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller, where he served until his retirement in 1980. He retired as dean, but he continued to teach and mentor students until 1999 when he moved to Seattle. He also served as the President of the American Society of Missiology. Dr. Glasser invested more than sixty years of his ministry in the areas of missions, missions executive ministry, theology, educator, evangelist, writer, editor and speaker.
His wife, Alice Oliver died in 2006. He is survived by his children, Sam Glasser (Eileen Meiners), Ann Glasser (James Caporaso) and Carol Glasser (John Ginn) and further by his grandchildren, Jeffrey and David Grant, and Hannah and Alan Ginn.
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