Faculty

Lois E. Olena D.Min. Project Coordinator Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Jewish Studies Contact: email 417.268.1084 Education: B.S., Valley Forge Christian College M.A., Gratz College D.Min., Assemblies of God Theological Seminary

Involved in numerous avenues and positions of church ministry since her youth, Dr. Olena brings a broad spectrum of ministry experience to her role as D.Min. project coordinator and faculty member at AGTS. She has published Holocaust curricula and poetry, a chapter on the history of AG race relations in the book We’ve Come This Far: Reflections on the Pentecostal Tradition and Racial Reconciliation and Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restoration: Multidisciplinary Studies from a Pentecostal Perspective, and also the official biography of Dr. Stanley M. Horton, Stanley M. Horton: Shaper of Pentecostal Theology. She also teaches courses in Jewish Studies and Theology at Evangel University and AGTS and served for several years as editor of AGTS' e-journal, Encounter: Journal for Pentecostal Ministry. Lois also serves as Executive Director for the Society for Pentecostal Studies.

"I love fostering a sense of spiritual heritage and ‘response-ability’—through an increased understanding of the Jewish roots of Christian faith, a grasp of church history that appreciates the interrelatedness of Judaism and Christianity, a Hebraic approach to Scripture that accurately communicates the mission of God for world redemption, and a Jewish-friendly presentation of the gospel." — Lois Olena


Valley Forge Christian College (VFCC) Homecoming Chapel
Message: October 22, 2010:
http://vfcc.edu/campuslife/?p=webcastArchive&id=477&type=video

AGTS Chapel Message 3/19/09:
http://www.agts.edu/resources/sermons2008_2009.html

New Anti-Semitism (topic of my AGTS doctoral project):
http://newantisemitism.org/about.html (see other links to
Holocaust bibliography and poetry)

Current Issue of Encounter Journal:
http://www.encounterjournal.com/current.html

Stanley Horton Resources:
http://gospelpublishing.com/store/startitem.cfm?item=020564&cat=GPINDEX&mastercat=&path=GPINDEX
(Biography)

http://ifphc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=biographies.StanleyHorton (Bibliography)

http://www.agts.edu/more/horton/ (AGTS Endowment)

http://www.agts.edu/resources/sermons2009_2010.html
(Legacy Leaders Chapel - two messages)

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