Bruce and Donna Hess are Missionaries in Residence and represent OMS International. They live on campus at the corner of Campus Heights Road and Centerville Road. Their blue shingle house is directly across the street from the HC Help Desk.

Bruce and Donna are available for counseling, encouraging and praying with students desiring an intercultural ministry opportunity during and/or following college. Their 45 years of missionary ministry in Latin America, the Orient and Africa allow them to provide personal, experienced information about ministry in missions for both U.S. and overseas involvement.

Want to learn more about missions or just talk? Bruce and Donna can be found at 7 pm Sunday for Koinonia in the Chapel, at their Monday Supper Table in the HC Cafeteria from 5-6:30pm and on Wednesday at the GCF meeting from 6:30-7:30 pm. Contact them anytime via e-mail at bruce.hess@houghton.edu.

About Bruce and Donna

Bruce and Donna Hess serve as assistants to the regional directors for OMS International in the Northeast U. S. From their office in Houghton, New York, they promote the worldwide work of OMS. They also serve as Missionaries in Residence at Houghton College, while facilitating the development of the Northeast Region Campus Ministry Center.

Bruce, a third-generation missionary, became involved with OMS in 1959 when he spent a summer in Colombia. In 1963, following a year of language school in Costa Rica, he and Donna went to Colombia as career missionaries.

Besides teaching in the OMS Biblical Seminary of Colombia, Bruce pioneered and pastored several churches. His interest in literature led him to establish the Inter-American Bookstore. Ordained by the OMS-affiliated Colombian church, he served as a district leader and later as treasurer and president. In 1969, he initiated an Every Community for Christ program of door-to-door evangelism and church planting. He was named field superintendent in 1973 and field director in 1978.

Bruce and Donna graduated from Nyack College, each receiving a bachelor’s degree in missions. Bruce also received a bachelor of arts degree from Houghton College. In 1983, he received a master’s degree from Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York. That December, OMS assigned the couple for two years to the newly formed faculty of the OMS Evangelical Biblical Seminary in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Bruce structured and directed the practical work program and taught courses in theology, evangelism, homiletics, Andean culture and missions.

While raising their children, Donna also worked closely with Bruce in various capacities such as student counselor, mission hostess and in ministries with children and women. From 1986 to 1988, the Hesses served as campus representatives for OMS at Houghton College in Houghton, New York. In July of 1988, they moved to the regional headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and served 17 years as OMS regional directors. In August 2005, they returned to Houghton, New York, to continue their ministry with OMS.

The Hesses have three married children and eight grandchildren.

For more OMS information visit the web site at www.omsinternational.org