Evyn Adams is a retired professor, missionary and pastor. He has been working with OMS International since 1993, teaching at OMS seminaries and advising in curriculum building. In 1993, he taught at Chungtai Theological College in Taichung, Taiwan, and in 1994 at Allahabad Bible Seminary and SAIACS (South Asia Institute for Advanced Christian Studies) in India. From 1995 to 1997, he taught at the Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary in Russia, where he was dean.
Evyn has taught intensive courses in Christian history, theology, Bible and philosophy as needed in Bangalore, Calcutta, and Allahabad, India; Moscow; Central Asia; Hong Kong; and the Philippines. He has also taught Christianity in East Asia.
Evyn was born in Japan to missionary parents. He served as a missionary of the Board of Global Missions of the United Methodist Church for 15 years, from 1951 to 1967, in Hokkaido, Japan. He worked with the United Church of Christ in Japan, engaging in pioneer evangelism and planting of new churches. He was the founder and director of HOREMCO, a mass communications program of radio, film and print evangelism. In 1967, he turned the program over to Japanese leadership. The ministry of HOREMCO still continues in Hokkaido, being paid for by individuals and churches in Hokkaido.
In 1993, he retired from teaching religion for 22 years at the University of Hawaii and from 12 years as pastor of the Lanakila Congregational Church, a Hawaiian congregation. He is also retired from the Desert Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Evyn is a graduate of Asbury College (1941) and Asbury Theological Seminary (1948), and he received his doctorate in philosophy of religion from Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, in 1969. His doctoral thesis was a research into the problems of communicating the Gospel in Japan.
He has three daughters and five grandchildren, most of whom live in Hawaii. His wife Joy passed away in October 1992. On December 30, 1993, he and Neva Simms were married. Neva passed away in November 2008. Neva had two sons and two grandchildren.
