Glenn Schwartz, Ph.D.

Glenn Schwartz was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1938. He was reared on a farm and graduated from high school in 1956. His call to Christian service came through reading the story of five martyred missionaries in Ecuador in 1956. After several years of secular employment, he attended Messiah College where he earned a B.A. in History and Religion.

During the 1960's, he served for seven and one half years as a missionary with the Brethren in Christ Church in both Zambia and Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia). In 1973, he earned the Master of Missiology degree from Fuller Theological Seminary's School of World Mission (now the School of Intercultural Studies). He then served as assistant to the Dean and International Student Advisor at the Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission from 1973 to 1979.

In 1983 he became the founding executive director of World Mission Associates and continues to hold that position to the present time. From 1991 to 1997 he and his wife, Verna, lived in Reading, England from where they conducted an itinerant ministry, primarily to East, Central and Southern Africa. They presently live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and continue a ministry of encouragement to church and mission leaders. The primary emphasis of the ministry is raising awareness regarding avoiding or overcoming unhealthy dependency in cross-cultural ministry.