Team Members
The following are team and associate team members serving with World Mission Associates.
In January 2000 Dr. Chris Little joined the WMA team. Chris’ responsibility includes assisting with seminars and consultations on dependency and self-reliance for church and mission leaders. In 2003 Dr. Little graduated from the Fuller Seminary School of World Mission with a dissertation on issues of dependency. The title of his dissertation is Mission in the Way of Paul: Biblical Mission for the Church in the Twenty-First Century. Dr. Little currently teaches at the Columbia International University in Columbia, South Carolina.
In January 2002 Rev. Glenn Davis joined the WMA team. For ten years Rev. Davis lived and worked in French-speaking West Africa. During that time, he was on a Bible translation team with Wycliffe Bible Translators. The Davises now live in Central California where Rev. Davis is active in various mission activities related to missions awareness in the local church. In addition, he is translating WMA materials on dependency and self-reliance into the French language. He maintains a relationship with churches in West Africa seeking to encourage church and mission leaders.
Rev. Glenn Schwartz lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and works out of the main office of World Mission Associates. He serves as Executive Director and his wife Verna serves as part-time secretary for WMA. In addition to overseeing WMA administration, he has traveled extensively conducting seminars and consultations on dependency and self-reliance for church and mission leaders.
Brad and Maxine Waldman joined the WMA team in January 2002. The Waldmans have a ministry in the Caribbean and North America training leaders for children’s ministry. They promote healthy self-reliance as demonstrated in the work of the Caribbean Children’s Ministry Network based in Trinadad.
Jonathan and Leah Zulu are Zambians living in Lusaka, Zambia. They are associates on the WMA team. Jonathan is a businessman who has dedicated himself to teaching about issues of dependency and self-reliance among church and mission leaders in Africa. He has experienced unusual acceptance among church leaders as he raises awareness about healthy self-reliance.
In mid 2005, Dr. Robert Reese joined the ministry of WMA as Director of the World Mission Resource Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dr. Reese holds a PhD in Missiology degree from Mid America Baptist Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee. He served as a church-planting missionary for twenty-one years in Zimbabwe, Central Africa.
In September 2006, Rev. Patricio Paredes joined the WMA team as the person in charge of the office administration and the Hispanic related ministries of WMA. Rev. Paredes is a native of Costa Rica in Central America and has worked for more than 20 years in pastoral, teaching, missions and administration related ministries in Costa Rica and Latin America. He will be in charge of translating WMA’s materials to Spanish and developing the Hispanic outreach of WMA.