Meet Your RG LA Pastors-to-Missionaries

A long-standing part of the ReachGlobal Latin America family -- faithfully serving as missionaries in Venezuela from 1971-2000 and as ENHANCE team members since 2001 -- George and Donna Warren probably aren't strangers to most of the RG LA staff. However, do you know how they serve you in their current role as Pastors-to-Missionaries (PTMs) for Latin America?

What do PTMs do?
As part of the ENHANCE team, PTMs come alongside missionaries to provide support, strengthen, and encourage them in their walk with the Lord. While they do work for ReachGlobal, they are are careful to maintain confidentiality in their interactions with LA staff.

The nitty-gritty of their role includes:

• Visiting with missionaries on the field
• Attending debriefing sessions for missionaries returning on home assignment to the States
• Crisis debriefing
• Assisting in the candidate process -- occasionally attending REV and PT Live
• Working towards conflict resolution
• Advocating for missionary care in churches
• Walking alongside missionaries going through difficult times
• Ensuring necessary counseling occurs when needed
• Providing tools for self-care and healthy teams (such as a the Healthy Teams Toolbox)
• Encouraging missionaries to take needed rest

What is missionary health all about?
According to George, it all comes down to the heart -- having a transparent walk with the Lord. Reading the Bible and obeying God's Word. And walking the journey with others -- having a handful of people with whom you can talk in confidence and pray in earnest.


Why might you contact George & Donna (your Latin America PTMs), for example?

• For help with emotional or mental issues or stressful situations in your ministry or personal life
• For support throughout a ministry change or ministry decision
• For post-traumatic stress counseling
• For counsel in family issues and decisions -- from children returning to the States for college to caring for aging parents
• For conflict resolution
• For a field visit from George and Donna!

While travel to the field has been difficult in the past, George and Donna love to spend time with you (the RG LA staff) in the field -- and they are more equipped to do so at this point. They have received an invitation to visit with staff in Costa Rica in November, and they welcome and encourage invitations to visit other LA locations, too.

How should you contact them?

• Email -- George.Warren@efca.org and Donna.Warren@efca.org
• Skype -- gewarrenps139
• Phone -- (714) 256-4668

For George and Donna, PTM is not a job. It's being part of a family and a ministry. They desire to be there and available for their RG LA family whenever and wherever needed.