Glenn and Wendy Lorenz, both ordained elders in the Free Methodist Church, were appointed career missionaries in April 2015. In January 2017, the Lorenz family moved to Costa Rica to work with Free Methodist World Missions, where Glenn coordinated the development of healthy leaders for FMWM Latin America. In October 2022, Glenn began serving as the Africa Area Associate Director. His work focuses on recruiting, onboarding, training, and coaching missionary teams to live in West Africa. He also assists in supporting and developing Free Methodist leaders in West Africa.
Wendy served for the past seven years in FMWM Latin America by ministering to the needs of missionary families, focusing on the needs of children raised in an international and highly mobile environment. While she continues this ministry, she began working for the Africa area in January of 2024, where she will serve the families of our FMWM Africa missionaries. Wendy’s ministry helps missionary parents navigate some of the uniqueness of their child’s experience as a Third Culture Kid (TCK). She also leads a global TCK Care team, providing our FMWM missionary parents with encouragement and resources.
Children: Libby, Isaac, Jakin, Ellie
Give to Church Planting & Development
Pray For
- future FM missionaries to Africa who will respond wholeheartedly to the Lord’s call
- church leaders and missionaries to seek the Lord with all their hearts
- the Lord to continue mobilizing workers
- wisdom and discernment for Glenn and Wendy in their roles
- wisdom in identifying and empowering workers to serve in Africa
- Wendy and the TCK global team as they care for and equip families
- God to show all the FMWM TCKs how much He loves them
- Glenn and Wendy’s four children to learn trust in God for all of life’s circumstances
Recent Newsletters
Recent Heartbeat Articles
From Darkness to Life
How does one go from worshiping the spirits of the dead to sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ? To understand this transformation, I share the story of John Habibu Saidy, a student at Evart Bible College in Tanzania. To provide for his wife and four children (two sets...
Still Thriving
Recently when listening to my favorite daily devotional, I heard a story about Francis Asbury. When John Wesley was looking for someone to come to America to encourage the fledgling Methodists in the new world, 26-year-old Francis Asbury raised his hand and took on...
Created in His Image
In the imago Dei, the image of God, this was how God created us, male and female. Transformational churches around the world are reaching out to men, women, boys and girls in their communities with the good news that all are created in the imago Dei. So what does this...
Following Shiprah and Puah
Before Moses and Aaron, there were Shiphrah and Puah, two midwives who stood up to the most powerful leader in the world at the time (Exodus 1). Pharaoh isn’t named. The author draws the contrast between the powerful and the powerless: a powerful tyrant against the...