Edgar and Donna Moros
Calle Bravo Murillo, 85
28003 Madrid
Spain
Email: Edgar Moros
Email: Donna Moros

Donna and Edgar will be on interpretation assignment in the United States from September 2006 to June 2007. To invite them to speak, see their contact information on the Mission Speakers page.

Donna Moros and Edgar Moros Ruano are embarking on a new and exciting adventure as people in mission from the "Americas" (Donna, U.S.A.-born in Niagara Falls, New York, and Edgar a native Venezuelan) to Spain. They are invited by the Evangelical Church of Spain and the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain to teach and be coprincipals of the Seminario Evangelico Unido de Teologia (SEUT). Donna is teaching in the areas of mission and ministry, developing extension materials, and organizing field work supervision with local pastors, as well as a continuing education program. Edgar is lecturing and tutoring students, developing extension materials in the areas of dogmatics and church history, assisting in the supervision of ministerial and personal development of students all over Spain, participating in the development of the publishing department, and acting as a visiting lecturer at the Pontifical University of Comillas, a Roman Catholic University.

Letters from
Edgar and Donna Moros

• April 2007
• January 2007
• July 2006
• July 2004
• November 2001
• September 2001

Edgar says, "I have great expectations for my work in Spain: sharing in the life of the Evangelical Church of Spain and learning from their experience as a minority church in a Roman Catholic country as well as sharing my own experience in Latin America with that sister church, and sharing my training and life formation in the Venezuelan church with the seminary community and the church at large. I am interested in studying the common roots which could help me to better understand my own culture. In spite of the negative aspects of Spanish colonization, there are great values to be lifted up in our commonality of language and cultural values."

Edgar brings a great deal of insight and experience to his new position in Spain. For the past twenty-seven years he has been a professor of philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela. From 1966–1972 he was a pastor in the Presbytery of Venezuela and for the past fourteen years he has been a pastor in the Western Presbytery, Iglesia Presbiteriana de Venezuela. Edgar has held administrative positions at both the presbytery and synod levels. He received his BS degree in biology from Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, and his MDiv and ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Edgar received his "Licenciatura" in philosophy from Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and a PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Donna continues her work in theological education "at a distance." This is a new model of theological education emerging in Latin America and Africa where the construction of new seminaries would be quite costly. "At a distance" is akin to an extension program where the teachers travel to the students. There are also learning centers throughout the region. Donna is particularly excited about this model of theological education because it provides lay leadership training at a very low cost and empowers small churches into new discipleship patterns. This model of education especially helps women fulfill their vocation.

Prior to her new position in Spain, Donna served as a PC(USA) missionary in theological and Christian education in Barranquilla, Colombia, and Merida,Venezuela. She served churches in Dover, Mountainside, and Elizabeth, New Jersey, and has worked as a bilingual editor for the United Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tennessee. Donna also served as executive director of the East Nashville Cooperative Ministry in Nashville. She earned her BA degree in applied music as a voice major at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, and her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Later Donna went back to school and received her MEd degree in music education from Tennessee State University and her DMin degree in church history from Vanderbilt Divinity School.

Donna is a clergy member of Middle Tennessee Presbytery and Edgar is a clergy member of Presbiterio Occidental de Venezuela. Donna and Edgar have three adult children, Matilde, Edgar, and Donna, as well as five grandchildren.

Birthdays:
Donna - December 27
Edgar - October 25