God's World

African Americans in World Missions

Links & Resources

Below are resources for learning more about overseas missions. This is neither a complete list, nor a full endorsement of the opinions expressed on these pages, but merely an aid as you work to learn more.

Bible Studies

Mission Bible Study 1: An Affair of the Heart

Mission Bible Study 2: Wholesome Care

Mission Bible Study 3: The Creation of Culture

Mission Bible Study 4: God's Love for All Cultures

Mission Bible Study 5: Competent to Minister

Mission Bible Study 6: Spiritual Armor

Books

Free at Last? The Gospel in the African-American Experience, 2nd ed.
Carl F. Ellis Jr.

The Black Man?s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State
Basil Davidson

Black Man's Religion: Can Christianity be Afrocentric?
Glenn Usry & Craig S. Keener

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa
Lamin Sanneh

Organic Faith: A Call to Authentic Christianity
Ron Mitchell

Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of African Americans
Wilmore, Gayraud S.

Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
Volf, Miroslav

Where the Nations Meet: The Church in a Multicultural World
Rhodes, Stephen A.

The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption
Quinton Dixie and Cornel West, editors

Websites

African American Underrepresentation in Intercultural Missions Doctoral Dissertation by James Sutherland

The Reconciliation Network Lots of Resources on African American Missions

Mission Frontiers Magazine, April 2000 Special Issue on African American Missions

Lott Carey's Legacy Article on How Africans and African Americans today are following Carey's lead

 
 

"All authority in heaven and on earth has been give to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Matthew 28:19,20 (NIV)

 
 

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