African Missionary Stories

  african missionary stories: Samuel Morris Lindley Baldwin, 1987-03-01 The extraordinary story of the young African who came to be called The Apostle of Simple Faith.While most missionary biographies detail the lives of Western missionaries, this is the story of the African missionary that God called to the United States when slavery and segregation were a way of life. Previously published under the title The March of Faith, this book details the moving life story of Samuel Morris.After a miraculous escape from certain death during the ravages of intertribal warfare in Liberia, Africa, Kaboo was converted to Christ by Methodist missionaries and baptized under the name Samuel Morris. Traveling to America for pastoral training in the late 1880's, his trip was a missionary voyage in itself when several seamen were lead to Christ through his godly life. At Taylor University his example of faith made him a leader among the students and a challenge to the faulty.An unforgettable biography which shows Christ's love felling all racial barriers.
  african missionary stories: The Good News Must Go Out Rebecca Davis, 2011 From one old woman's prayer a young girl was brought to faith, a missionary was sent to Africa and then a church was born from among the people of Central Africa. Missionaries from the West came with the message of Jesus Christ - but it was the men and women saved from cannibalism, the young boys who herded goats and who carted water who really brought the Good News even farther to more and more villages and homesteads in Africa ... and the Good News must go out. For more background information, as well as links for magazine articles, blogs, photos, and videos, see the Educator Resources Page at Rebecca Davis's website. Additionally, colouring pages are available to download further down this page in associated Media section.
  african missionary stories: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa David Livingstone, 1858
  african missionary stories: A Higher Mission Kimberly D. Hill, 2020-10-15 In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while working as a part of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission—an operation which aimed to support the people of the Congo Free State suffering forced labor and brutal abuses under Belgian colonial governance. They discovered a unique kinship amid the country's growing human rights movement and used their familiarity with industrial education, popularized by Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, as a way to promote Christianity and offer valuable services to local people. From 1902 through 1941, the Edmistons designed their mission projects to promote community building, to value local resources, and to incorporate the perspectives of the African participants. They focused on childcare, teaching, translation, construction, and farming—ministries that required constant communication with their Kuba neighbors. Hill concludes with an analysis of how the Edmistons' pedagogy influenced government-sponsored industrial schools in the Belgian Congo through the 1950s. A Higher Mission illuminates not only the work of African American missionaries—who are often overlooked and under-studied—but also the transnational implications of black education in the South. Significantly, Hill also addresses the role of black foreign missionaries in the early civil rights movement, an argument that suggests an underexamined connection between earlier nineteenth-century Pan-Africanisms and activism in the interwar era.
  african missionary stories: David Livingstone: The Wayward Vagabond in Africa N. Kahende, 2019-06-25 David Livingstone: The Wayward Vagabond in Africa is an expression of doubt about the rason detre concerning the 19th Century explorers and missionaries in Africa. Led by David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary, they are said to have come to civilise backward Africans, which the author creatively re-imagines, arguing that it is far from the truth. Instead, their actions gave impetus to colonialism proper. In this book the omniscient narrator, Everywhere, is Gods special envoy mandated to witness history with far-reaching consequences for humanity. His investigation is to help nail David Livingstone on Judgment Day, much the same way St Peter chronicles events in the Book of Life. Read about how, Everywhere, the spirit rides on wind, walks on water, enters into his characters stream of consciousness and even discerns how they interpret the world around them. The novel retraces Livingstones early life, from his deprived childhood in Blantyre, Scotland; his ideological evolution and training in London and his dramatic sojourn in Monomotapa kingdom, which he half-believes is his destiny. The satirical tone in the novel aptly captures that delusional aspect of Livingstones God-ordained mission to the world.
  african missionary stories: Anansi and the Talking Melon Eric A. Kimmel, 2018-01-01 The expressive male narrator charms the listener by impersonating the characters...Short segments of music and brief sound effects add interest...useful for all reading and listening situations. - Booklist
  african missionary stories: A Living Man from Africa Roger S. Levine, 2010-12-21 Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860s, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.
  african missionary stories: Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857–1891 Femi J. Kolapo, 2019-11-28 In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of the Upper Niger and Confluence area, whose communities were threatened or already conquered by an expanding jihadist Nupe state. In this book, Femi J. Kolapo examines the significance of the mission as an African—rather than European—undertaking, assessing its impact on missionary practice, local engagement, and Christian conversion prospects. By offering a fuller history of this overlooked mission in the history of Christianity in Nigeria, this book reaffirms indigenous agency and rethinks the mission as an experiment ahead of its time.
  african missionary stories: The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya Emma Wild-Wood, 2020 A vivid portrayal of Kivebulaya's life that interrogates the role of indigenous agents as harbingers of change under colonization, and the influence of emerging polities in the practice of Christian faiths.
  african missionary stories: Black Christians and White Missionaries Richard Gray, 2005-07-01 In this book, one of the world's leading scholars on the history of religion in Africa shows how Christianity has been transformed as it has been adopted by black Africans, from the introduction of Christianity in the seventeenth century to the present. Richard Gray finds that Africans have not meekly accepted monolithic Western practices and interpretations but have appropriated Christian faith for specific needs and added to it insights of their own. Gray's theological conclusions are fascinating, and the book forms a useful contribution to the study of missions in Africa.-Eugeniah Adoyo, Theological Book Review Gray's most significant contribution is his essay that compares differing concepts of evil in the cosmologies of Christianity and traditional African religions. This compact, well-written volume has extensive footnotes. It is recommended for specialists, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.-Choice A thoughtful and informative book, well worth reading.-Joseph C. McKenna, Theological Studies Concrete and detailed cases support Gray's lucid account of this transformation in Africa.-Wyatt MacGaffey, American Historical Review The work of a master historian and demonstrates archival detective work and scholarly analysis at its finest. Anyone interested in the introduction and development of Christianity in Africa will find this book particularly valuable.-Roger B. Beck, History: Reviews of New Books Christianity in Africa has too often been written about by those who recognize only its sociological consequences. Gray . . . writes . . . with insights that are not found often enough in studies of black Christians and white (and black) missionaries in Africa, and this is welcome.-M. Louise Pirouet, International Journal of the African Historical Society
  african missionary stories: Lott Carey Leroy Fitts, 1978
  african missionary stories: Sent Forth Kwiyani, Harvey C, 2014-10-10
  african missionary stories: Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, 2015-06-19 Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches analyzes the hagiographic traditions of seven missionary saints in the Syriac heritage during late antiquity: Thomas, Addai, Mari, John of Ephesus, Simeon of Beth Arsham, Jacob Baradaeus, and Ahudemmeh. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent studies a body of legends about the missionariesÕ voyages in the Syrian Orient to illustrate their shared symbols and motifs. Revealing how these texts encapsulated the concerns of the communities that produced them, she draws attention to the role of hagiography as a malleable genre that was well-suited for the idealized presentation of the beginnings of Christian communities. Hagiographers, through their reworking of missionary themes, asserted autonomy, orthodoxy, and apostolicity for their individual civic and monastic communities, positioning themselves in relationship to the rulers of their empires and to competing forms of Christianity. Saint-Laurent argues that missionary hagiography is an important and neglected source for understanding the development of the East and West Syriac ecclesiastical bodies: the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of the East. Given that many of these Syriac-speaking churches remain today in the Middle East and India, with diaspora communities in Europe and North America, this work opens the door for further study of the role of saints and stories as symbolic links between ancient and modern traditions.
  african missionary stories: All That You Can't Leave Behind Ryan J. Murphy, 2007-10-01 Do all missionaries live in grass huts, wear taped glasses, have 13 children, and stutter? My, my, my. You really need to pick up this book. Through personal stories, cultural insights, and perspectives on the mission movement in Africa, Ryan Murphy shares what the missionary life looks like in the 21st century. All That You Cant Leave Behind offers an entertaining bridge into the unknown lands of missions work and challenges you to make a difference in your world for Gods glory.Leave the ordinary. Live the extraordinary.
  african missionary stories: David Livingstone Janet Benge, Geoff Benge, 1999 Each true story in this series by outstanding authors Janet and Geoff Benge is loved by adults and children alike. More Christian Heroes: Then & Now biographies and unit study curriculum guides are coming soon. Fifty-five books are planned, and thousands of families have started their collections! Braving danger and hardship, David Livingstone crisscrossed vast uncharted regions of Africa to open new frontiers and spread the message of the gospel to all who would listen (1813-1873).
  african missionary stories: Angola Beloved T. Wilson, 2007-04 AFRICA, land of mystery . cruelty . fear . darkness . sounds and smells.In the heart of this fascinating continent lies the little-known but much-in-the-news country of Angola. Read of Angola's history, culture and customs, witchcraft, and folklore as well as T. Ernest Wilson's experience with learning a new language, starting indigenous churches, the gospel in the diamond mines, incredible journeys on foot, hardships and joys, frustrations and fruitfulness in the pioneer missions field. This autobiography is told with humor, warmth, and insight from forty year's experience.
  african missionary stories: Africa Missionary Devotional Stories II Stephen Kuert, 2015-01-14 A 21 day devotional based on real-life, personal experiences while living in East Africa over the course of the past 7 years. The stories take place in Burundi, Tanzania, Madagascar, and Kenya involving key missional themes. The author writes in a simple and engaging manner to connect with the reader. It is designed to be an inspirational read challenging every Christ follower to reconnect with Jesus' heartbeat for the nations. Each story contains practical questions to provoke spiritual growth as well as personal musings from the author on each day's lesson.
  african missionary stories: Towards an African Narrative Theology Joseph Healey, 1996 Reflects what traditional proverbs used in Christian catechetical, liturgical, and ritual contexts reveal about Tanzanian appropriations of and interpretations of Christianity.
  african missionary stories: Travels in South Africa John Campbell, 1816
  african missionary stories: Encountering Empire Elisabeth Engel, 2015-09-30 In Encountering Empire, Elisabeth Engel traces how black American missionaries - men and women grappling with their African heritage - established connections in Africa during the heyday of European colonialism. Reconstructing the black American 'colonial encounter,' Engel analyzes the images, transatlantic relationships, and possibilities of representation African American missionaries developed for themselves while negotiating colonial regimes. Between 1900 and 1939, these missionaries paved the way for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest independent black American institution, to establish a presence in Britain's sub-Saharan colonies. Illuminating a neglected chapter of Atlantic history, Engel demonstrates that African Americans used imperial structures for their own self-determination. Encountering Empire thus challenges the notion that pan-Africanism was the only viable strategy for black emancipation.
  african missionary stories: The Missionary Heroes of Africa James Horne Morrison, 2022-10-27 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  african missionary stories: Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa Robert Moffat, 1844
  african missionary stories: Eternal Perspectives Randy Alcorn, 2012 Pulling from such noted authors, scholars, and theologians as C.S. Lewis, Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, Martin Luther, Augustine, Max Lucado, Philip Yancey, and countless others, Eternal Perspectives is the ultimate resource for anyone looking for inspirational quotes and passages on the topic of Heaven.
  african missionary stories: Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa, 1877-1900 Walter L. Williams, 1982
  african missionary stories: Stories from Africa Kerry Lovering, Marjory Koop, Marjorie A. Collins, Doug Driediger, J. Douglas Thompson, 1989 A collection of six missionary stories set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Include pictures for coloring.
  african missionary stories: African Missionary Heroes and Heroines Karl Kumm, 1917
  african missionary stories: British Missionaries and the End of Empire John Stuart, 2011 There are many histories of overseas mission and many histories of the last days of Great Britain s empire in Africa, but there has been no book-length study on the relationship between them until now. In British Missionaries and the End of Empire, historian John Stuart thoroughly and critically examines British Protestant missionary experiences during the tumultuous years between 1939 and 1964 in east, central, and southern Africa. Focusing on Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, and Kenya (with an eye for South African influence on mission affairs), Stuart portrays the uneven and evolving relationship between Protestant missionaries, the British empire, and African nationalists. He shows how missionaries sometimes supported empire, sometimes drew comfort from it, sometimes criticized it, yet finally learned to live with its formal demise, continuing their work in the newly formed African independent states even after the end of empire.
  african missionary stories: The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver, 2005-07-05 The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
  african missionary stories: Some People Go Ryan Porter, Chelsea Porter, 2021-03-10 Some People Go is a children's rhyming book about one family's call to share the Gospel of Christ in a foreign country. Not all people are called to uproot their family and move to a new land, but some are. This is a story of one such family told through the eyes of their young son. Faced with a series of challenges and unknowns, he is also given an opportunity to share his faith seeing that mission work is not just for his parents but for their entire family. This book provides parents with an opportunity to talk with their child about missions, sharing the Gospel, and God's work around the world. Some people go and some people stay, the most important thing is that we obey.
  african missionary stories: Scenes and Services in South Africa. The Story of Robert Moffat's Half-century of Missionary Labours. With Numerous Illustrations Robert MOFFAT (Missionary), 1876
  african missionary stories: Mary Slessor of Calabar W. P. Livingstone, 2018-08-24 A pioneering woman missionary hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, Mary Slessor's journey to Nigeria set an example to all Christian missions; she gained the trust, respect and thanks of the local peoples, and introduced the gospel of Christ. Most notably from a social viewpoint, Slessor managed to convince the Ibibio tribespeople of southern Nigeria to cease killing infants who were twins. The tribes of the region held a belief that one of two twins is an evil spirit; to be certain the spirit was vanquished, both babies would be left to die of exposure in the countryside. Appalled at this practice, Mary Slessor found, rescued and adopted many twins - seeing that the babies grew up to be healthy children, the tribes repented and ceased the abysmal practice. In the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, women's rights were inferior to those of men. Mary Slessor used her public profile to support the women's suffrage movement which argued for political enfranchisement.
  african missionary stories: Jesus and the Gospel in Africa Kwame Bediako, 2004 Jesus and the Gospel in Africa collects writings by Kwame Bediako and is the best source for his insights into the Christ of present-day African history and the Jesus of African faith. Bediako shows how intimately bound together are such elements as the message of Jesus and the struggle to give birth to African democracy. --Book Jacket.
  african missionary stories: West African Christianity Lamin O. Sanneh, 1983
  african missionary stories: History of the Church in Africa Jonathan Hildebrandt, 2001
  african missionary stories: Which None Can Shut Reema Goode, 2010 A collection of personal stories from a Christian and her family living in an Muslim community on the Arabian Peninsula. She tells of everyday life in a Muslim town, and how the gospel of Jesus is reaching her neighbors.
  african missionary stories: Dado; or, Stories of native life in East Africa William Yates (novelist.), 1886
  african missionary stories: Africa for the African Harry W. Langworthy, Joseph Booth, 1996 Missionaries have often been accused of being hand in glove with colonialism. If this may be true for many, it is definitely not true for Joseph Booth, who published in 1897 his book Africa for the African and two years later demanded independence for Malawi before 1920. Without him, the pacifist, the 1915 Chilembwe Rising in Malawi would not have been possible, and seven major churches in Malawi would not exist without him, either. Based on a careful and extensive study of the primary sources in three continents the book tells the story of the maverick missionary in Malawi, South Africa and Lesotho and of his efforts to find support in Australia, Britain and in the United States of America.
  african missionary stories: Uniquely African? James Leland Cox, Gerrie ter Haar, 2003 Concerning themselves with the problematic nature of African Christian identity, the contributors to this book adopt various cultural, historical, national and educational perspectives in order to reflect on the problem of African identities in a world dominated by Western ideological and religious systems.
  african missionary stories: Mary Slessor Terri B. Kelly, 2013 Mary Slessor was a missionary woman from Scotland who relied on God's will and power to overcome hardship and danger to be a missionary in Africa for thirty-nine years--
  african missionary stories: Jesus in Africa Kwame Bediako, 2000
Africa - Wikipedia
African nations cooperate through the establishment of the African Union, which is headquartered in Addis Ababa. Africa is highly biodiverse; [17] it is the continent with the largest number of …

Africa | History, People, Countries, Regions, Map, & Facts | Britannica
5 days ago · African regions are treated under the titles Central Africa, eastern Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and western Africa; these articles also contain the principal treatment …

Map of Africa | List of African Countries Alphabetically - World Maps
Africa is the second largest and most populous continent in the world after Asia. The area of Africa without islands is 11.3 million square miles (29.2 million sq km), with islands - about …

The 54 Countries in Africa in Alphabetical Order
May 14, 2025 · Here is the alphabetical list of the African country names with their capitals. We have also included the countries’ regions, the international standard for country codes (ISO …

Africa - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
African independence movements had their first success in 1951, when Libya became the first former colony to become independent. Modern African history is full of revolutions and wars , …

Africa: Countries and Sub-Saharan Africa - HISTORY
African History Africa is a large and diverse continent that extends from South Africa northward to the Mediterranean Sea. The continent makes up one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth.

Africa Map: Regions, Geography, Facts & Figures | Infoplease
What Are the Big 3 African Countries? Three of the largest and most influential countries in Africa are Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with a …

Africa - New World Encyclopedia
Since the end of colonial status, African states have frequently been hampered by instability, corruption, violence, and authoritarianism. The vast majority of African nations are republics …

Africa Map / Map of Africa - Worldatlas.com
Africa, the planet's 2nd largest continent and the second most-populous continent (after Asia) includes (54) individual countries, and Western Sahara, a member state of the African Union …

Africa: Human Geography - Education
Jun 4, 2025 · Cultural Geography Historic Cultures The African continent has a unique place in human history. Widely believed to be the “cradle of humankind,” Africa is the only continent …

Africa - Wikipedia
African nations cooperate through the establishment of the African Union, which is headquartered in Addis Ababa. Africa is highly biodiverse; [17] it is the continent with the largest number of …

Africa | History, People, Countries, Regions, Map, & Fa…
5 days ago · African regions are treated under the titles Central Africa, eastern Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and western Africa; these articles also contain the principal treatment of …

Map of Africa | List of African Countries Alphabetically - Wo…
Africa is the second largest and most populous continent in the world after Asia. The area of Africa without islands is 11.3 million square miles (29.2 million sq km), with islands - about …

The 54 Countries in Africa in Alphabetical Order
May 14, 2025 · Here is the alphabetical list of the African country names with their capitals. We have also included the countries’ regions, the international standard for country codes (ISO …

Africa - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclope…
African independence movements had their first success in 1951, when Libya became the first former colony to become independent. Modern African history is full of revolutions and …