Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church: Jamaican Baptist Missions to West Africa in the Nineteenth Century SYNOPSIS
The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church is the story of Jamaican Baptists, ex-slaves who, four years after Emancipation (1838), established a witness in the Cameroons (West Africa) in cooperation with their British pastors and with the reluctant aid of the Baptist Missionary Society of London. Professor Russell analyzes the relationship between the undertaking of the mission and the new self-awareness of a freed people. The institutions created to achieve their aims are discussed and their fortunes are followed amid the chaotic ecclesiastical, economic, and political happenings consequent upon the Anglo/Hispanic rivalry at the time. The book is also a study of what happens when a mission-field becomes a mission agency with missionaries of its own.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Dr. Horace O. Russell and I served on the same theological faculty for many years. He has shared with me often his exceptional knowledge regarding the mission from the West Indies to West Africa. I am pleased that he is now releasing this valuable information to the reading public. This work is a valuable read. (J. Deotis Roberts, Research Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School) — J. Deotis Roberts
Christian mission in the twenty-first century will be 'mission from below.' Its base will be in the Southern continents and it will be carried on through new global partnerships. This fascinating study about Christian mission in Jamaica and from Jamaica to Africa during the last century, provides valuable clues and warnings to figure out the future. Horace Russell has condensed years of careful and painstaking research and wise interpretation in the study, which is indispensable reading for anyone interested in Christian mission in Africa and the Caribbean.
(J. Samuel Escobar, Thornley B. Wood Professor of Missionology Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, PA)
— J. Samuel Escobar
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