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In honor of Black History Month, here are significant mission events that happened on these dates in February involving African-Americans. These are just a few examples of what people of one racial background are doing to fulfill the Great Commission.
Betsey Stockton, a young black woman in company with 13 white missionaries, was on board a ship rounding the southern tip of South America. Those missionaries were on their way to the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii). They had left New Haven, Connecticut in November, having been sent by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, an agency at the forefront of American Protestantism’s burgeoning interest in foreign missions. Betsey Stockton was in the second group of missionaries to go to Hawaii, the first having gone two years before. Besides Stockton, this second group included six couples and a single man, plus three Hawaiian men and a Tahitian. The trip took five months by sea with no stopovers. Like several others on board, Stockton kept a journal of the voyage and of her first couple of months in Hawaii. She had joined the company partly as a missionary and partly as a servant to one of the couples, Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Stewart, who were expecting a child. However, Betsey’s contract with the American Board did make clear that she was not to be simply a servant but was also to share in the mission’s primary work.
During a morning devotional hour at Central Texas College in Waco, a teacher, Eliza George, had a vision of black Africans passing before the judgment seat of Christ. Weeping and moaning, many of them were saying to Him, “No one ever told us You died for us.” A few years earlier, while a student at Guadalupe College, Eliza George had responded to an invitation for volunteer missionary service. Now, she felt a vision was prodding her to go to Africa. The Central Texas College president tried to dissuade her: “Don’t let yourself get carried away by that foolishness. You don’t have to go over there to be a missionary — we have enough Africa over here.” It would be two more years before Eliza George got up enough courage to leave her teaching position and head to Liberia. In her resignation speech, she read an original poem: “My African brother is calling me; Hark! Hark! I hear his voice . . . Would you say stay when God said go ?” On December 12, 1913, Eliza George sailed from New York as a National Baptist missionary.
John Marrant, a free black from New York City, preached at Green’s Harbour, Newfoundland, from 2 Corinthians 13:5 to “a great number of Indians and white people.” Marrant’s ministry was cross-cultural with most of it being to Native Americans (or First Nations as they are often called in Canada). He eventually carried the gospel to the Cherokee, Creek, Catawar, and Housaw tribes.
Evangelist and missionary Amanda Berry Smith (1837-1915) was in Africa after having spent some time in India. In her journal entry for this particular day she wrote: “Second Gospel Temperance meeting. Surely the Spirit of the Lord is with us, and He is blessing us greatly. Not so much liberty in speaking, but God is with us, and we are expecting great things. Oh, Lord, for Jesus ‘ sake, answer prayer, and send us the Holy Ghost to quicken and revive us.”
In a service commemorating fifty years of Congregational missions in Angola, the Galangue mission choir, under the leadership of Bessie McDowell, introduced a new song. It is Bessie’s own Ovimbundu translation of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.” African-Americans called “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” — which had been composed in 1900 by the brothers James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson — the “Negro National Anthem.” On this date, February 7, Henry Curtis McDowell, Bessie’s husband, wrote to African-American supporters to say that “Galangue has made the first step, so far as I know, in making ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing’ the international anthem.” The McDowells had gone to Angola in 1917.
African-American Robert Hill had been appointed to accompany some white missionaries to Africa for the purpose of assisting them. On December 17, 1846, they had sailed for the coast of Africa, from Providence, Rhode Island. On this day, February 8, they arrived in Monrovia, Liberia.
Around this time Moses Henkle becomes acquainted with what John Stewart, “Man of Color,” was doing to found a mission among the Wyandott Indians near Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Stewart, the first Methodist missionary to the Indians, had been converted in 1815 while drunk in a Methodist meeting in Ohio. Henkle’s work with Stewart gave credibility to Stewart’s ministry. The resulting publicity led to the organization of a Methodist missionary society in 1819 in New York City.
Presbyterian minister Henry Garnet becomes the first African American to preach a sermon to the U.S. House of Representatives. Born into slavery in Maryland in 1815, Garnet escaped to New England with his father when he was nine years old. In 1852 Garnet went to Jamaica as a Presbyterian missionary. Ill health forced his return to the U.S. in 1855 where he became very active in the abolitionist movement.
One hundred and five black emigrants from the U.S. arrive in Liberia on the ship Cyrus. They were received by Lott Cary and Colin Teague who had arrived three years earlier to begin an era of missionary expansion by American Negro Baptists. They were the first missionaries sent out by a black group, the Richmond African Baptist Missionary Society .
Birth of Richard Allen, founder in 1816 of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination. By 1886, the Church was the world’s largest denomination of African Americans. It had more than four hundred thousand members, nearly three thousand ordained ministers, more than three thousand church buildings, and had sent missionaries to Haiti, San Domingo, and Africa. In 1893 AME headquarters received a request from a group of Afro-Cubans to send missionaries to their island.
Death of John Day (born: 1797), Southern Baptist missionary to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Central Africa as well as one of the founding fathers of the country of Liberia. During his thirteen years in Africa, Day estimated he had preached to about 10,000 “heathen.”
About this date, Jamaican-born Montrose Waite received a letter from the Christian and Missionary Alliance mission board saying they wanted to send him as a missionary to Africa. Waite had won the battle against prejudice and rejection and even friends who urged him to the stay in the U.S., his adopted country. Waite would serve as a missionary in Sierra Leone and Liberia and would be instrumental in the founding of the Afro-American Missionary Crusade (1947) and the Carver Foreign Missions organization.
Birth of John Day, a “free person of color” who emigrated to Liberia in 1830 as a participant in the American Colonization Movement. In 1836 he became a missionary for the Triennial Convention of the American Baptists. When the Southern Baptist Convention was formed in 1845, its foreign mission board appointed Day as superintendent of Liberian missions, a post he held until his death in 1859. Day was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence of Liberia in 1847. In addition to his missionary work, he became Liberia’s second Supreme Court Justice. His brother Thomas was a well-known cabinet maker in North Carolina.
A heart attack claimed the life of Marilyn Lewis, volunteer at the United States Center for World Mission who helped lay the groundwork for their African American Mobilization Division. A school teacher in Pasadena, CA, Marilyn often spoke of her desire to serve as a missionary in Brazil, reaching the descendants of those who had come from Africa. Just prior to her unexpected death, Marilyn had written a call-to-action article: “Just look at an African-American church today and you can see testimony to our new era: richly decorated, air conditioned sanctuaries with carpeted floors are now quite common. Many drive to church in the latest model cars. Today, instead of working the tables at restaurants, many African Americans own them. God has blessed us. Now it is time for the African American to bless the world in evangelization efforts. In the past many African Americans cried because they could not become involved in missionary work. But now the doors are wide open and we are without excuse.”
Moses Ladejo Stone was ordained into the ministry in the First Baptist Church, Lagos (originally known as American Baptist Church) by William W. Colley. Colley, an African American, is thought to be the person to have served as an appointed missionary of both a white-administered missionary-sending agency and a black-administered missionary-sending agency. Colley began his missionary career in 1875. That year, he was appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board to serve in West Africa as assistant to W. J. David, a white missionary from Mississippi. In November of 1879, Colley returned to the United States convinced that many more blacks should be involved in international missions, especially in Africa. As Colley traveled back and forth across the country, he urged black Baptists to take an independent course in mission work and form their own sending agency. Colley was the primary force in the founding of the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention (BFMC) in 1880.
The foundation of the Baptist Mission in Jamaica had been laid by a few black and “coloured” men who had gone to the island from the United States in 1782. Some of them had been slaves who had been granted liberty by their owners. Some were Christians when they arrived in Jamaica, while others had been converted after their arrival. The most noted were George Lisle (the first ordained black in America), George Lewis, George Gibb and Moses Baker. It was chiefly through the urging of Moses Baker that the English Baptist Missionary Society began missionary work in Jamaica. The first missionary sent from England in response to Baker’s pleas was John Rowe, who landed at Montego Bay, February 23, 1814.
Evangelist George Brown, who established the Heddington mission station in Liberia, reported organizing a church among the Pessah people as a result of converting two tribal leaders — Baopgo and Peter — along with 34 of their people after a “God-palaver.”
By this time William Sheppard, who has been called the “Black Livingstone,” was on his way to the Congo on the steamship Adriatic as a Presbyterian missionary. Sheppard was sailing with white missionary Sam Lapsley.
The birth of Peter Claver in 1581 in Spain. Claver became known as “Slave of the Blacks” and “Slave of the Slaves.” A farmer’s son from Verdu in Catalonia, Claver studied at the University of Barcelona. At age 20, he became a Jesuit priest. Influenced by Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, Claver went to South America as a missionary. He ministered to African slaves physically and spiritually when they arrived in Cartegena, Colombia. It is estimated by some that Claver converted 300,000 African slaves to Christianity. For 40 years he worked for humane treatment on the plantations. Claver organized charitable societies among the Spanish in America similar to those organized in Europe by Vincent de Paul. Claver said of the slaves, “We must speak to them with our hands by giving before we try to speak to them with our lips.” Peter Claver died on September 8, 1654 at Cartegena, Colombia of natural causes.
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In this Thursay, Feb. 13, 2020 photo released by the Utah County Sheriff's Office shows suspect Malachi West, 20, of Payson, Utah. Authorities are investigating an attack on a black missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a possible hate crime. The suspects, Malachi Bay West, 20, and Sebastian West, 19, not seen, were in custody but had not yet been charged as of Friday, afternoon. Neither has an attorney listed. (Utah County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Two men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault, and charging documents show hate crime is under consideration. The NAACP expressed outrage about what allegedly happened and church officials said they are concerned about the incident.
The victim and his missionary companion were preparing to go to a house of people they were going to teach Jan. 28 in the central Utah city of Payson when they encountered six people wearing dark hoodies, charging documents show.
The assailants shouted a racial slur at the victim, who is Panamian, and told him to get out of their “hood,” he told police. They threw his cellphone on the ground, threatened his mother and called him a “church boy” before punching him in the head and face and kicking him, the document shows.
The victim fought back and eventually freed himself. His prescription glasses were broken during the incident.
Police say the victim's white missionary companion was not targeted during the attack. Like all missionaries for the faith, widely known as the Mormon church, the men wore white shirts and ties with clearly visible name tags identifying them as church missionaries.
The suspects — Sebastian West, 19, and Malachi Bay West, 20 — were in custody but had not yet been charged as of Friday afternoon. Neither has an attorney listed.
Payson is a city of 20,000 people about 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City.
The NAACP wants all six people to be charged with hate crimes, said Jeanetta Williams, president of the organization's Tri-State Conference of Idaho, Nevada and Utah.
“The NAACP is outraged over the hate crime that occurred in Payson between six individuals that targeted a Black Panamanian missionary because of the color of his skin,” Williams said in a statement. “We are alarmed about the physical assault and destruction of personal property.”
It's unknown why the other four people have not been arrested. A phone message left with Payson police was not immediately returned.
The Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said they appreciate the efforts of law enforcement and are providing support to the victim.
“We are concerned about what happened to two of our missionaries serving in Payson, Utah, in January and are grateful they escaped serious harm,” said church spokesman Daniel Woodruff.
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A Virginia missionary was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Monday for sexually abusing Haitian children, Virginia’s NBC’s 10 reports.
Officials said that 40-year-old James Arbaugh would “befriend and groom children” in Haiti during his over 10-year stay in the country, per the report.
“James Arbaugh was a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski. “He posed as a selfless missionary when in reality he was exploiting his position to prey on and sexually abuse vulnerable children in one of the most impoverished areas of the world.”
According to the news outlet, Arbaugh was arrested in November after he confessed to a counselor that he had sexual contact with Haitian kids.
Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of traveling in foreign commerce from the U.S. to Haiti to partake in sexual conduct with kids, according to NBC 10.
He reportedly groomed and sexually abused at least 21 Haitian boys, according to a federal affidavit.
“Today’s sentencing is a testament to the unwavering commitment of our prosecutors and law enforcement partners to hold sexual predators like Arbaugh accountable for their deplorable crimes,” Benczkowski said, according to The Independent.
Arbaugh, a Mennonite missionary who worked for Walking Together for Christ, was charged in the U.S. District Court in Western Virginia.
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