by Paul Hobson | May 8, 2014 | News, Opinion
The rich 200-year association between Jamaican and British Baptists will be marked by a series of events this year. The links began when Jamaica invited British missionaries, such as John Rowe, to support the growth they were experiencing under George Liele, a freed...
by Eleazar Ziherambere | Mar 11, 2014 | Opinion
As American Baptist International Ministries (IM) celebrates 200 years of mission, my attention turns to the presence of African-Americans on the mission field. I can’t help but lament that, even though African-Americans represent 12 percent of the United...
by Noel Erskine | Feb 27, 2014 | Opinion
The name, William Carey, is well known as he founded the Baptist Missionary Society and preached his inaugural sermon in 1793. What is not equally well known is that another Baptist, George Liele, began his mission work in Jamaica 10 years earlier. He arrived in...
by David Kerrigan | Jul 17, 2009 | Opinion
Baptists have a reputation for being a missionary people. And that activism surely flows from the radical commitment of the early Baptists to the lordship of Jesus Christ and a fresh engagement with scripture. Peering through nearly 1,600 years of ecclesiastical...
