This devotional is part of the Black Missionary Heroes Past and Present Series.
Read Luke 10:1–2
Bishop Dennis Smith is a missions trainer, international conference speaker, and oversees a fellowship of churches in Uganda. Smith coaches and mentors new pastors on how to raise healthy and vibrant churches with a missions DNA through discipleship, technology, and counseling.
This year, the theme for our annual conference is Counting the Cost. To accompany this theme we put together a 40-day devotional series that explores this theme.
In Nigeria, I’ve been surprised at the number of people who have said to me, “You are the first black missionary we’ve ever seen. Aren’t black people in America Christians? Or, “Please tell more black missionaries to come.”
In Nigeria, I’ve been surprised at the number of people who have said to me, “You are the first black missionary we’ve ever seen. Aren’t black people in America Christians? Or, “Please tell more black missionaries to come.”
THE WORLD IS OVERRUN with technology!” When it comes to missions, is that good or bad, helpful or harmful, God-ordained or devil-inspired? My goal in this article is to help us answer three important questions: What is technology? What do God and the Bible say about technology? and In the case of missions, is technology culturally neutral—why or why not?
At the InterVarsity Urbana 70 missionary conference, George Taylor chided missions because “very, very few” black Christians are represented on mission fields.
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