The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church

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.

The Author: Horace O. Russell was born in Jamaica, West Indies. Formerly President of the United Theological College of the West Indies, Jamaica, and Vice-Moderator of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, Professor Russell is now Dean of Chapel and Professor of Historical Theology at The Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His previously published books are Baptist Witness and Foundations and Anticipations.