Maybe you already know this, but I just found out and am amazed. We often say that Adoniram Judson was the first foreign missionary from America. Turns out George Liele beat him by nearly twenty years.
George was a slave, then not a slave, one of the first African Americans ordained in America, convened the first black church in America, and went to Jamaica to preach to slaves there in 1783, becoming (arguably) the first missionary to go out from America. Amazing.
Read more of George’s story and look for a chance to tell one person about him this week.
— Shane Bennett