Africa

The ministry of American Baptist International Ministries in Africa began in 1819 with the appointment of Lott Carey as missionary to Liberia. Carey was a former slave who bought his own freedom. He had begun his work in Liberia in 1816 with the support of African American Baptists in Richmond, VA. He was accompanied to Liberia by Colin Teague, also a former slave. In 1884 we started working in the Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) taking on the work begun in 1873 by the Livingston Inland Mission, an evangelical mission from Britain.

Today, International Ministries serves 17 long-term missionaries, who work with 28 partners in 19 countries.

Countries