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MISSION AGENCY | Spring 2017 CELEBRATING RACIAL ETHNIC MISSION PRESBYTERIAN MISSION AGENCY | Spring 2017 CELEBRATING RACIAL ETHNIC MISSION pcusa.org/missioncrossroads African-Americans bless the mission of God | Discerning God’s call to mission | Mission at our doorstep Mission Crossroads is a Presbyterian AT THE CROSSROADS | Tony De La Rosa, interim executive director Presbyterian Mission Agency Mission Agency publication about God’s mission around the world through the PC(USA) and our Celebrating racial ethnic contributions to transformative mission church partners. Presbyterian World Mission is n the following committed to sending mission pages, you’ll catch personnel, empowering the a glimpse of the global church, and equipping the Orich legacy and continuing Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) service of racial ethnic mission for mission as together we workers—men and women address the root causes of of color called to love God poverty, work for reconciliation and love their neighbors at amid cultures of violence, and home and abroad. Since the share the good news of God’s saving beginning of Presbyterian love through Jesus Christ. international mission 180 EDITOR years ago, these and other Kathy Melvin Presbyterian Christians have paved the way for mission CONTENT MANAGER from the U.S. to the ends of the Rachel Yates earth, and from the ends of the earth to the U.S. Their unique perspectives have helped transform the church from colonial mission to mission in partnership, the missio dei—the mission of God. PROJECT MANAGER While we’ve changed our mission practice over the years, what has not changed is the Tammy Warren 180-degree transformation of faithful mission servants who encounter Christ and accept the urgent call to share God’s love with others throughout the world. We give thanks to God for their STAY CONNECTED calling and commitment, and we give thanks to you for your ongoing prayers and support of them To subscribe or change your and their ministries. mailing address, contact development. [email protected] Mienda Uriarte or call 800-728-7228. To request additional free copies of Mission Crossroads, email [email protected] or call 800-728-7228 x5065. SUPPORT WORLD MISSION Give online/phone: pcusa.org/supportwm 800-728-7228 Mail checks, payable to PC(USA): Presbyterian World Mission P.O. Box 643700 Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700 On the cover: Mission co-worker Leisa Wagstaff discusses clean water at a school in South Sudan. Photo by Sharon Kandel Tony De La Rosa and Presbyterian Mission Agency team members get a firsthand look at rebuilding efforts in the Philippines three years after Typhoon Haiyan. Mission Crossroads 1 STEWARDSHIP MATTERS | Rosemary Mitchell A holistic witness Early African-American missionaries bravely spoke out for justice t an early age, I learned that Christ a Westerner. He immersed himself in the is concerned about every aspect of culture, built relationships and preached Our church is a more vital witness human life. This core tenet of the the gospel everywhere he went. AReformed faith motivated people like John In 1899 Sheppard’s ministry took because this African-American Witherspoon, a Presbyterian minister and a different turn. He became alarmed man [William Sheppard], born in college president who was instrumental in at the exploitation of the Congolese Waynesboro, Virginia, just weeks our country’s founding, and Eugene Carson by Leopold. The king used Congolese before the end of the Civil War, Blake, a General Assembly stated clerk soldiers to enslave other Congolese, who answered God’s call to mission. who played a strategic and prophetic role were then forced to harvest rubber and in the Civil Rights movement. Our society build railroads. Many of the captives and our Presbyterian witness still benefit perished, and horrific atrocities were from the contributions of Witherspoon committed against those who dared to call to mission. His example no doubt and Blake and countless others who have rebel. Sheppard and another missionary, helped pave the way for other racial-ethnic followed God’s call to shape a world William Morrison, documented the people to follow God’s call to mission consistent with gospel values. Indeed, every brutalities and wrote about them in service. region of the globe has been touched by the Presbyterian publications. Their work Today mission co-workers of various good and faithful work of Presbyterians. drew international attention to the races and ethnicities serve at the invitation I have come to a greater appreciation situation, and eventually Leopold’s rule of global partners in ministries of poverty of the international reach of was revoked by the Belgian Parliament. alleviation, evangelism and reconciliation. Presbyterians since I started working Congo became a Belgian colony and Informed by our Reformed theology, for the Presbyterian Mission Agency. remained so until its independence in our mission co-workers bear witness to For example, I have learned about 1960. a gospel that addresses the needs of the the ministry of William Sheppard, a Sheppard and his wife, Lucy, whom whole person. It is a ministry of the whole Presbyterian missionary who in the early he married in 1894 while on furlough, church, a life-transforming ministry that 20th century made a powerful statement left Congo in 1910. Two years later, he is possible because of the faithful support for justice in Africa. One of the first became pastor of Grace Presbyterian of people like you. African-American missionaries sent to Church in Louisville, Kentucky, where he serve in Africa, Sheppard and his white served until his death in 1927. A newly Rosemary Mitchell is senior director of colleague, Samuel Lapsley, arrived in revitalized affordable housing community, Mission Engagement and Support at the Congo in 1890 and established a mission located less than two miles from the Presbyterian Mission Agency. Contact her in the village of Luebo. It was the first Presbyterian Center, has borne his name at [email protected]. Presbyterian mission in Congo, which since its original construction in 1941. was then the personal property of King The world is a better place today Leopold II of Belgium. Lapsley died of a because of the commitment, brilliance fever less than two years after his arrival, and courage of William Sheppard. Our CONTINUE THE LEGACY OF but Sheppard continued alone until church is a more vital witness because WILLIAM SHEPPARD other missionaries arrived. He learned this African-American man, born in Support all mission co-workers. to speak the local language and explored Waynesboro, Virginia, just weeks before pcusa.org/donate/E132192 regions of Congo never before visited by the end of the Civil War, answered God’s Mission Crossroads 1 Decades-long missionary dream begins in Malawi Tammy Warren Tammy Warren Tammy God’s plans and timing are different from ours. Just ask the Rev. Dr. Donna J. Sloan. Donna has packed her luggage, figuratively, more than once to answer God’s call to mission—a call she has felt since she was 9 years old, growing up in Campbell, Ohio. Donna recalls that when a teacher at Campbell Christian Center asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said “I want to be a missionary nurse.” Now in her 70s, Donna has been commissioned by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to teach church history and ethics as a long-term volunteer in Malawi. It is often said that God qualifies the called rather than calling the qualified. After feeling a strong call to mission since age 9, Donna Sloan will begin service early While Donna waited for God’s perfect this year as professor of church history and Christian ethics at Zomba Theological timing to begin mission service, College in southeastern Malawi. she earned a diploma in nursing; a bachelor’s degree in sociology; master’s Throughout her careers as a mission co-worker JoAnn Griffith, who degrees in public health, divinity registered nurse, ordained minister and served in Ethiopia for more than four and theology; and a doctorate in college professor, Donna continued decades. JoAnn’s enthusiasm for mission interdisciplinary arts and sciences to work in New England, California was contagious and caused Donna that focused on the inter-relatedness and Ohio. She also cared for her aging to reflect on her childhood dream of of religion and health. After each parents for many years and taught becoming a missionary. Donna traveled accomplishment, as well as after her philosophy and religious studies at on a short-term mission to Ethiopia ordination as a minister in the late ’80s, Youngstown (Ohio) State University— with JoAnn and was excited to work she thought, “Now I’m ready. God will courses she will also teach during her with the Oromo people, especially send me now.” Each time, however, she two-year mission as a professor at because she had learned through DNA sensed it wasn’t God’s idea of the right Zomba Theological College in South testing that her ancestral heritage on her time. Central Africa. Students of ZTC father’s side is 99.4% from the Oromo represent all five Church of Central people of Ethiopia. Africa Presbyterian synods: Blantyre, That trip prompted Donna to PROVIDE SUPPORT Harare, Livingstonia, Nkhoma and complete an online application for Support Donna’s mission in Malawi. Zambia spread across the countries of mission service at pcusa.org/onedoor. pcusa.org/donate/E074870 Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. She attended an orientation in October A few years ago Donna met retired 2015, initially planning to serve in 2 Spring 2017 Ethiopia. At orientation she learned FAREWELL TO A DEDICATED about the teaching position in Malawi. AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEACHER When she learned the courses she would Retired mission co-worker Sanford Taborn teach at ZTC were the same as she had passed away on November 28, 2016, at age taught in Ohio, she became convinced 68 after a sudden deterioration in his health.
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