This is not an area of great study on my part, so I am welcome to hearing from others on this one. When I was young, the answer was simple... It was Adoniram (and Ann) Judson. They traveled to India under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (a Congregationalist missions entity) in 1812. …
Continue reading Who Was the First American Missionary to Foreign Lands?
About 5 years ago, in 2017, I first learned about George Lisle. Before that I had taught Missions History and I "knew" that the Judsons were the first (major) American international missionaries, and that William Carey was the first Baptist international missionary. But then I found out that a decade before Carey, and before Adoniram …
Continue reading Book Review and Reflections: George Lisle: A Faith that Couldn’t be Denied
I was reading a post from "Wasted Evangelism" on George Leile (or Lisle or Liele or Sharp) (1750–1828). The article is HERE. He was the first American Missionary to serve in another nation... in this case, Jamaica. He was an emancipated slave, who actually sold himself back into slavery (indentured servitude) to be able to …