Brittany Gardner serves as the African American Engagement Coordinator for the missions agency SIM USA. In that capacity she seeks to engage, educate and equip African-American Christians and churches to fulfill the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20). She discusses her work and the current state of African-American participation in global missions.
Note of correction from Brittany: “I mentioned that it wasn’t until the mid-1980s that SIM USA’s bylaws were updated to include African Americans, but the policy to begin allowing persons who were not white to join SIM on a provisional basis was passed by SIM’s General Council in 1957. In 1966, following the United States government’s passing of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, General Council officially lifted all restrictions for membership based on race or nationality. SIM, through its Canadian office, accepted the mission’s first members of African descent as full members in 1969; these were Ken and Mervina Sharp and their children who went to Nigeria. In 1981, SIM USA sent Curtis and Opal Hayes to Liberia as its first long-term African American missionaries.
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