The Lord’s hand was on her story-onĪnd his hand was on my story, in all of the ways it intersected with Maria’s.

Maria’s story was my gateway into countless other stories of Black female missionaries who spent their lives sharing the Gospel of Christ in distant lands. While their own homeland saw them as less than human-less worthy of protection, less worthy of rights-they used what resources they had to bring the message of their citizenship in heaven. More than eighty Black women who-from the height of chattel slavery to the birth of the Jim Crow south-undertook the incredible journey and responsibility of bringing the Gospel to foreign lands. On one list alone, I found more than eighty. Would there be ten names I had never heard of? Twenty? Fifty? While I was learning about Maria Fearing, I took a deep dive into the Black women who had served as missionaries throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. PURCHASE LINKS*: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | IndieBound | Christianbook | BookBubĬhapter 6 – “Mother from Far Away: Maria Fearing” from Carved in Ebony by Jasmine Holmes

Carved in Ebony will take you past the predominately white, male contributions that seemingly dominate history books to discover how Black women have been some of the main figures in defining the landscape of American history and faith.Ĭome along on Jasmine’s journey and be encouraged by the powerful and persuasive Black women of our past so that you can help inspire a better, more inclusive future. Through the lives of Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Amanda Berry Smith, Mamie Till, and others, author and speaker Jasmine Holmes shares the significant role that Black women have played in the formation of our faith–and are playing in our formation as modern-day women of faith.Īs these historical figures take the stage with Holmes, you will be inspired by what the stories of these women can teach us about education, birth, privilege, and so much more.

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