November 3, 2022
A Mission Immersion Pilgrimage to Africa is underway from November 2-11.
Dubbed a “Walk in the footsteps of Rev. Lott Carey in the Motherland,” it commemorates and celebrates the 200th anniversary of Rev. Carey’s mission to the continent.
The delegation of 31 persons includes Lott Carey President Dr. Gina Stewart, former president, Rev. Gregory Jackson, Women In Service Everywhere President Dr. Angelita Clifton, other Lott Carey leaders, and several pastors.
They will make stops in Ghana and Liberia.
The Rev. Lott Carey led a group of formerly enslaved African Americans to West Africa, arriving in what is now Liberia in 1822. He played a key role in the founding of that nation, Africa’s first republic.
In Liberia, pilgrims will explore Providence Island where Rev. Carey landed in early 1822. They will worship at Providence Baptist Church in Monrovia, the second oldest Baptist church in Africa, which was founded by Rev. Carey; visit and interact with students at the two campuses of the Lott Carey Mission Schools; and visit and worship with students at the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary, among other activities.
Ghana is the ancestral home of many persons of African descent in the Americas and holds important historical landmarks of interest to persons of the African diaspora.
While in Ghana, pilgrims will visit Independence Square, the W.E. B. Dubois Center, and the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.
A highlight will be the trip to the Assin Manso Slave River and the slave castles in Cape Coast and Elmina. Assin Manso and the slave castles are infamous for their roles in the trade of enslaved Africans before their arduous and traumatic journey to North America, South America, and the Caribbean.
“We expect that this journey into the past will bring home to us the love and sacrifice of those who walked this journey before us,” said Lott Carey Executive Secretary-Treasurer Rev. Emmett Dunn.
“As we take this journey, we draw strength for the work to which God has called us as we build a better world through Christian mission,” declared Rev. Dunn, who was born in Liberia and was baptized at the historic Providence Baptist Church.
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