His owner, John Bowry, a Methodist minister, hired him out to a Richmond to***co firm. He purchased his freedom and became a Baptist Minister in 1813 and then founded the African Missionary Society in 1815. Lott Carey sailed for Africa in 1821 as the continent’s first African-American Missionary and established Providence Baptist Church in Monrovia, Liberia and several schools. As a political and
military leader, Lott Carey helped Liberia survive as a colony of free American blacks. He died there in November 1828. The Lott Carey movement was founded in 1897 by African-American Baptists who were committed to a substantial foreign mission thrust – especially on the African continent. They believed that nothing should distract the church from executing its primary objective of advancing God’s mission throughout the world. Since the founding, Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention has single-mindedly invested in Christian missions around the world. The Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission came to India in 1936, when Miss Dorothy Moses, an outstanding social worker, began the work in Calcutta. Miss Moses introduced Rev. John Nelson to the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention and the work in Delhi began with the establishment of a Church in 1949. The Lott Carey Baptist Mission in India was registered as a society in November 1962 with an aim to provide free medical aid to leprosy patients, train them for various jobs and to provide education to their children. Over the years, this service has also been extended to other poor, needy and under-privileged people. The Mission has also established exemplary schools to provide value-based education every child, regardless of their caste, colour and creed. The Mission is affiliated to the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, U.S.A. and has been working in and around Delhi from 1947 onwards. The current India Superintendent of the Mission is Mr.
